[tex-live] New installer GUI

Siep Kroonenberg siepo at bitmuis.nl
Wed Nov 21 11:54:49 CET 2018


On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 10:45:26AM +0000, Philip Taylor wrote:
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>     <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Norbert Preining wrote:<br>
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>       <pre wrap="">Phil,
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> AFAIR the default GUI on Windows is the wizard installer which does not exhibit any variable but the base location.
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>     Quite probably true, and is almost certainly the reason why I have
>     never used it.  After all, why do I never use LaTeX ?  Because it
>     does its d at mndest to hide from me the true power of raw TeX.<br>
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>     <pre wrap="">Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
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>       <pre wrap="">The good reason is reducing clutter.
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> Well, one man's (or woman's) clutter is another man's life-support kit ...
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VThen I really urge you to use the text-mode installer. There, you
can configure even more subdirectories:

===============================================================================
Directories customization:

 <1> TEXDIR:       /usr/local/texlive/2018
     support tree: /usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist

 <2> TEXMFLOCAL:     /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
 <3> TEXMFSYSVAR:    /usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-var
 <4> TEXMFSYSCONFIG: /usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-config

 <5> TEXMFVAR:       ~/.texlive2018/texmf-var
 <6> TEXMFCONFIG:    ~/.texlive2018/texmf-config
 <7> TEXMFHOME:      ~/texmf

 Note: ~ will expand to $HOME (or to %USERPROFILE% on Windows)

See how much raw power you have been denying yourself by using a GUI
installer!

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg


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