Texlive old install support

[Philip Taylor]

Joseph Wright wrote:

>
> Oops, sorry, a bit more detail needed.
>
> One can update between *some* TeX Live installs, but it's not really recommended. Rather, I'd go to
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>     ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/
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> and download the network installer for the year I wanted (they are in per-year directories), unpack it then do
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>     install-tl -repository ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/<year>/tlnet-final
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> This is exactly what I did to set up my laptop: that works back to at least 2009. (Really, anyone needing TL pre-2009 must have very unusual requirements: I tend not to need anything before about 2012 nowadays.)
>
> Joseph

Fine, thank you Joseph — all understood.  It just so happens that a major project started life in 2008, which is why I go back so far, but in practice it doesn't break until 2016/17.
** Phil.

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