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Debian-specific information about TeX packages
Chapter 1 - Overview of the packages
The Debian teTeX packages are comprised of:
tetex-bin
-
provides the binary files
tetex-base
-
provides the most basic TeX and LaTeX input files, and will be sufficient for
some simple documents, e.g. to build the documentation of other Debian
packages (hopefully)
tetex-extra
-
contains lots of fonts and add-on packages for LaTeX and TeX development. If
you want to use LaTeX to write and format your own documents, you will probably
need many of these.
tetex-doc
-
the free part (according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines) of the
documentation for
tetex-bin
, tetex-base
and
tetex-extra
. It is not needed to build existing documents, but as
an author, you will for sure want to install it.
tetex-doc-nonfree
-
the non-free part (according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines) of the
documentation for
tetex-bin
, tetex-base
and
tetex-extra
tetex-src
-
the sources (i.e.,
.dtx
files) of all the TeX/LaTeX files in
tetex-base
and tetex-extra
, and of the documentation
in tetex-doc
. This package will only be needed by (La)TeX
developers, or if you want to look up licensing information.
The Debian TeX Live packages are comprised of (currently) 76 packages in total.
The most important are:
texlive-base-bin
-
provides the basic binaries and basic TeX input files
texlive-latex-base
-
provides the most basic LaTeX input files, and will be sufficient for some
simple documents
texlive-latex-recommended
-
a recommended set of LaTeX packages which are sufficient for most typesetting
purposes if you don't have any special requirements
texlive-fonts-recommended
-
a recommended set of fonts which are sufficient for most typesetting purposes
if you don't have any special requirements
texlive-context
-
the complete ConTeXt environment
texlive
-
a meta-package depending on a decent selection of packages, comprising all of
the above
texlive-full
-
a meta-package depending on all packages from the TeX Live group and on some
other packages to create something similar to a full TeX Live installation
texlive-doc-*
-
packages like
texlive-doc-en
and texlive-doc-de
provide documentation in the respective language
texlive-lang-*
-
packages like
texlive-lang-dutch
and
texlive-lang-spanish
provide language-specific support, like
hyphenation patterns
There are many more packages, providing extra functionality and extra fonts.
Please see the respective descriptions of these packages.
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