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Debian-specific information about TeX packages

Abstract

This document covers Debian-specific information for users of the Debian TeX Live packages (all packages named texlive-something). Further information, especially for developers, can be found in the Debian TeX Policy draft in /usr/share/doc/tex-common/.

Copyright Notice

Copyright © 2004-2012 Frank Küster, Florent Rougon, Norbert Preining

This document is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This document is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

A copy of the GNU General Public License is available as /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL in the Debian distribution or on the World Wide Web at The GNU General Public Licence. You can also obtain it by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

Contents

• 1 Overview of the packages
• 2 Changing your configuration, file placement
  • 2.1 Available TEXMF trees for users and system administrators
  • 2.2 General hints
  • 2.3 Hyphenation
  • 2.4 The files texmf.cnf, fmtutil.cnf, updmap.cfg and language.* group
  • 2.5 Font caching
• 3 Usage hints, Debian-specific adaptations
  • 3.1 Note on dvips
  • 3.2 Note on dvipdfmx
  • 3.3 “TeX capacity exceeded” and similar errors
• 4 How to install additional or updated (La)TeX packages or fonts
  • 4.1 (La)TeX input files
  • 4.2 Complex installations
  • 4.3 Font installation
  • 4.4 User-specific installation
• 5 Problems, bug reports

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Debian-specific information about TeX packages