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Both texlive and miktex allow selectively installing some packages only. AFAIK the difference is that miktex will show a popup saying «do you want to install fo

Both texlive and miktex allow selectively installing some packages only. AFAIK the difference is that miktex will show a popup saying «do you want to install foopackage?» when you try to compile a document which uses foopackage, and you don’t have foopackage on your system. Kinda like on ubuntu, you get «you can install this command by running apt-get install foopackage».

nanna 8y ago
But isn't that quite a big difference? MiKTeX will actively download and install the extra package for you there and then, whereas with TeXLive you'll need to rerun the installer (?) or download the packages from CTAN? I must admit I speak as a Linux user who's installed TeX on Windows machines, but not really gone into detail myself, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
- maxnoe 8y ago
  You just run tlmgr install <package>
  - nanna 8y ago
    Whaaaa... I had no idea. Thank you!
- pletnes 8y ago
  It’s a big difference, but the parent post indicated that partial installation was not possible at all. At least that was my understanding.