[tex-live] from source

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Tue Jul 18 19:45:47 CEST 2006


>>>>> "djh" == djh  <henman at it.to-be.co.jp> writes:

  > Sorry I've been out of the loop for a while. Need to re-clarify
  > some things

  > One reason I was building texlive from source is because I (from
  > some nefarious reason) can not download files of more than 20
  > megabytes or so through the firewall inbetween me and the world.

  > With the Tetex source package, I was able to downloaded it and
  > when it was make and make installed it gave a complete system.

  > I get the impression that TexLive can not do this.  Am I wrong?

  > Or who can I accomplish this?

You can download a ready-to-use version of TL-2005.

  rsync --verbose --links --recursive --compress \
      --exclude=texlive/source \
      --exclude=texlive/support --exclude=texlive/xemtex \
      tug.org::texlive-Contents <install-dir>

texlive/source contains two large zip files, one of them is >20MB.
support and xemtex contain windows stuff.

Binaries for all platforms require 200MB.

If you don't need binaries for all systems, add --exclude=texlive/bin
and download the binaries for your platform later, for instance:

  cd <install-dir>/texlive/bin
  rsync --verbose --links --recursive \
      tug.org::texlive-Contents/texlive/bin/alpha-linux .

You can browse the tree

    http://tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texlive

and maybe you find a lot of other things you want to exclude.

Please also read the rsync manpage, there are certainly more options
you want to use than in the example above. 

Regards,
  Reinhard

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