[tex-live] Distributing Customised TeX Live

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005, Karl Berry wrote:

> I think some environment variables have to be set in autoexec.bat (or
> whatever) -- PATH and TEXMFTEMP, at least.  I don't think any registry
> entries are needed?

TEXMFTEMP is a new one to me.  Is this where temporary fonts etc are
written to?  If it is, I believe some long-term headaches may just be
getting solved.

> Not that I've seen (I'd love to have one).  The TL install doc talks
> somewhat about a central installation on Unix.  I can't write anything
> about Windows mechanisms, though, lacking first-hand experience ...

I don't have much experience either as I tend to install through unix.
However it is used through linux.  I'll see if I can pull together what
little I know and stick it up somewhere.  If anyone else has helpful things
to add (eg best way to add ghostscript utils) please post it.

> It's not about distribution, but I'll mention that Fabrice did write
> something about installing the TL'04 binaries on Windows:
> http://tug.org/texlive/windows.html

This is also helpful,

Thanks
Gavin