texlive-20200406-source

Installation of TeX Live

Install TeX Live by running the following commands:

Caution

The instructions here for dealing with poppler will only work with versions of poppler used in BLFS-9.1 and later, i.e. poppler >= 0.83.0. If you wish to upgrade an older system, there are versions of pdftoepdf{,-poppler*}.cc and pdftosrc{,-newpoppler,-poppler*}.cc in texk/web2c/pdftexdir. You should establish which version of poppler is installed and use the appropriate versions of these files.

Similarly, 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 /opt/texlive/2020.

The shared libraries will be installed into a texlive directory. As the root user, add it to your /etc/ld.so.conf:

cat >> /etc/ld.so.conf << EOF
# Begin texlive 2020 addition

/opt/texlive/2020/lib

# End texlive 2020 addition
EOF

TexLive ships with a very old version of poppler, and some updated files for newer versions. To use the system version, first identify it and then copy the correct versions of the updated files (please read the Caution above):

SYSPOP= &&
MYPOPPLER_MAJOR=$(pkg-config --modversion poppler | cut -d '.' -f1)
if [ "$MYPOPPLER_MAJOR" = "0" ]; then
    # if major was >=20, minor could start with 0 and not fit in octal
    # causing error from 'let' in bash.
    let MYPOPPLER_MINOR=$(pkg-config --modversion poppler | cut -d '.' -f2)
else
    # force a value > 85
    let MYPOPPLER_MINOR=99
fi
if [ "$MYPOPPLER_MINOR" -lt 85 ]; then
    # BLFS-9.1 uses 0.85.0, ignore earlier versions in this script.
    # If updating texlive on an older system, review the available
    # variants for pdftoepdf and pdftosrc to use system poppler.
    SYSPOP=
else
    SYSPOP="--with-system-poppler --with-system-xpdf"
    if [ "$MYPOPPLER_MINOR" -lt 86 ]; then
        mv -v texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftoepdf{-poppler0.83.0,}.cc
    else # 0.86.0 or later, including 20.08.0.
        mv -v texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftoepdf{-poppler0.86.0,}.cc
    fi
    # For pdftosrc BLFS-9.1 uses 0.83.0 and that is the latest variant.
    mv -v texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftosrc{-poppler0.83.0,}.cc
fi &&
export SYSPOP &&
unset MYPOPPLER_{MAJOR,MINOR}

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/') &&

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

../configure                                                    \
    --prefix=/opt/texlive/2020                                  \
    --bindir=/opt/texlive/2020/bin/$TEXARCH                     \
    --datarootdir=/opt/texlive/2020                             \
    --includedir=/opt/texlive/2020/include                      \
    --infodir=/opt/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/doc/info             \
    --libdir=/opt/texlive/2020/lib                              \
    --mandir=/opt/texlive/2020/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                                        \
    ${SYSPOP}                                                   \
    --with-system-zlib                                          \
    --with-banner-add=" - BLFS" &&

make &&
unset SYSPOP

To test the results, issue: make -k check. One of the Kpathsea tests will fail because BLFS uses system libraries.

Now, as the root user:

make install-strip &&
/sbin/ldconfig &&
make texlinks &&
mkdir -pv /opt/texlive/2020/tlpkg/TeXLive/ &&
install -v -m644 ../texk/tests/TeXLive/* /opt/texlive/2020/tlpkg/TeXLive/ &&
tar -xf ../../texlive-20200406-tlpdb-full.tar.gz -C /opt/texlive/2020/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-20200406-texmf.tar.xz -C /opt/texlive/2020 --strip-components=1

Still as the root user, initialise the new system (the commands fmtutil-sys --all and mtxrun --generate will produce a lot of output):

mktexlsr &&
fmtutil-sys --all &&
mtxrun --generate

You can now proceed to asymptote-2.70, biber-2.16, dvisvgm-2.11.1 and / or xindy-2.5.1 if you wish to install them.