I do not know the dependencies b/w the tools provided by the LaTeX bulky lib. A suggested command to install LaTeX tools on Ubuntu is:
sudo apt-get install texlive-full
It's full installation requires almost 1,801 MB of disk-space. What I need is only the pdflatex
command line tool. Is it possible to install the required tool(s) only? If not what is the best way to install the required libs/tools?
Best Answer
Almost every distro have its own package manager. Maintainers of any distro have their own point of view onto package building: its dependencies and its contents. So, for example, in Archlinux
TeXLive
is split onto many small packages. In Debian and Ubuntu, I think, it must be alike.The smallest working set of
LaTeX
have volume about 300 megabytes. For example, my installation ofTeXLive
is near 0.5GB. The only optimal way is toinstall texlive-core
and after that - some packages you need (you will know that they aren't installed in your system by latex error messages).For example, package
texlive-bin
contains all binary files, but no style files;texlive-core
contains main style files and some auxiliary utils. For usingbibtex
with different bibliography styles, you will needtexlive-bibtex-extra
.texlive-langcyrillic
contains support of Cyrillic languages. For using different styles to include images into your file you will needtexlive-pictures
. Et cetera.