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#1 2018-07-07 10:25:10
- jones
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[SOLVED] The full TeX Live install, version 2018
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Te … stallation
I have always downloaded the TeX Live DVD from the official and then did the full installation. On top of that I always installed the texlive-dummy package to mitigate problematic dependencies between tlmgr and pacman.
Through the usage of trizen I noticed that the texlive-dummy package isn't in the repositories anymore.
Those of you who did the full installation of TeX Live, did you use the .iso or did you do it via the official package (i.e. via pacman)?
SOLUTION
Using all the texlive-packages in the repos.
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#2 2018-07-07 15:16:53
- Awebb
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Re: [SOLVED] The full TeX Live install, version 2018
I always get texlive-most and texlive-lang and be done with it. Probably a package from the AUR here and there, but what I will never do again in my whole life, is installing software behemoths behind the back of the package manager.
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#3 2018-07-07 18:48:52
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Re: [SOLVED] The full TeX Live install, version 2018
Ok. Based on your experience, how often do the texlive packages in the AL repos get updated?
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#4 2018-07-07 19:19:47
- jasonwryan
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Re: [SOLVED] The full TeX Live install, version 2018
When upstream push stable releases. That's how Arch works.
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#5 2018-07-07 19:26:58
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Re: [SOLVED] The full TeX Live install, version 2018
how often do the texlive packages in the AL repos get updated?
Grab your spoon, have some food.
"UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman
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#6 2018-07-07 19:56:16
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Re: [SOLVED] The full TeX Live install, version 2018
Thank you all for the replies! 
It's my understanding that using pacman to install texlive-most, texlive-core and so forth installs the bare packages and tlmgr really does not get installed and is basically circumvented. (Is this correct?)
These pacman packages are essentially bundling lots of latex packages, say, koma-script and pgfplots. And these very latex packages get updated every few weeks/months.
Not that I am trying to lecture anyone with this, what I meant was: are the bundles for pacman updated if in the latex packages inside are updated? If yes, in what manner? Or how could one go about getting the updated latex package?
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#7 2018-07-07 20:56:35
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Re: [SOLVED] The full TeX Live install, version 2018
... and tlmgr really does not get installed and is basically circumvented. (Is this correct?)
$ pacman -Fs tlmgr
$how could one go about getting latex packaged updated?
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#8 2018-07-08 09:02:35
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Re: [SOLVED] The full TeX Live install, version 2018
I suggest you use the package page and look up the version history for, say, texlive-core.
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