texlive-installer on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: December 24,2024

1. Install "texlive-installer" effortlessly via AUR with the help of a helper(YAY)

a. Install YAY (https://github.com/Jguer/yay)


    
        
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                sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git && cd yay && makepkg -si
            
                    
    
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b. Install texlive-installer on Arch using YAY


    
        
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                yay -S
            
                        
                texlive-installer
            
                    
    
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* (Optional) Uninstall texlive-installer on Arch using YAY


    
        
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                yay -Rns
            
                        
                texlive-installer
            
                    
    
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2. Manually Install "texlive-installer" via AUR

a. Ensure you have the base development tools and git installed with:


    
        
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                sudo pacman -S --needed
            
                        
                base-devel git
            
                    
    
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b. Clone texlive-installer's git locally


    
        
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                git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/texlive-installer.git 
            
                        
                ~/texlive-installer
            
                    
    
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c. Go to ~/texlive-installer folder and install it


   
    
        
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                cd
            
                        
                ~/texlive-installer
            
                    
    
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                makepkg -si
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the texlive-installer package on Arch User Repository (AUR)

ID: 1427307
Name: texlive-installer
PackageBaseID: 133334
PackageBase: texlive-installer
Version: 2024-1
Description: This packages provides the installer of texlive. It also tricks Arch into thinking it has its texlive packages installed.
URL: http://www.tug.org/texlive/
NumVotes: 16
Popularity: 0.001841
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: zhou13
Submitter: zhou13
FirstSubmitted: 1528585918
LastModified: 1710447554
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/texlive-installer.tar.gz