{Distributing \TeX\ and friends: methods, pitfalls, advice} {Norbert Preining} {The \TeX\ environment has grown slowly but steadily to a huge collection of programs, fonts, macro packages, support packages. \TeX\ Live currently ships about 2\,\acro{GB} in more than 2000 different \TeX\ Live ``packages''. As te\TeX\ stopped being developed and supported several years ago, \TeX\ Live has become the main \TeX\ distribution on Unix, including \MacOSX\ (Mac\TeX\ is exactly \TeX\ Live plus a few Mac-specific additions); it is also gaining on Windows (where MiK\TeX\ is still strong). Integrating \TeX\ Live into any full operating system distribution is a non-trivial task due to the large number of post installation tasks that have to be performed. Although over the last years the quality of packages has improved, the \TeX\ Live development list still often gets bug reports that stem from incorrect packaging. This talk gives an overview of the structure of \TeX\ Live and a list of important and special configuration files. Furthermore, based on the experience of packaging \TeX\ Live over many years, we will give some advice and examples on best practices. The talk is not targeted specifically for Debian, but at any distribution that redistributes \TeX\ Live in one way or another. }