[tex-live] Profile-based install: scheme plus selected extras?
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Fri Sep 25 00:49:12 CEST 2015
On 2015-09-24 at 10:21:30 +0100, Joseph Wright wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> The documentation for using the -profile option with install-tl says the
> best way to make a profile is to start from one from a successful manual
> install. However, the installer interface doesn't seem to allow
> selection of a scheme plus 'extras', so I'm not sure what goes into a
> profile to achieve the equivalent of
>
> ./install-tl -scheme scheme-basic
>
> [path]/tlmgr install [list of extra packages]
>
> I don't really want to use a bigger scheme, but the above seems a bit
> inefficient: if I can get the installer to do everything there's only
> one hash/format build phase.
>
> What do I need in a profile to make that work?
Hi Joseph,
after you've chosen an installation scheme you can go to the
collections menu and enable additional collections.
A scheme is a set of collections and some schemes also contain a few
packages. It's not possible to add/remove packages but you can always
add or remove collections.
Instead of selecting a particular scheme you can go as well straight
to the collections menu, disable all collections ("-" key), and select
the collections you need.
If you think that installing a complete collection (though you only
need a few packages) consumes too much time, consider to write a shell
script which first invokes the installer in order to install a basic
scheme and then runs tlmgr in order to install extra packages.
Regards,
Reinhard
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