[tex-live] Using a --profile and relative TEXDIR
Joseph Wright
joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk
Wed Sep 23 21:18:09 CEST 2015
Hello all,
I'm trying to set up some automation for a test system. Part of that
requires doing an unattended TL installation. Following the instructions
on https://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html, I've first done a
manual installation to get a texlive.profile file, then used that for an
automated install after removing the TeX system.
All is fine if I use an absolutely unaltered file. However, as I'm not
using sudo I did the install in my home dir. That results in
TEXDIR /home/joseph/texlive
TEXMFCONFIG ~/.texlive2015/texmf-config
TEXMFHOME ~/texmf
TEXMFLOCAL /home/joseph/texlive/texmf-local
TEXMFSYSCONFIG /home/joseph/texlive/texmf-config
TEXMFSYSVAR /home/joseph/texlive/texmf-var
TEXMFVAR ~/.texlive2015/texmf-var
where ~ has been expanded in the 'system' vars. If I edit them back to ~
then the installer fails. However, for my real use I can't rely on ~
expanding to anything fixed: how do I make this work?
(At present I'm going with install to /tmp as I can write there.)
Joseph
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