![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To use the available GUI mode, Tcl and its extension Tk ( Tcl/Tk) are required. Most distributions include it by default. The installer is a Perl script, so it needs to be installed on the system. ![]() It can be downloaded from a Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) mirror that is automatically determined to be the closest by CTAN, a manually chosen CTAN mirror. This version of the installer will download the latest updated versions - not the stable versions included in the yearly release - of the necessary TeX Live components for the installation. There installation media are available: Net Installer The Net installer is an image that includes the installer and associated scripts and other components for the installation but none of the actual programs and resources included in TeX Live. Installing this version on all the distributions I use will give me, in addition to stability, a consistent experience on all the distributions I use. It seems Linux distributions base their inclusions in their repositories on these updated components which, unlike the yearly release, are not thoroughly tested, leading to the instabilities and bugs I experienced. TUG provides a well tested and stable yearly release whose components can be updated, if desired, using a TeX Live management tool included with the installation. This was a good decision, and one I recommend other TeX/LaTeX users consider using. When an Arch update finally broke the last completely working TeX Live installation I had of all the installations on all distributions on my G5, I decided to go ahead and uninstall the distributions' version of TeX Live available from their repos and switch to the TeX Live from TUG, installed from the TeX Live ISO image, as opposed to the other installation methods. I also had the impression that installing the TUG's TeX Live would be more complicated than it turned out to be. I had considered using the TUG's distribution of TeX Live in the past, but the non-ideal experience I had with MikTeX on Windows compared with the simplicity of using a Linux distribution's package manager dissuaded me. ![]()
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