[tex-live] TexLive portable

Siep Kroonenberg siepo at cybercomm.nl
Wed Mar 12 17:01:09 CET 2014


On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 04:23:12PM +0100, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 2014-03-12 at 00:18:51 +0100, benny wrote:
> 
>  > Hi everyone,
>  > 
>  > I have one short (and maybe stupid) question:
>  > 
>  > When I install the portable version of TeXLive to a USB Stick, will it 
>  > only contain the executables for the OS I use installing?
>  > 
>  > I thought this portable version would be a great way to wander between 
>  > my Linux Laptop and my wife's Windows machine...
>  > 
>  > To me it looks like there are only the Win binaries installed (yes, I 
>  > used my wife's pc to install the portable version to the USB)... but I 
>  > am not sure anyway where exactly I would look for the Linux 
>  > applications, so maybe I'm just blind.

Under Windows, you cannot choose additional binaries, neither with
the installer, nor with tlmgr. Under Linux you can.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg



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