4.34 Installation of texlive 2014 on Linux

Download the .gz file from http://ctan.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/

install-tl-unx.tar.gz 16-Jun-2014 18:26  3.2M

Then extract

gunzip install-tl-unx.tar.gz 
tar -xvf install-tl-unx.tar
 

Then move to the folder created from the above and do

sudo ./install-tl 
 
Make sure to change the paper type to letter. The default is 
A4. 
 
Enter command: I 
Installing to: /usr/local/texlive/2014 
.... 
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 Add /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/doc/info to INFOPATH. 
 Add /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/doc/man to MANPATH 
   (if not dynamically found). 
 
 Most importantly, add /usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/i386-linux 
 to your PATH for current and future sessions. 
 
 Welcome to TeX Live! 
 
 Summary of warning messages during installation: 
   Partial download of http://mirror.jmu.edu/pub/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/chletter.doc.tar.xz found, removing it. 
 
Logfile: /usr/local/texlive/2014/install-tl.log 
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4.34.1 post installation for tex4ht issues

I need to fix/add few things after texlive is installed for tex4ht. This is a summary of the items to do.

  1. When using standalone package, this error will show up with tex4ht only

    (/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/xkeyval.tex 
    (/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/keyval.tex))) 
    ! Extra \else. 
    l.227     \else 
     
    ? x
     
    

    There is a patch for this. Get the updated standalone.sty and replace the current installed one with it. The standalong.sty can be found at https://bitbucket.org/martin_scharrer/standalone/raw/635aacfa0e8f2cba4 f4086f4f15d57791b18bf64/standalone.sty

    Replace the file /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/standalone/standalone With it. Now this problem will go away.

  2. Install make4ht
  3. fix tex4ht.env file to improve the fonts generated when making images for math. see elsewhere here for instructions. This step is not not needed any more, since I switched to make4ht for compiling, since make4ht does not use tex4ht.env, but if you are not using make4ht, then tex4ht.env is still used by standard htlatex command.