[tex-live] Installing latest TeX Live on Ubuntu

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/2/27 Axel E. Retif <axel.retif at mac.com>:
> On 02/27/2012 04:58 AM, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
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>> In order to be precise, TL honours symlinks. Consider you install TL
>> 2007 to /usr/local/texlive/2007...
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> Thank you again for this additional data. I'll take all these advices into
> account when I get a new machine. Maybe I will make a partition for TeXLive,
> big enough to hold my safety nets and thus avoid the untaring time (I do
> occasional taring of the texlive directory anyway, as TeX is the main tool
> of my work).
>
Now with LVM the partition can be enlarged if you can get some space
by making another partition smaller. I did it on some of my computers.
>
> Best
>
> Axel



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