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--- howtos:how_to_install_tex_live_on_linux [2026-01-24 07:40 am] – hcho
+++ howtos:how_to_install_tex_live_on_linux [2026-01-24 08:57 am] (current) – hcho
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 ====== How to install TeX Live on Linux ======
-Slackware installs [[https://www.tug.org/texlive/|TeX Live]] by default. However, extra packages and documentation require root permissions to install. This HOWTO explains how to install TeX Live as a non-root user.
+Slackware installs [[https://www.tug.org/texlive/|TeX Live]] by default. However, extra packages and documentation require root permissions to install (''texlive-extra'' and ''texlive-docs''), and they are not a full installation. This HOWTO explains how to install TeX Live as a non-root user.
 ===== Shared non-root installation =====
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 For other users,
 <code bash>
+# create the same directory structure
+mkdir -p ~/usr/local/opt ~/usr/local/share/texmf
+# create a symbolic link to the above installation
+ln -sf ~hcho/usr/local/opt/texlive ~/usr/local/opt
 # add paths to TeX Live
 cat << 'EOT' >> ~/.bash_profile
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 Use [[https://www.tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html|tlmgr]] (already installed with TeX Live) to install new packages.
+===== LaTeX editing =====
 You can use [[https://kile.sourceforge.io/|Kile]] (already installed by Slackware) to edit and compile LaTeX files. If you like Vim or Neovim, [[https://github.com/lervag/vimtex|VimTeX]] is a great plugin.
 For reference management, [[https://www.jabref.org/|JabRef]] is good for [[https://www.bibtex.org/|BibTeX]]. I can install it for you.