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@@ -3,27 +3,79 @@ Unfortunately it is not yet possible to have an overlay that works out of the box, therefore you'll have to do a few things to be able to install texlive 2007. +If you're reading this from the Trac web interface, you might want to install +subversion and checkout this overlay : +$ svn co http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/dev/aballier/ + First, download both live and inst isos of texlive from -http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/Images/ +http://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html +You'll need both, if you have an idea on how to use only one of the isos, just +email me ! + +For example : + +$ cd DOWNLOADDIR +$ wget http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/texcollection/texlive/texlive-live.iso.zip +$ wget http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/texcollection/texlive2007-inst-20070212.iso + Then, mount the images : the default location is /mnt/texlive-inst for inst iso, and /mnt/texlive-live for live iso. +For example (you'll need to be root to mount the images or modify /mnt) + +# mkdir -p /mnt/texlive-live/ +# mkdir -p /mnt/texlive-inst/ +# unzip texlive-live.iso.zip +# mount -o loop -t iso9660 texlive2007-live-20070212.iso /mnt/texlive-live/ +# mount -o loop -t iso9660 texlive-inst.iso /mnt/texlive-inst/ + + Copy /mnt/texlive-live/source/source.tar.bz2 as texlive-source-2007.tar.bz2 in your distfiles dir. +For example (you'll need at least to be in the portage group to execute this +command) : + +$ cp -a /mnt/texlive-live/source/source.tar.bz2 /usr/portage/distfiles/texlive-source-2007.tar.bz2 + -Once that done, you have to generate the ebuilds for the modular texmf tree, go + +Once that is done, you have to generate the ebuilds for the modular texmf tree, go to scripts/texlive/lists subdir and you'll find another README file :) If you want a simpler approach, just go to scripts/texlive subdir and type make. -It should do the right thing for you. +It should do the right thing for you if you have mounted the images to the +default location and PORTDIR and DISTDIR are defined in /etc/make.conf + +At this point, it is ok to unmount texlive's isos : + +# umount /mnt/texlive-live/ +# umount /mnt/texlive-inst/ If you've gone through all those steps, you're ready to install texlive ! -Just append texlive-overlay to your portage overlay and type "emerge texlive". +Well, in fact, you're almost ready : +Just append texlive-overlay subdir to your portage overlay, for example, +if you're in a terminal in the directory where this README file is, just type : + +# echo "PORTDIR_OVERLAY=\"\${PORTDIR_OVERLAY} ${PWD}/texlive-overlay\"" >> /etc/make.conf + +Due to some packages being masked globally in the portage tree, you'll need to +unmask them first : +# echo 'dev-tex/xcolor' >> /etc/portage/package.unmask +# echo 'app-text/texlive' >> /etc/portage/package.unmask + + +Now, you should be ready to install texlive : +# emerge texlive + +If you have tetex installed, please read tetex-to-texlive/Howto, it is a short +file that tries to report possible problems that can happen while switching. [ +This file is really incomplete, please report any problem you encountered so +that I can add it there ] Reporting bugs / improvements : Just contact me, aballier@gentoo.org, or on irc |