[XeTeX] Installation of Texlive on Ubuntu 10.04

[Axel E. Retif]

On  21 Sep, 2010, at 17:10, Juan Francisco Fraile Vicente wrote:

> As I have installed ubuntu 10.04 on my computer, I would like to have your advice about what is the best way of installing TeXlive at the moment.

Besides Dominik's thorough reply, I would say...

> What is working better at the moment? Texlive 2010 or 2009?

I think TL 2010 is our best choice.

> Is it better to do a full install from the iso file or install everything from the repositories of Canonical?

I would install TL 2010 directly (I have already installed it on my Mac; I haven't yet on Ubuntu, where I still use 2009).

> When I was in Karmic Koala I installed the full Texlive, not from the repositories. Everything was ok, I used the TeXworks editor of Jonathan, but I tried to install Kile (from source) to give it a try and it was impossible for me.

To satisfy dependencies on Ubuntu (TL 2009), I followed section ``Vanilla TeX Live on Debian'' in

http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html

I guess we can adapt that to TL 2010 (that's what I'm planning to do).

Best

Axel