TeX Live

TeX Live
Original author(s)TeX Users Group
Developer(s)Karl Berry
Initial release1996
Stable release
2024[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 12 March 2024; 8 months ago (12 March 2024)
Repository
Operating systemFreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, Solaris, Windows
PredecessorteTeX
Available inEnglish, Czech/Slovak, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese
TypeTeX distribution
LicenseLaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), GPL (Version 2)
Websitewww.tug.org/texlive/

TeX Live is a cross-platform, free software distribution for the TeX typesetting system that includes major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts. It is the replacement of its no-longer supported[2] counterpart teTeX.[3] It is now the default TeX distribution for several Linux distributions such as openSUSE,[4] Fedora,[5] Debian,[6][7] Slackware,[8] Ubuntu,[9] Termux[10] and Gentoo.[11] Other Unix operating systems like OpenBSD,[12] FreeBSD[13] and NetBSD[14] have also converted from teTeX to TeX Live.

The project was originally started by Sebastian Rahtz in 1996 in collaboration with the TeX user groups worldwide, including the TeX Users Group. Today, it is maintained by Karl Berry, Akira Kakuto, Luigi Scarso and many other people.[15]

Up to version 2009, TeX Live could be run directly, or "live", from a CD-ROM, from a DVD-ROM, or from any other mobile device, hence its name. As of TeX Live 2010, it was no longer possible to run the distribution from the TeX Collection DVD due to restrictions in storage space. TeX Live follows the TeX Directory Structure.

Since the 2009 release, the editor TeXworks is included for Microsoft Windows, as well as the vector graphics language Asymptote.[16]

For macOS there is MacTeX,[17] which comprises the full TeX Live distribution as well as some additional tools for using TeX on the Mac, most notably the editor TeXShop and the bibliography manager BibDesk. Similar to Basic MikTeX in MikTeX, a substantially smaller download, BasicTeX, can also be used for Mac as well.[18] TeX Live can also be compiled and installed through MacPorts or Homebrew.

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  10. ^ "TeX Live Package Management". The Termux Wiki.
  11. ^ "Gentoo Monthly Newsletter: 30 September 2008". Archived from the original on 12 January 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  12. ^ Edward Barrett (June 2008). Barbara Beeton (ed.). "Porting TeX Live to OpenBSD" (PDF). TUGboat. 29 (2). Portland, Oregon, United States: TeX Users Group: 303–304. ISSN 0896-3207. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
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  14. ^ "The NetBSD Packages Collection: print/texlive-tetex". Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
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  16. ^ "Release notes for TeX Live 2009". Retrieved 20 November 2009.
  17. ^ "MacTeX". Retrieved 20 November 2009.
  18. ^ "New Features - MacTeX - TeX Users Group". tug.org. Retrieved 21 July 2019.