Re: How to install Texinfo with along with required Tex packages?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ozhap <ozhap@vollbio.de> writes:

> Abhiseck Paira wrote:
>
> > > I could install the texlive package, but I don't have that 
> > > much free
> > > space to waste. What I want is a minimal installation.
> >
> > Though this doesn't really answer your questions, I also wanted 
> > to do a
> > minimal texlive installation and didn't want to install the big 
> > texlive
> > package. So someone told me to install 'texlive-tiny' instead 
> > for a
> > minimal texlive installation.
> >
> > I haven't tried it yet but is this information correct?
>
> According to the source comments, texlive-tiny is only for use 
> in
> package definitions. I use texlive-base instead.

The use of texlive-base is correct.

On top of that install whatever texlive-* package may be needed. 
(I usually go by error messages to figure out the minimal set of 
packages.)

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Ricardo