[tex-live] Installing latest TeX Live on Ubuntu

[Alick Zhao]

于 2012年02月27日 08:50, Bob Plantz 写道:
> On 2/26/2012 4:30 PM, John Minter wrote:
>> Many of the posters have given you excellent advice. Might I suggest
>> one more consideration - how you have your disk partitioned. On
>> packages like TeXlive, I like to plan installs that make OS upgrades
>> less of a problem. Many system packages write to /usr/local, so I
>> don't usually install my custom packages there. Sometimes packages you
>> want to install depend on the older system TeX package, so the safest
>> thing to do is find another directory where you can install your
>> shared packages that the system won't over-write. I usually create a
>> partition for / and one for /home. Then, when I reinstall the OS, I
>> can reformat the / partition and leave the /home partition with all
>> the data in place. Accordingly, I create a /home/shared directory and
>> make it read-write accessible by my user account. I then install
>> TeXlive in /home/shared/texlive and set environment variables as
>> others have mentioned. Of course I have /home/shared/bin and
>> /home/shared/scripts for all those binaries and shared scripts that
>> don't warrant an individual folder. This practice has made my life
>> easier over several OS upgrades. Your mileage may vary...
>>
>> Best regards,
>> John
> I use the same partitioning scheme and would also like to install the
> latest TexLive. But this leads to a question: What happens if I install
> another program from the Ubuntu repositories that depends on TexLive?
> It, of course, insists that the TexLive version from the Ubuntu
> repositories (TL 2009) be installed. Should one install both versions of
> TexLive? Or is there a way to satisfy the deb dependency requirements
> using the "local" install of TexLive (TL 2011)?
>
> (I apologize to the OP if this is too far off the topic of your original
> post, but I have encountered this issue and did not know what to do.)
>

You can try to create a dummy package to trick the apt. Some explanation
can be found at [1]. Some other solutions can also be found there.

[1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/29918/how-to-trick-apt-dependencies