[tex-live] Up to date TL 2016 available on Debian

Denis Bitouzé denis.bitouze at univ-littoral.fr
Thu Apr 27 00:31:38 CEST 2017


Le 27/04/17 à 07h26, Norbert Preining a écrit :

> Hi Denis,

Hi Norbert,

>> 1. by vanilla TL, I meant the one installed from the TeX Collection DVD
>>   or the official `texlive2016.iso' file (available since 23-May-2016)
>> 2. by "frozen for ever", I meant the previous one installed but updated
>>   after a recent `tlmgr update --self --all' (with the message "TeX Live
>>   2016 is frozen forever and will no longer be updated.  This happens in
>>   preparation for a new release.").
>
> Ok, in this case there is no DVD/iso version of what is in the frozen
> state.  The last tlnet dir is the only source, and is currently still
> on CTAN, and will be later available on some archives.

OK.

>> I'm not sure to understand: the latest packages available in testing
>> and unstable are very close to 1. or to 2. above?
>
> Very close to 2.

Nice!

> Differences:
> * updates of normal packages have stopped a bit earlier due to
>   freeze of Debian pre-release
> * binaries are more uptodate with many bugfixes backported into
>   the Debian packages

Could let me know what's the command line(s) to run in order to
get installed what is very close to 2?

Thanks!
-- 
Denis



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