Lualatex and pdflatex missing with Tex Live 2018 minimum installation on Ubuntu 18.04
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Looking at the description of the installed scheme:
$ tlmgr info scheme-minimal
package: scheme-minimal
category: Scheme
shortdesc: minimal scheme (plain only)
longdesc: This is the minimal TeX Live scheme, with support for only plain TeX. (No LaTeX macros.) LuaTeX is included because Lua scripts are used in TeX Live infrastructure. This scheme corresponds exactly to collection-basic.
installed: Yes
revision: 13822
sizes: 65425k
relocatable: Yes
It tells you that it is collection-basic. Looking at that info again
$ tlmgr info collection-basic
package: collection-basic
category: Collection
shortdesc: Essential programs and files
longdesc: These files are regarded as basic for any TeX system, covering plain TeX macros, Computer Modern fonts, and configuration for common drivers; no LaTeX.
installed: Yes
revision: 45851
sizes: 65425k
relocatable: No
depends:
texlive.infra
amsfonts
bibtex
cm
dvipdfmx
dvips
enctex
etex
etex-pkg
glyphlist
graphics-def
gsftopk
hyph-utf8
hyphen-base
ifluatex
ifxetex
knuth-lib
knuth-local
kpathsea
lua-alt-getopt
luatex
makeindex
metafont
mflogo
mfware
pdftex
plain
tetex
tex
tex-ini-files
texlive-common
texlive-docindex
texlive-en
texlive-msg-translations
texlive-scripts
unicode-data
updmap-map
xdvi
You get the list of included packages, which shows nothing related to latex whatsoever.
I recommend installing scheme-medium
to get a reasonable selection.
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Adriaan
Updated on September 13, 2020Comments
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Adriaan about 3 years
I just installed Tex Live 2018 with the minimum scheme on Ubuntu 18.04. Apparently, this minimal scheme does not include applications like
lualatex
andpdflatex
in/usr/local/texlive/2018/bin/x86_64-linux
. I, unfortunately, cannot seem to find which package I should install withtlmgr
to obtain them.How do I install them?
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daleif about 5 yearsWhat exactly did you install? Ubuntus TexLive or the upstream TeXLive?
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aloneprism about 5 yearsIf you use the texlive installer, enter the
set installation collections
menu and selectLuaTeX packages
andLaTeX recommended packages
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Adriaan about 5 years@daleif I downloaded mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz and ran
install-tl
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Adriaan about 5 years@blub Ok clear. Do I understand correctly that these programs cannot be installed by means of
tlmgr
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Joseph Wright about 5 years@Adriaan They are installed with almost all collections: which one did you use? The binary packages are called things like
latex-bin
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David Carlisle about 5 yearspdflatex is just a symbolic link to pdftex, did that really not get made?
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daleif about 5 yearsIf you installed the minimal scheme, you only get the plain format as it clearly stated in the installer. You probably want the
basic
scheme, or just install everything like everyone else. Note thatbasic
probably does not includelualatex
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Adriaan about 5 years@JosephWright I installed the minimal scheme.
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Adriaan about 5 years@DavidCarlisle No it's not in the
bin
directory when you install the minimal scheme. -
David Carlisle about 5 yearsOK I always install everything:-) I suppose you get what you ask for then, minimally you could just use plain tex.
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Joseph Wright about 5 years@Adriaan Have your tried
tlmgr install latex-bin
? Assuming you have pdfTeX/LuaTeX themselves installed, that should do it. -
Adriaan about 5 years@JosephWright Setting the scheme to the option ` d [X] basic scheme (plain and latex)` solved the issue:
lualatex
andpdflatex
are present in/usr/local/texlive/2018/bin/x86_64-linux
. So I don't know iftlmgr install latex-bin
also solves the issue. Perhaps I'll try it later with a virtual machine and see if it also solves this issue. Thanks.
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