TeX Live

{{Short description|Distribution of TeX and related software}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}

{{Infobox software

| name = TeX Live

| logo = Texlive-yearless.svg

| logo size = 240px

| screenshot = tex live screenshot.png

| screenshot size = 240px

| caption =

| author = TeX Users Group

| developer = Karl Berry

| released = 1996

| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|P348|P548=Q2804309}} | latest release date = {{Start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}|df=yes}}

| latest preview version =

| latest preview date =

| programming language =

| operating system = FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, Solaris, Windows

| platform =

| language = English, Czech/Slovak, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese

| genre = TeX distribution

| license = LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), GPL (Version 2)

| website = {{URL|www.tug.org/texlive/}}

| replaces = teTeX

}}

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

{{cite web

| url = http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta/812

| title = teTeX: no next release

| author = Thomas Esser

| accessdate = 20 November 2009

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091221083814/http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta/812

| archive-date = 21 December 2009

| url-status = dead}}

counterpart teTeX.

{{cite web

| url = http://www.tug.org/texlive/

| title = TeX Live

| accessdate =19 November 2009

}}

It is now the default TeX distribution for several Linux distributions such as

openSUSE,

{{cite web

| url = http://software.opensuse.org/package/texlive?search_term=%22texlive%22

| title = openSUSE Software Search - TeX Live Packages

| accessdate =31 July 2016

}}

Fedora,

{{cite web

| url = http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureTexLive

| title = Fedora Wiki - TeX Live Migration

| accessdate =19 November 2009

}}

Debian,

{{cite web

| url = http://packages.debian.org/en/jessie/texlive

| title = Debian -- Details of package texlive in jessie

| accessdate =24 January 2016

}}

{{cite web

| url = http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html

| title = TeX Live and Debian

| accessdate =19 November 2009

}} Slackware,{{Cite web |title=Index of /slackware/slackware-15.0/slackware/t |url=https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-15.0/slackware/t/ |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=mirrors.slackware.com}} Ubuntu,

{{cite web

| url = http://packages.ubuntu.com/en/wily/texlive

| title = Ubuntu – Details of package texlive in wily

| accessdate =24 January 2016

}}

Termux{{cite web|url=https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/TeX_Live |title=TeX Live Package Management |publisher=The Termux Wiki}} and Gentoo.

{{cite web

|url = http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gmn/20080930-newsletter.xml

|title = Gentoo Monthly Newsletter: 30 September 2008

|accessdate = 7 March 2010

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://archive.today/20130112193743/http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gmn/20080930-newsletter.xml

|archivedate = 12 January 2013}}

Other Unix operating systems like OpenBSD,

{{cite journal

| author = Edward Barrett

| editor = Barbara Beeton

|date=June 2008

| title = Porting TeX Live to OpenBSD

| journal = TUGboat

| volume = 29

| issue = 2

| pages = 303–304

| publisher = TeX Users Group

| location = Portland, Oregon, United States

| issn = 0896-3207

| url = http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-2/tb92barrett.pdf

| accessdate =19 November 2009

}} FreeBSD

{{cite web

| url = https://github.com/smortex/freebsd-texlive

| title = FreeBSD ports for TeX Live

| accessdate =24 January 2016

}} and NetBSD

{{cite web

|url = http://sup.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/pkgsrc/print/texlive-tetex/README.html

|title = The NetBSD Packages Collection: print/texlive-tetex

|accessdate = 19 November 2009

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110727115350/http://sup.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/pkgsrc/print/texlive-tetex/README.html

|archivedate = 27 July 2011

}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tug.org/texlive/|title=TeX Live - TeX Users Group|website=tug.org|access-date=2019-07-21}}

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.{{cite web

| url = http://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#news

| title = Release notes for TeX Live 2009

| accessdate =20 November 2009

}}

For macOS there is MacTeX,{{cite web

| url = http://www.tug.org/mactex/

| title = MacTeX

| accessdate =20 November 2009

}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tug.org/mactex/newfeatures.html|title=New Features - MacTeX - TeX Users Group|website=tug.org|access-date=2019-07-21}} TeX Live can also be compiled and installed through MacPorts or Homebrew.