2 Structure and contents of the CD-ROM
The important CD-ROM top-level directories are listed below.
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bin
- The TeX family programs, arranged in separate platform directories.
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tldoc
- Documentation for TeX Live.
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FAQ
- Frequently Asked Questions, in English, French, and German.
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info
- Documentation in GNU ‘info’ format for the TeX system.
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man
- Documentation in the form of Unix man pages for the TeX system.
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source
- The source of all programs, including the main Web2c TeX and METAFONT distributions. These
are stored in a compressed tar archive.
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support
- Various bits of TeX-related software which are not installed by default, such as MusixTeX,
support programs, and a complete distribution of Ghostscript version 5.50.
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texmf
- The main support tree of macros, fonts and documentation;
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usergrps
- Material about TeX User Groups
There are also two installation scripts for Unix systems, install-cd.sh and install-pkg.sh; we discuss them
on in section 3 on p. 8.
2.1 The TDS tree
The TeX Live texmf tree consists of various ‘collections’, each of which has a set of
‘packages’, of which there are over 400 on the CD-ROM. Normal installation allows the user to copy all of a
collection to a local hard disk from the CD-ROM, but it is also possible to install just one package of a collection.
The collections are:
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ams
- The American Mathematical Society macro packages and fonts.
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bibtex
- BIBTeX styles and databases.
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doc
- General guides and documentation in various formats, including HTML and PDF.
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dvips
- Support for Rokicki’s DVI-to-PostScript driver.
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etex
- Support for e-TeX.
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fonts
- Font sources, metrics, PostScript and bitmap forms.
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formats
- Eplain, RevTeX, phyzzx, texsis, alatex, text1, lollipop, etc.
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generic
- Extra macros for use with any format.
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graphics
- Macro packages for graphics.
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lang
- Support for non-English languages.
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latex
- LaTeX, including official tools and all LaTeX2e contributed packages.
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metapost
- Support for MetaPost.
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omega
- Support for
.
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pdftex
- Support for pdfTeX
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plain
- Macros for plain TeX.
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systems
- Binaries for Unix and Win32 platforms.
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texlive
- Basic material for the distribution.
Each of the collections is divided into basic (1), recommended (2) and other (3). All packages in collection latex1
are what one must have to get started with LaTeX, packages in latex2 are recommended for most users, and
latex3 contains optional packages. The directory texmf/tpm contains lists of all files in each package (used by
the installation programs).