[Tex/LaTex] Installing TeX Live on a Synology NAS

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Has anyone tried to install TeX Live on a Synology NAS? TeX Live 2012 runs smoothly on my Raspberry Pi but I can think of a scenario where having it run on my NAS could make some sense.

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I have successfully installed LaTeX on my Synology DS1511+ by installing first ipkg and optware so that I have had a /OPT directory. Then I have used the Documentation on http://www.churchtool.org/fileadmin/user_upload/docs/latex_in_userspace.pdf but I have installed the files to /opt/texlive.

I have problems on installing the same package to a DS212j because there is a smaller Marvell Processor.

I have now found binaries on this page: http://tug.org/texlive/custom-bin.html Over a hint in this forum: http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2012-August/032204.html Now I try that binaries for "older arm(v5) systems": http://dl.home.lancelotsix.com/texlive/2012/armv5tel-unknown-linux-gnueabi.tar.bz2 I will post my result in this discussion later on.

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Two thinks I would check:

did you adjust your $PATH to include the texlive bin directory? If you did not, your shell will not be able to find your binaries, and trying to run any of them will result in a command not found error.

Note that if you runt tlmgr as root (using sudo) as you should (otherwise it will not be able to write to your texlive directories and therefore will not be able to update anything), you may need to change the root's path, too.
the 404 errors are worrisome. It does look like the CTAN mirror that gets automatically chosen for your location is having problems. You could try to use a different mirror. Find another nearby mirror here and then use the -repository option with the chosen mirror's url when using install-tl. For more information look here, and read the section on -repository option.

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If you wish to install TeXLive in /usr/local/texlive/2011 (which is the default location), then you need to do so as root. Either use sudo in front of your ./install-tl command, or switch to root account (sudo -i) and install it:

sudo ./install-tl

If you want to install TeXLive as a simple user (and not as root), you can do so by specifying another location for the installation:

TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/install/dir ./install-tl

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