texlive 2019 install

[Steve Litt]

Hi Ehud,

Your TexLive installation problems in Linux might be distro-related. I
use Void Linux,  and it installs easy as a Void package. My only
problem is once a year, a new year is added to the /opt/texlive tree,
and I need to use tlmgr to update or install a bunch of things. It's
about a 5 hour process, once a year.

StveT




On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 11:46:41 -0400
UD Kap <ehud.kaplan at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the few times I had to install TexLive in Linux, it was always a 
> nightmare (paths, privileges, dependencies..), especially to get an 
> installation in which tlmgr was working.  It is frustrating that such
> an important piece of software doesn't have a smooth installation
> method. I realize that they want to have a system which can be
> updated without the linux package manager, but there ought to be some
> better way.
> 
> E.Kaplan
> 
> On 10/12/19 8:43 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Oct 2019, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> >  
> >> srcbook.cls not found biblatex.sty is missing - no biber found
> >> enumitem.sty not found.  
> >
> > Wolfgang,
> >
> > I'm sorry you're having such hassles with TeXLive and LyX. Since
> > the missing
> > .cls and .sty files managed to fall off, but they're present on
> > your laptop
> > why not copy them to the almost-working host? They're text files
> > and you can
> > add them to whatever directories hold the other class and style
> > files just
> > as you would when adding new pacages from CTAN.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Rich  
>