[Tex/LaTex] the difference between install texlive through iso image and through apt-get in Ubuntu

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I'd like to install TeX Live, but I'd like to know the best option: download the ISO image or install through apt-get command: apt-get texlivefull.

I am using Xubuntu 11.10. Is there a significant difference between the two types of installations? Will I have the same packages?

Can I use Kile editor with Tex Live installed through the ISO image? Is it hard to configure it?

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AFAIK, Ubuntu ships with TeXLive 2009. The iso image is TeXLive 2011. There were many changes during this time.

Also, tlmgr allows you to update the packages from the online repository.

I used Debian TeXLive for many years, until changed to the current TeXLive at the end of 2011. I just got tired of manually updating my distribution with the new versions of the packages I needed.

AFAIK, Kile should work with TL'2011 without problems.

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It's quite strange that uname -i gives "unknown". However, the TeX Live installer should have guessed your architecture. So, look at the output of

ls /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin

and use that; since you're on a 64 bit machine, it should be

x86_64-linux

so the first line to be saved in zzzz-texlive.sh should be

export PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH

A logout-login cycle should be sufficient to make the new setting work.

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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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