I am afraid that TeXLive will always lag in ubuntu. Repackaging it in debs appears to be simply a too huge effort.
Since texlive already has its own package manager, I suggest creating a minimalistic texlive-installer deb package that automatizes to some extent the install of a vanilla TeXlive as described in http://tug.org/texlive/debian.html This should boil down to 1) The package declares to be providing all the stuff in http://tug.org/texlive/files/debian-control-ex.txt 2) The package at install downloads the TexLive installer and runs it, so that the installer downloads a base system from ctan 3) The package at uninstall uses the TeXlive installer to uninstall and verifies that everything is properly cleaned up. I have created a new bug for this at Bug #905328 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/712521 Title: [Needs packaging] TeXLive 2011 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/tex-live/+bug/712521/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
