I just installed texlive-latex-base
package from official Ubuntu repo, now I have to add some modules (ucs
and utf8x
) for compiling .pdf files with Cyrillic encoding, so, how to install it? I found tlmgr
– the TeX Live manager, but I have no such command, it seems that I could install tlmgr using this: "You may end up in a situation where tlmgr itself does not run due to Perl errors, failed updates, or some other reason. If this happens, the simplest way forward is to download and run update-tlmgr-latest.sh" Am I right?
Update:
argon@vprime:~/Documents/diplom$ sudo bash update-tlmgr-latest.sh
[sudo] password for argon:
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing TeX Live Manager Updater..........................................................................................................................................................................
./runme.sh: Cannot find TeX Live root using kpsewhich --var-value=SELFAUTOPARENT.
./runme.sh: Please call update-tlmgr-latest.sh --noexec --keep
./runme.sh: and then call the runme.sh script in the unpacked directory
./runme.sh: with the directory root as the first argument, something like:
./runme.sh: sh runme.sh /path/to/your/texlive/installation/2010
argon@vprime:~/Documents/diplom$ dpkg -L tex
tex-common texlive-binaries texlive-doc-base
texlive-base texlive-common texlive-latex-base
So, path to which package should i use?
Best Answer
LOCALTEXMF
tree and reruntexhash
so that your TeX will find them. This however might sound easier than it is for more complex packages, fonts, bibliography styles, etc.tlmgr
and friends. If you have a good network connection and enough space on your disk, just go with the full installation.Personally, I very much recommend to go with the last option, that is the full TeXLive install from scratch. The point is that Ubuntu still ships TeXLive 2009 packages, while recently TeXLive 2012 came out. Going with the most recent distro will ensure that you will have all the new things done in XeTeX, or LuaTeX which might be of your interest, since as you speak you are after non-latin fonts/encodings and such.
Before doing the full TeXLive install, do not forget to purge the Ubuntu TeXLive 2009 installation, otherwise the two will clash.