Installing Tex Live Full in Arch Linux

Posted on Nov 8, 2020

You may encounter the following issues when installing text live full from here

and setting it up to work with TextStudio

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# pacman -S texstudio

Error 1: No such file or directory

This error is shown when you run these series of command

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# git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/texlive-full.git

# cd texlive-full

# makepkg -sri

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WARNING: Using existing $srcdir/ tree
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
/home/josphat/.cache/yay/texlive-full/PKGBUILD: line 29: /home/josphat/.cache/yay/texlive-full/src/install-tl-20200704/install-tl: No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...
Error making: texlive-full

The Fix/Work Around Change PKGBUILD’S file pkgver from $date "+%Y%m%d" to pkgver="20200706". You obtain this date from the downloaded directory path texlive-full/src/install-tl-<date>

Error 2: xelatex command not found

Set Path to Tex Binaries permanently, in .profile file

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export PATH="/opt/texlive/2020/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH"

or else you can create this file texlive-full.sh in /etc/profile.d/ before you begin installation as shown in error 1 above

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_year=2020
[ -d /opt/texlive/${_year}/bin/x86_64-linux ] && export PATH=$PATH:/opt/texlive/${_year}/bin/x86_64-linux
[ -d /opt/texlive/${_year}/texmf-dist/doc/man ] && export MANPATH=:$MANPATH:/opt/texlive/${_year}/texmf-dist/doc/man
[ -d /opt/texlive/${_year}/texmf-dist/doc/info ] && export INFOPATH=:$MANPATH:/opt/texlive/${_year}/texmf-dist/doc/info

Then

$ source ~/.profile

or after login $ tex --version should show you the tex version verbose.

Error 3: You can’t compile the document in a non writable directory

If you run this series of commands to make the directory where you.tex files reside writable. As in

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# su
# Password:
# chmod 0777 -R resume-cover-letter/
# ls -la .

This show the directory as writable

drwxr-xr-x 4 josphat josphat 4096 Jul  7 15:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 josphat josphat 4096 Jun 28 15:51 ..
drwxr-xr-x 6 josphat josphat 4096 Jun 28 22:17 configurations
drwxrwxrwx 5 josphat josphat 4096 Jul  8 08:44 resume-cover-letter

But it is bug in Arch,that texstudio flagged as won’t fix.

http://sourceforge.net/p/texstudio/bugs/1814

Work Around The work around is to compile the files via terminal

# xelatex cover-letter.tex