How to install Tex live in a different directory than default one?

Question

As I dont have sudo or root access, I want to install Tex live at a different location but install-tl doesn't have any option for this. Is there any other workaround?

Default Path is: /usr/local/texlive/2014

Irby

Answer 1

install-tl looks for some enviroment variables when executed. TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX has a default value of /usr/local/texlive and TEXLIVE_INSTALL_TEXDIR of /usr/local/texlive/2014.

Try to change those variable for the directory that you want to install, like:

TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/your_user/texlive
TEXLIVE_INSTALL_TEXDIR=/home/your_user/texlive/2014

I never tried this, but it might work.

You can read this and this for more information.

Procession

Worked for me too! – Wag

Yes, it works. To be more specific, after perl install-tl one should hit D and type in new directory there. – Hyperacidity

Alternatively $ perl ./install-tl -texdir ~/.local/texlive/2022 --no-interaction works. The option -texdir is described in the installer's documentation that can be seen with perl ./install-tl --help which requires the perl-doc package (in Ubuntu). – Overdevelop

Answer 2

I did the following 3 steps

1. ./install-tl > Enter command: P
2. sed -i 's|/usr/local/|~/|g' texlive.profile Modifies generated texlive.profile to replace all occurances of /usr/local/ with ~/
3. Run ./install-tl -profile texlive.profile

Martinmas