texlive-20230313-source

Installation of TeX Live

Install TeX Live by running the following commands:

Caution

If you wish to upgrade to current texlive on an older system where extra packages (asymptote, biber, dvisvgm, or xindy) have been installed, you will need to reinstall those as well as fixing up your PATH for $TEXLIVE_PREFIX.

Note

A successful install requires some texlive commands to be run as the root user, so we will export the TEXARCH variable to let root use it.

Now, as a normal user:

export TEXARCH=$(uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' -e 's/$/-linux/') &&

patch -Np1 -i ../texlive-20230313-source-security_fix-1.patch &&

mkdir texlive-build &&
cd    texlive-build &&

../configure -C                                   \
    --prefix=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX                      \
    --bindir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/bin/$TEXARCH         \
    --datarootdir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX                 \
    --includedir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/include          \
    --infodir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist/doc/info \
    --libdir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/lib                  \
    --mandir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist/doc/man   \
    --disable-native-texlive-build                \
    --disable-static --enable-shared              \
    --disable-dvisvgm                             \
    --with-system-cairo                           \
    --with-system-fontconfig                      \
    --with-system-freetype2                       \
    --with-system-gmp                             \
    --with-system-graphite2                       \
    --with-system-harfbuzz                        \
    --with-system-icu                             \
    --with-system-libgs                           \
    --with-system-libpaper                        \
    --with-system-libpng                          \
    --with-system-mpfr                            \
    --with-system-pixman                          \
    --with-system-zlib                            \
    --with-banner-add=" - BLFS" &&

make

To test the results, issue: make -k check. Two tests, psutils.test and eptexdir/wcfname.test are known to fail.

Now, as the root user:

make install-strip &&
/sbin/ldconfig     &&
make texlinks      &&
mkdir -pv                                $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/tlpkg/TeXLive/ &&
install -v -m644 ../texk/tests/TeXLive/* $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/tlpkg/TeXLive/ &&
tar -xf ../../texlive-20230311-tlpdb-full.tar.gz -C $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/tlpkg

Note

Only run make texlinks once. If it is rerun, it can change all the program symlinks so that they point to themselves and are useless.

Now install the additional files as the root user:

tar -xf ../../texlive-20230313-texmf.tar.xz -C $TEXLIVE_PREFIX --strip-components=1

Still as the root user, initialize the new system (the command fmtutil-sys --all will produce a lot of output):

mktexlsr &&
fmtutil-sys --all

To allow Evince-45.0 or dvisvgm-3.1.2 to link to libkpathsea.so, as the root user (re)create a symlink from /usr/lib:

ln -svf $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/lib/libkpathsea.so /usr/lib

Note

TeXLive includes some files for ConTeXt but the source of that is separate and has moved on from using luatex in the previous 'mkiv' version to using luametatex which can be pulled with git from github luametatex. LuaMetaTeX uses meson and ninja, but it does not fit easily into the BLFS layout of TeXLive.

However, with a little extra work 'mkiv' files can still be processed using the files shipped in texmf.

Fixes to use ConTeXt will be removed when the texlive source next has to be updated for either a vulnerability fix which requires backporting luatex changes, or for TeXLive 2024. If you are a BLFS user of ConTeXt you should be prepared to use the latest tag from github (the link is in first paragraph of this Note). Building and installing that to work with a BLFS install of TeXLive will not be a trivial exercise.

The following steps, run as the root user, will create mtxrun and context.

sed -e '/local template=\[\[--ini/s/\(primaryflags%\)\(.*\)/\1 --socket --shell-escape \2/' \
 -e '/local template=\[\[%primaryflags%/s/\(primaryflags%\)\(.*\)/\1 --socket --shell-escape \2/' \
  -i $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/mtxrun.lua &&

mkdir -pv $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/ &&

ln -sfv /$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/mtxrun.lua \
        /$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/bin/$TEXARCH/mtxrun &&

cat > $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/bin/$TEXARCH/context << EOF
#!/bin/sh
export TEXMF=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist;
export TEXMFCNF=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist/web2c;
export TEXMFCACHE=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/;
$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/bin/$TEXARCH/mtxrun --script context "\$@"
EOF
chmod -v 0755 $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/bin/$TEXARCH/context

You can now proceed to asymptote-2.86, biber-2.19, dvisvgm-3.1.2 and / or xindy-2.5.1 if you wish to install them.