Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Install Tex Live in Windows and Linux, Add Liberation Fonts



TeX Live is a free software distribution for the TeX typesetting system that includes major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts. Textlive can be installed in Windows or Linux. (Around 3GB)
Texlive can be downloaded from:
https://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html

1) For Windows, run
install-tl-windows.exe

default location
C:\texlive\2014

2)  Add new font, such as Liberation Fonts
If you want to add extra ttf  fonts, such as The Liberation(tm) Fonts, which can be downloaded from:
https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/
under C:\texlive\2014\texmf-dist\fonts\truetype\public
create directory liberation
copy all ttf liberation font files to liberation  directory.

For Linux, create directory liberation under /usr/share/fonts/
copy all ttf liberation font file to /usr/share/fonts/liberation

3)  Installation for Redhat Linux
 $  wget http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz
$  tar xf install-tl-unx.tar.gz
$  cd 'directory where file extracted'
$  sudo ./intall-tl
$  O
$  L
  
        Choose the following:
    (1)   New value for binary directory [/usr/local/bin]: /usr/bin
    (Type /usr/bin.)
    (2)   New value for man directory [/usr/man]:
    (Do not type anything.)
    (3)   New value for info directory [/usr/info]:
    (Do not type anything.)
$  R
$  I
You may also need to install PDFtk:
$ wget http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk-2.02-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
$ sudo yum install jre-gcj
$ sudo rpm -Uvh pdftk-2.02-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

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