As given on https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/tlmgr.html , tlmgr can be used to install packages. Where does it store these packages? Because then I can copy them to another machine for installation rather than downloading them every time. Thanks for your help.
Edit: I am using Debian Stable Linux.
Best Answer
I am trying to answer this very unclear question:
tlmgr
installs the packages to, then it is the path relative to the location oftlmgr
two levels up. So if thetlmgr
binary is in/a/b/c/bin/x86_64-linux/tlmgr
, then it will install packages into/a/b/c
.tlmgr
saves downloaded packages (likelatex.tar.xz
etc), then this is a temporary directory that will disappear after installation. Packages are not kept for reuse.tlmgr
saves backups of packages before doing updates, then this is again relative to the location of thetlmgr
binary, two levels up and thentlpkg/backup
, but this can be configured withtlmgr
.Hope that helps