From: "Armin K." <kre...@email.com>
Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Texlive
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:19:05 +0100

> On 01/03/2013 02:15 AM, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to install texlive. But from my Debian experience, it works fine
>> without 3GB of size. I consider 3GB as not reasonable. I only need to 
>> generate
>> pdf documents, using beamer, book, article, and some functions such as
>> letter.
>>
>> Do you know how to build a minimal package? I tried to build in order to
>> have pdflatex but without so much packages but I can't. I did, to get
>> that:
>> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-native-texlive-build 
>> --enable-build-in-source-tree --enable-mktextex-default --disable-biber 
>> --disable-chktex --disable-mtx --disable-pmx --disable-t1utils 
>> --disable-vlna --disable-xindy --disable-xindy-rules --disable-xindy-docs 
>> --disable-web2c --disable-omfonts --disable-ptex --disable-ptex-synctex 
>> --disable-uptex --disable-uptex-synctex --disable-euptex 
>> --disable-euptex-synctex --disable-aleph --disable-xetex-synctex 
>> --disable-afm2pl --disable-cjkutils  --disable-devnag --disable-dtl 
>> --disable-dvi2tty --disable-debug --disable-gsftopk --disable-lacheck 
>> --disable-lcdf-typetools --disable-cfftot1 --disable-mmafm --disable-mmpfb 
>> --disable-otfinfo --disable-t1dotlessj --disable-t1lint --disable-t1reencode 
>> --disable-t1testpage --disable-ttftotype42 --disable-auto-cfftot1 
>> --disable-auto-t1dotlessj --disable-auto-ttftotype42 --disable-auto-updmap 
>> --disable-makejvf --disable-ps2pkm --disable-seetexk --disable-ttf2pk 
>> --disable-ttfdump --
 d
>  is
>>   able-xdv2pdf --disable-xdvik --disable-xdvipdfmx --disable-mktexpk-default 
>> --disable-mktextfm-default --disable-mkocp-default --disable-mkofm-default 
>> --disable-mktexfmt-default --without-ln-s --without-x
>>
>> Can I do a auto-install then copying some binaries or other from a tmp
>> directroy to /usr/bin?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
> 
> I'd recommend that you use texlive installer (which, unfortunately 
> installs precompiled packages) to install TexLive. I did that for 

  So did I as well. And by the way I was never able to compile
  TeXlive. It might be that the documentation as change since I
  tried but with the version I had it was almost not posssible
  and absolutely not recommended to recompile texlive.

  P.



> myself, it is highly customisable. TexLive takes only 600 MB with nearly 
> everything - without some *extra* fonts, sources and nearly all docs. I 
> guess you can strip it to 200 MB or even less for your needs.
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