[tex-live] tlmgr on Ubuntu linux?

[Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard]

Axel E. Retif a écrit :
> That's what I did (install TeX Live on Ubuntu), and I'm very happy with
> it. The only glitch you have to be aware of, is that if you want to use
> Synaptic to install an application that depends on TeX Live (say, the
> front-end TeXmaker), you're told you have first to install TeX Live...
> 2007; that is, it doesn't recognize your 2008 distribution, or at least
> I didn't know how to tell Synaptic I already had TeX Live. So I
> installed TeXmaker myself.
> 
The best way is to create a virtual package. It is rather easy using the
 'equivs' Debian package (should exist in Ubuntu, too). Here is a
tutorial (in French, sorry):

http://weblog.elzevir.fr/2008/11/tex-live-2008-a-la-vanille-sur-debian-like/

I can do a short English version if you think it can help.

Manuel.