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TexLive 2014 #113

Closed mykelk closed 10 years ago

mykelk commented 10 years ago

JuliaBox currently uses TexLive 2013, but packages like PGFPlots.jl and BayesNets.jl require TexLive 2014. Additionally, TexLive 2013 cannot be updated through tlmgr. See: http://askubuntu.com/questions/486170/upgrade-from-tex-live-from-2013-to-2014-on-ubuntu-14-04 I don't know of a PPA with 2014 (but it might be out there), but instructions for a direct install can be found in the link above.

tanmaykm commented 10 years ago

I could install texlive 2014, but the full install bloats the JuliaBox image from 3GB to 6GB. I installed using the profile here: https://gist.github.com/tanmaykm/08ff066845669e303568

I was not sure which packages can be pruned out. Is there any way to know what the default ubuntu package includes?

mykelk commented 10 years ago

Yeah, that is probably too much bloat. I think you can get away with the default install rather than the full install. We want lualatex, we don't really need things like xelatex, pstricks, all the different language packages, omega, and context. Any additional packages can be installed by the user through tlmgr.

ViralBShah commented 10 years ago

@tanmaykm How far away are we from doing custom images? This may be a use case for having a custom docker image. Of course, if we can do the trimmed down version - that's ideal for now.

tanmaykm commented 10 years ago

Trimmed texlive 2014 added in https://github.com/JuliaLang/JuliaBox/commit/2001c58894a1d743f397d14d67dfd5eeb47a33f3.

Custom images are not ready yet, but we should have some initial form out quickly.

mykelk commented 10 years ago

Wow. Everything works beautifully for me now---out of the box. I'll let my class know about it today. Thanks for taking care of this!