[Tex/LaTex] Downloading every package with Tex live

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How can I download every package with Tex Live? I remember finding some command with tlmgr, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it was, or which answer I was reading, and to what question.

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Here you have a complete documentation regarding the tlmgr command line. As far as I have glanced through it, there is only an option to update all packages using the following command: tlmgr update --self --all.

As for installing, you only have the option to install one package at a time (with all it's dependencies) using tlmgr install package_to_install.

Given this, the easiest way to install everything is (probably) to perform a reinstall of Tex Live. As @Joseph pointed out, Tex Live install everything by default.

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It's a wrapper package used by various packages which rely on some experimental pieces of the LaTeX3 project. See here

To install it, open a terminal and type:

sudo tlmgr install expl3

Oops, now seen your edit. Try:

sudo tlmgr install xpackages

It might be necessary to do an update your system:

sudo tlmgr update -self -all

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actually this is a further comment on corentin's answer, but it exceeds 600 characters.

Since http://www.tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ is an Apache directory listing you can try downloading packages with wget. For example if you want to download l3experimental where xcoffins is a subfolder you can invoke wget like

wget --cut-dir=4 -np -R "index.html*" -nH -P ~/texmf -r http://www.tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3experimental/

wget --cut-dir=6 -np -R "index.html*" -P ~/texmf/tex/latex -r http://www.tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3experimental/

this.

-P ~/dir/in/home/directory/ specifies the local directory where wget should put your files.
-nH tells wget that you don't want to create directories named after the host i.e. ~/texmf/www.tug.org/*/*/ looks not so nice and latex won't find anything under ~/texmf/www.tug.org. But you can omit -nH and change the local directory to -P ~/textmf/tex/latex. Then you have a seperate directory tree that latex also searches.
whereby --cut-dir=x means that you don't want to create the first x folders of the uri in your local directory (you want to create ~/texmf/tex/latex/l3experimental/ or ~/texmf/tex/latex/www.tug.org/l3experimental/ instead of ~/textmf/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3experimental).
-R instructs wget to exclude all files beginning with index.html.
-r is for recursive fetch
the argument of -P is the directory where you want to save all those things
-np excludes all parent directories of l3experimental (of course you can find a more detailed description in the manual pages of wget)

but generally be careful if you download things with wget recursively it could mess up a whole directory tree. I would recommend you to first download the files in a temporary directory (for example with -P ~/texmftemporary) where you can examine the downloaded directory tree.

Since latex also searches recursively for packages in ~/texmf/tex/latex you don't have to bother if xcoffins is a subfolder of any other folder/folders.

Of course you can redefine things further if you write a little bash, perl or whatever script that is based on the above command.

Maybe this helps you!?

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