[tex-live] On the TeX Live distribution and package manager for Ubuntu

[Sridhar M.A.]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 08:48:22AM +0100, Bernhard Kleine wrote:
   > 
   > i am in the same situation. with the previous version I had I could
   > produce a tex-dummy package which took care of all the dependencies and
   > remove tl2007. 
   > 
   > With ubuntu 10.10 this turned out much more complicated 

A couple of days back installed Linux Mint 10 (based on Ubuntu 10.10) on
a colleague's machine. Installed texlive-dummy and then installed kile
via apt-get as

   $ apt-get --no-install-recommends install kile

That prevented the pulling in of texlive from the ubuntu repo. Installed
TL10 and everything is working fine. You can try that.

If you are using synpatic, maybe there is an option/switch not to pull
in the recommended packages.

Regards,

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