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<p>Fair enough, Naveen, but personally I cannot see why one would <i>want</i>
to install LaTeX using the command-line. The
"Install-TL-{Advanced|Windows}.bat" files are all I ever use, and
I launch one or the other from Windows Explorer by right-clicking
and selecting "Run as administrator". I then perform a full
install, even though I use less than 0.01% of the files
installed. I have been doing this since 2008, if not earlier (I
have archives only going back to 2018, but may well have been
installing it before that). It may be worth mentioning that for
speed of installation I first "rsynch" the entire TeX Live
installation suite to an SSD and then install from there rather
than pulling files one by one from the net.<br>
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<p><i>Philip Taylor<br>
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Naveen M K wrote:<br>
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<div>I don't think what you are saying is True. I personally know
many people use chocolatey, especially installing MikTex, but
many fail, I don't know why. At first many windows users don't
know about TexLive, and always seek to Miktex. Now here, that's
not the problem. The main problem is that LaTex can't be
installed easily on Windows using command line. Say for example
you are running GitHub Actions, will the UI be any help for you,
will you be able to install LaTeX for testing there? Currently
it would, be difficult and you would need to have some
experience on TexLive and only then you can install it by
creating profiles and using tlmgr. I exactly faced this
difficulty when I took the responsibility for testing Manim, <a
href="https://github.com/manimcommunity/manim"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/manimcommunity/manim</a>
which depends on LaTeX. It took me a week's time searching for
alternatives and finally I found TinyTex where he provided a
script to install TexLive. After that, I read some docs of
TexLive (People usually won't do this), and only then I came to
know that it can be installed using command line. I have seen
many projects failed to test on windows because they could
install LaTeX. Here, the Chocolatey package would be very
helpful ( All CI has chocolatey installed). So creating it may
potentially help many projects to test their projects, on
Windows. That's the reason I was very interested on this because
I have a *good* heart that others should not feel the pain I
faced. <br>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Naveen</div>
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