tlenv: TeX Live version manager tool on Unix-like systems

TeX Live version manager tool inspired by rbenv

Getting started

1. Install tlenv in local

git clone https://github.com/munepi/tlenv.git ~/.tlenv
cd ~/.tlenv
git clone https://github.com/munepi/tlenv-texlive-install.git  plugins/texlive-install

If you use Mac with Apple silicon, then you may install the following plugin.

git clone https://github.com/munepi/tlenv-texlive-install-darwin.git  plugins/texlive-install-darwin

2. Setup tlenv

export PATH=~/.tlenv/bin:${PATH}
if which tlenv > /dev/null; then eval "$(tlenv init -)"; fi

3. Try to install the latest TeX Live version

tlenv install current

...

Installed current to /Users/<your account>/.tlenv/versions/current


NOTE: to activate this TeX Live version as the new default, run: tlenv global current

Enjoy Happy TeXing!

Installing previous TeX Live versions

You can install TeX Live from previous versions, such as TeX Live 2010 frozen, up to the latest version.

For example, if you use TeX Live YYYY (year) frozen, then you can install TeX Live YYYY by executing the following.

tlenv install YYYY

Additionally, you can specify other mirror historic archive for the environment variable TEXLIVE_INSTALL_TLNET as shown below.

TEXLIVE_INSTALL_TLNET=https://<MIRROR HISTORIC ARCHIVE>/systems/texlive/YYYY/tlnet-final/ tlenv install YYYY

The list of TUG official mirrors are Historic archive of TeX material - TeX Users Group.

Plugins

• texlive-install: TeX Live installation
• texlive-install-darwin: TeX Live installation for macOS (Darwin)
• texlive-install-haranoajifonts: install the latest HaranoAjiFonts when installing TeX Live
• shared-texmflocal: shared TEXMFLOCAL
• tlnet-texjporg: setup tlnet on texlive.texjp.org for the previous TeX Live versions

License

This program is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.

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Munehiro Yamamoto https://github.com/munepi