[tex-live] porting a TeXLive-Installation to another PC
Lars Madsen
daleif at imf.au.dk
Sun Nov 23 19:47:36 CET 2008
Andreas Hirsch wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm teaching a LaTeX-course at school and (as always) there are some
> problems for the kids to get TeX running at home.
>
> In special, some of my pupils have no or a bad internet-connection.
>
> I've downloaded the iso - but this is freezed as of august 2008.
>
> Is ist possible to copy an up-to-date installation of TeXLive to another
> PC? Is changing the PATH-Variable enough for runnig?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andreas
>
if it is linux there is no problem at all (just make a copy, on Linux
TeXLive does not integrate it self into the system).
For MAC I would assume you could do the same.
On windows we need a little more. I would assume that you can copy a
LaTeX dist from one windows to another, but you also need the system
integration, aka adding the PATH to the system, adding stuff to Start ->
programmes.
I'd really like to have such a tool as well. A student organisation at
the uni where I work had a LaTeX insall party and installed TeXLive on
all systems (Linux, MAC and Windows) and it takes FOREVER. (they has
burned the ISO and was running the installation from DVD).
Later we found out that it was bit faster to copy the contents of the
iso to disk and install from there.
But why not simply start by having a fully updated TeXLive on a linux
system including the windows binaries. Copy this (compressed?) to a USB
stick. Copy it onto a windows in say C:/program files/texlive/2008/ and
then run some extra windows script that takes care of the system
integration.
I would think that this is not that had, we just have to dissect the
Windows installer. But I'm no windows programmer.
Such a tool would make install parties a lot easier, and would help in
other batch installing situations.
--
/daleif
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