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The Debian TeX Live packages are comprised of (currently) 80 packages in total. The most important are:
texlive-binaries
provides the basic binaries and scripts, but is practically useless by itself
texlive-base
provides a minimal system
texlive-latex-base
provides the most basic LaTeX input files, and will be sufficient for some simple documents
texlive-latex-recommended
a recommended set of LaTeX packages which are sufficient for most typesetting purposes if you don't have any special requirements
texlive-fonts-recommended
a recommended set of fonts which are sufficient for most typesetting purposes if you don't have any special requirements
texlive
a meta-package depending on a decent selection of packages, comprising all of the above
texlive-full
a meta-package depending on all packages from the TeX Live group and on some other packages to create something similar to a full TeX Live installation
texlive-doc-*
packages like texlive-doc-en
and texlive-doc-de
provide documentation in the respective language
texlive-lang-*
packages like texlive-lang-dutch
and
texlive-lang-spanish
provide language-specific support, like
hyphenation patterns
There are many more packages, providing extra functionality and extra fonts. Please see the respective descriptions of these packages.
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