[tex-live] A Simple Recommendation

[Norbert Preining]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2018, Lahcene ROUANI wrote:
>  My problem is that I probably didn't set the path correctly. Could you
> give some directions about how to set the path globally in Ubuntu 18.04 .
> And about refreshing the file name database. And how can I check all of
> that.

It depends on your architecture, look into 
	/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/
and add the directory found there, most probably you have
	/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux

Then add a file /etc/profile.d/texlive.sh containing
	PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH
	export PATH

Log out/reboot and your system should use the TeX Live from TUG. Test it
by running
	which tex
which should give you
	/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux/tex

Best

Norbert

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