Small portable linux version of texlive
I have tried creating a portable version of texlive using the network installer. The result was a directory with size of 4.6GB.
Can one create a portable version of texlive smaller than 300MB that still is kind of complete? Or is this big amount of data really needed?
texlive
asked Sep 16 '16 at 20:39
Nathan
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I have tried creating a portable version of texlive using the network installer. The result was a directory with size of 4.6GB.
Can one create a portable version of texlive smaller than 300MB that still is kind of complete? Or is this big amount of data really needed?
texlive
asked Sep 16 '16 at 20:39
Nathan
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Depends what you mean by 'complete'. A large portion of a full TeX Live install is documentation and source, before one starts reducing the number of packages.
– Joseph Wright♦
Sep 16 '16 at 20:41
emTeX was on 8 floppy disks. :-)
– Przemysław Scherwentke
Sep 16 '16 at 20:58
the first tex I installed was with three floppy disks on a machine with no hard drive, one drive for your editor+document then swap in one of the other two into the other slot for tex or a preview/print driver. it was complete and less than 3Mb but perhaps less functional than you might expect today. (more seriously you could get a lot less than 300Mb if you don't need large font sets, for example.
– David Carlisle
Sep 16 '16 at 21:51
Well, I cannot really define "kind of complete". I could also say "contains everything I will most likely need", but that is similarly vague. But maybe someone already made a package that makes sense.
– Nathan
Sep 17 '16 at 16:22
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I have tried creating a portable version of texlive using the network installer. The result was a directory with size of 4.6GB.
Can one create a portable version of texlive smaller than 300MB that still is kind of complete? Or is this big amount of data really needed?
texlive
asked Sep 16 '16 at 20:39
Nathan
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I have tried creating a portable version of texlive using the network installer. The result was a directory with size of 4.6GB.
Can one create a portable version of texlive smaller than 300MB that still is kind of complete? Or is this big amount of data really needed?
texlive
texlive
asked Sep 16 '16 at 20:39
Nathan
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asked Sep 16 '16 at 20:39
Nathan
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asked Sep 16 '16 at 20:39
Nathan
27619
asked Sep 16 '16 at 20:39
Nathan
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asked Sep 16 '16 at 20:39
Nathan
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Depends what you mean by 'complete'. A large portion of a full TeX Live install is documentation and source, before one starts reducing the number of packages.
– Joseph Wright♦
Sep 16 '16 at 20:41
emTeX was on 8 floppy disks. :-)
– Przemysław Scherwentke
Sep 16 '16 at 20:58
the first tex I installed was with three floppy disks on a machine with no hard drive, one drive for your editor+document then swap in one of the other two into the other slot for tex or a preview/print driver. it was complete and less than 3Mb but perhaps less functional than you might expect today. (more seriously you could get a lot less than 300Mb if you don't need large font sets, for example.
– David Carlisle
Sep 16 '16 at 21:51
Well, I cannot really define "kind of complete". I could also say "contains everything I will most likely need", but that is similarly vague. But maybe someone already made a package that makes sense.
– Nathan
Sep 17 '16 at 16:22
add a comment |
1
Depends what you mean by 'complete'. A large portion of a full TeX Live install is documentation and source, before one starts reducing the number of packages.
– Joseph Wright♦
Sep 16 '16 at 20:41
emTeX was on 8 floppy disks. :-)
– Przemysław Scherwentke
Sep 16 '16 at 20:58
the first tex I installed was with three floppy disks on a machine with no hard drive, one drive for your editor+document then swap in one of the other two into the other slot for tex or a preview/print driver. it was complete and less than 3Mb but perhaps less functional than you might expect today. (more seriously you could get a lot less than 300Mb if you don't need large font sets, for example.
– David Carlisle
Sep 16 '16 at 21:51
Well, I cannot really define "kind of complete". I could also say "contains everything I will most likely need", but that is similarly vague. But maybe someone already made a package that makes sense.
– Nathan
Sep 17 '16 at 16:22
1
1
Depends what you mean by 'complete'. A large portion of a full TeX Live install is documentation and source, before one starts reducing the number of packages.
– Joseph Wright♦
Sep 16 '16 at 20:41
Depends what you mean by 'complete'. A large portion of a full TeX Live install is documentation and source, before one starts reducing the number of packages.
– Joseph Wright♦
Sep 16 '16 at 20:41
emTeX was on 8 floppy disks. :-)
– Przemysław Scherwentke
Sep 16 '16 at 20:58
emTeX was on 8 floppy disks. :-)
– Przemysław Scherwentke
Sep 16 '16 at 20:58
the first tex I installed was with three floppy disks on a machine with no hard drive, one drive for your editor+document then swap in one of the other two into the other slot for tex or a preview/print driver. it was complete and less than 3Mb but perhaps less functional than you might expect today. (more seriously you could get a lot less than 300Mb if you don't need large font sets, for example.
– David Carlisle
Sep 16 '16 at 21:51
the first tex I installed was with three floppy disks on a machine with no hard drive, one drive for your editor+document then swap in one of the other two into the other slot for tex or a preview/print driver. it was complete and less than 3Mb but perhaps less functional than you might expect today. (more seriously you could get a lot less than 300Mb if you don't need large font sets, for example.
– David Carlisle
Sep 16 '16 at 21:51
Well, I cannot really define "kind of complete". I could also say "contains everything I will most likely need", but that is similarly vague. But maybe someone already made a package that makes sense.
– Nathan
Sep 17 '16 at 16:22
Well, I cannot really define "kind of complete". I could also say "contains everything I will most likely need", but that is similarly vague. But maybe someone already made a package that makes sense.
– Nathan
Sep 17 '16 at 16:22
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If you look at the break down of the big directories on my Linux 2016 install of TeX Live (which is also 4.6 GB)
95M /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-var/web2c
96M /usr/local/texlive/2016/tlpkg/backups
141M /usr/local/texlive/2016/bin
252M /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/source
289M /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex
1.7G /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/fonts
2.0G /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/doc
If you are willing to limited yourself to a few fonts, most of ./fonts can go. If you are happy with online documentation, you can get rid of ./doc. I am pretty sure ./web2c, ./source, and ./backups are not needed.
You are going to get reduced functionality if you delete things in ./tex (this is where the packages and classes live) and ./bin (this is where the programs live), but there are packages and programs that are rarely used so some space can be saved.
answered Sep 16 '16 at 20:58
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Don't delete ’web2c’ dir, it is necessary.
– norbert
Sep 17 '16 at 6:10
Ok, what I need now is a reasonable way of cleaning out "font". Any Idea if I somehow can get a list of fonts I will most likely need in day-to-day yex usage?
– Nathan
Sep 17 '16 at 16:33
Maybe if uses only latin modern and fonts accesible to XeLaTeX
– djnavas
Sep 19 '16 at 5:12
add a comment |
TexLive installer currently has the <V> set up for portable installation option. Then, entering the <S> set installation scheme: you'll be able to choose between the following schemes:
a [X] full scheme (everything)
b [ ] medium scheme (small + more packages and languages)
c [ ] small scheme (basic + xetex, metapost, a few languages)
d [ ] basic scheme (plain and latex)
e [ ] minimal scheme (plain only)
f [ ] ConTeXt scheme
g [ ] GUST TeX Live scheme
h [ ] infrastructure-only scheme (no TeX at all)
i [ ] teTeX scheme (more than medium, but nowhere near full)
j [ ] custom selection of collections
The installer also tells you the disk space required.
Depending on the scheme chosen, you may need to install some missing packages you use.
answered Dec 11 '18 at 16:57
Rodolfo FR
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If you look at the break down of the big directories on my Linux 2016 install of TeX Live (which is also 4.6 GB)
95M /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-var/web2c
96M /usr/local/texlive/2016/tlpkg/backups
141M /usr/local/texlive/2016/bin
252M /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/source
289M /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex
1.7G /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/fonts
2.0G /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/doc
If you are willing to limited yourself to a few fonts, most of ./fonts can go. If you are happy with online documentation, you can get rid of ./doc. I am pretty sure ./web2c, ./source, and ./backups are not needed.
You are going to get reduced functionality if you delete things in ./tex (this is where the packages and classes live) and ./bin (this is where the programs live), but there are packages and programs that are rarely used so some space can be saved.
answered Sep 16 '16 at 20:58
StrongBad
13.1k646102
1
Don't delete ’web2c’ dir, it is necessary.
– norbert
Sep 17 '16 at 6:10
Ok, what I need now is a reasonable way of cleaning out "font". Any Idea if I somehow can get a list of fonts I will most likely need in day-to-day yex usage?
– Nathan
Sep 17 '16 at 16:33
Maybe if uses only latin modern and fonts accesible to XeLaTeX
– djnavas
Sep 19 '16 at 5:12
add a comment |
If you look at the break down of the big directories on my Linux 2016 install of TeX Live (which is also 4.6 GB)
95M /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-var/web2c
96M /usr/local/texlive/2016/tlpkg/backups
141M /usr/local/texlive/2016/bin
252M /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/source
289M /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex
1.7G /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/fonts
2.0G /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/doc
If you are willing to limited yourself to a few fonts, most of ./fonts can go. If you are happy with online documentation, you can get rid of ./doc. I am pretty sure ./web2c, ./source, and ./backups are not needed.
You are going to get reduced functionality if you delete things in ./tex (this is where the packages and classes live) and ./bin (this is where the programs live), but there are packages and programs that are rarely used so some space can be saved.
answered Sep 16 '16 at 20:58
StrongBad
13.1k646102
1
Don't delete ’web2c’ dir, it is necessary.
– norbert
Sep 17 '16 at 6:10
Ok, what I need now is a reasonable way of cleaning out "font". Any Idea if I somehow can get a list of fonts I will most likely need in day-to-day yex usage?
– Nathan
Sep 17 '16 at 16:33
Maybe if uses only latin modern and fonts accesible to XeLaTeX
– djnavas
Sep 19 '16 at 5:12
add a comment |
If you look at the break down of the big directories on my Linux 2016 install of TeX Live (which is also 4.6 GB)
95M /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-var/web2c
96M /usr/local/texlive/2016/tlpkg/backups
141M /usr/local/texlive/2016/bin
252M /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/source
289M /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex
1.7G /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/fonts
2.0G /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/doc
If you are willing to limited yourself to a few fonts, most of ./fonts can go. If you are happy with online documentation, you can get rid of ./doc. I am pretty sure ./web2c, ./source, and ./backups are not needed.
You are going to get reduced functionality if you delete things in ./tex (this is where the packages and classes live) and ./bin (this is where the programs live), but there are packages and programs that are rarely used so some space can be saved.
answered Sep 16 '16 at 20:58
StrongBad
13.1k646102
If you look at the break down of the big directories on my Linux 2016 install of TeX Live (which is also 4.6 GB)
95M /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-var/web2c
96M /usr/local/texlive/2016/tlpkg/backups
141M /usr/local/texlive/2016/bin
252M /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/source
289M /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex
1.7G /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/fonts
2.0G /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/doc
If you are willing to limited yourself to a few fonts, most of ./fonts can go. If you are happy with online documentation, you can get rid of ./doc. I am pretty sure ./web2c, ./source, and ./backups are not needed.
You are going to get reduced functionality if you delete things in ./tex (this is where the packages and classes live) and ./bin (this is where the programs live), but there are packages and programs that are rarely used so some space can be saved.
answered Sep 16 '16 at 20:58
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answered Sep 16 '16 at 20:58
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answered Sep 16 '16 at 20:58
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answered Sep 16 '16 at 20:58
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Don't delete ’web2c’ dir, it is necessary.
– norbert
Sep 17 '16 at 6:10
Ok, what I need now is a reasonable way of cleaning out "font". Any Idea if I somehow can get a list of fonts I will most likely need in day-to-day yex usage?
– Nathan
Sep 17 '16 at 16:33
Maybe if uses only latin modern and fonts accesible to XeLaTeX
– djnavas
Sep 19 '16 at 5:12
add a comment |
1
Don't delete ’web2c’ dir, it is necessary.
– norbert
Sep 17 '16 at 6:10
Ok, what I need now is a reasonable way of cleaning out "font". Any Idea if I somehow can get a list of fonts I will most likely need in day-to-day yex usage?
– Nathan
Sep 17 '16 at 16:33
Maybe if uses only latin modern and fonts accesible to XeLaTeX
– djnavas
Sep 19 '16 at 5:12
1
1
Don't delete ’web2c’ dir, it is necessary.
– norbert
Sep 17 '16 at 6:10
Don't delete ’web2c’ dir, it is necessary.
– norbert
Sep 17 '16 at 6:10
Ok, what I need now is a reasonable way of cleaning out "font". Any Idea if I somehow can get a list of fonts I will most likely need in day-to-day yex usage?
– Nathan
Sep 17 '16 at 16:33
Ok, what I need now is a reasonable way of cleaning out "font". Any Idea if I somehow can get a list of fonts I will most likely need in day-to-day yex usage?
– Nathan
Sep 17 '16 at 16:33
Maybe if uses only latin modern and fonts accesible to XeLaTeX
– djnavas
Sep 19 '16 at 5:12
Maybe if uses only latin modern and fonts accesible to XeLaTeX
– djnavas
Sep 19 '16 at 5:12
add a comment |
TexLive installer currently has the <V> set up for portable installation option. Then, entering the <S> set installation scheme: you'll be able to choose between the following schemes:
a [X] full scheme (everything)
b [ ] medium scheme (small + more packages and languages)
c [ ] small scheme (basic + xetex, metapost, a few languages)
d [ ] basic scheme (plain and latex)
e [ ] minimal scheme (plain only)
f [ ] ConTeXt scheme
g [ ] GUST TeX Live scheme
h [ ] infrastructure-only scheme (no TeX at all)
i [ ] teTeX scheme (more than medium, but nowhere near full)
j [ ] custom selection of collections
The installer also tells you the disk space required.
Depending on the scheme chosen, you may need to install some missing packages you use.
answered Dec 11 '18 at 16:57
Rodolfo FR
313
add a comment |
TexLive installer currently has the <V> set up for portable installation option. Then, entering the <S> set installation scheme: you'll be able to choose between the following schemes:
a [X] full scheme (everything)
b [ ] medium scheme (small + more packages and languages)
c [ ] small scheme (basic + xetex, metapost, a few languages)
d [ ] basic scheme (plain and latex)
e [ ] minimal scheme (plain only)
f [ ] ConTeXt scheme
g [ ] GUST TeX Live scheme
h [ ] infrastructure-only scheme (no TeX at all)
i [ ] teTeX scheme (more than medium, but nowhere near full)
j [ ] custom selection of collections
The installer also tells you the disk space required.
Depending on the scheme chosen, you may need to install some missing packages you use.
answered Dec 11 '18 at 16:57
Rodolfo FR
313
add a comment |
TexLive installer currently has the <V> set up for portable installation option. Then, entering the <S> set installation scheme: you'll be able to choose between the following schemes:
a [X] full scheme (everything)
b [ ] medium scheme (small + more packages and languages)
c [ ] small scheme (basic + xetex, metapost, a few languages)
d [ ] basic scheme (plain and latex)
e [ ] minimal scheme (plain only)
f [ ] ConTeXt scheme
g [ ] GUST TeX Live scheme
h [ ] infrastructure-only scheme (no TeX at all)
i [ ] teTeX scheme (more than medium, but nowhere near full)
j [ ] custom selection of collections
The installer also tells you the disk space required.
Depending on the scheme chosen, you may need to install some missing packages you use.
answered Dec 11 '18 at 16:57
Rodolfo FR
313
TexLive installer currently has the <V> set up for portable installation option. Then, entering the <S> set installation scheme: you'll be able to choose between the following schemes:
a [X] full scheme (everything)
b [ ] medium scheme (small + more packages and languages)
c [ ] small scheme (basic + xetex, metapost, a few languages)
d [ ] basic scheme (plain and latex)
e [ ] minimal scheme (plain only)
f [ ] ConTeXt scheme
g [ ] GUST TeX Live scheme
h [ ] infrastructure-only scheme (no TeX at all)
i [ ] teTeX scheme (more than medium, but nowhere near full)
j [ ] custom selection of collections
The installer also tells you the disk space required.
Depending on the scheme chosen, you may need to install some missing packages you use.
answered Dec 11 '18 at 16:57
Rodolfo FR
313
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answered Dec 11 '18 at 16:57
Rodolfo FR
313
answered Dec 11 '18 at 16:57
Rodolfo FR
313
answered Dec 11 '18 at 16:57
Rodolfo FR
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Depends what you mean by 'complete'. A large portion of a full TeX Live install is documentation and source, before one starts reducing the number of packages.
– Joseph Wright♦
Sep 16 '16 at 20:41
emTeX was on 8 floppy disks. :-)
– Przemysław Scherwentke
Sep 16 '16 at 20:58
the first tex I installed was with three floppy disks on a machine with no hard drive, one drive for your editor+document then swap in one of the other two into the other slot for tex or a preview/print driver. it was complete and less than 3Mb but perhaps less functional than you might expect today. (more seriously you could get a lot less than 300Mb if you don't need large font sets, for example.
– David Carlisle
Sep 16 '16 at 21:51
Well, I cannot really define "kind of complete". I could also say "contains everything I will most likely need", but that is similarly vague. But maybe someone already made a package that makes sense.
– Nathan
Sep 17 '16 at 16:22