[tex-live] from source
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Tue Jul 18 19:45:47 CEST 2006
>>>>> "djh" == djh <henman at it.to-be.co.jp> writes:
> Sorry I've been out of the loop for a while. Need to re-clarify
> some things
> One reason I was building texlive from source is because I (from
> some nefarious reason) can not download files of more than 20
> megabytes or so through the firewall inbetween me and the world.
> With the Tetex source package, I was able to downloaded it and
> when it was make and make installed it gave a complete system.
> I get the impression that TexLive can not do this. Am I wrong?
> Or who can I accomplish this?
You can download a ready-to-use version of TL-2005.
rsync --verbose --links --recursive --compress \
--exclude=texlive/source \
--exclude=texlive/support --exclude=texlive/xemtex \
tug.org::texlive-Contents <install-dir>
texlive/source contains two large zip files, one of them is >20MB.
support and xemtex contain windows stuff.
Binaries for all platforms require 200MB.
If you don't need binaries for all systems, add --exclude=texlive/bin
and download the binaries for your platform later, for instance:
cd <install-dir>/texlive/bin
rsync --verbose --links --recursive \
tug.org::texlive-Contents/texlive/bin/alpha-linux .
You can browse the tree
http://tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texlive
and maybe you find a lot of other things you want to exclude.
Please also read the rsync manpage, there are certainly more options
you want to use than in the example above.
Regards,
Reinhard
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