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What do I do with a DVD though? Can just download the tarball from online
by arianvanp 7y ago
What do I do with a DVD though? Can just download the tarball from online
- nanna 7y agoSure you can, if that's more convenient for you. Personally I find it much faster to install from the DVD, and I imagine I'm not alone.
- mruts 7y agoWhy don't you just use your package manager? That seems a lot simpler... and a lot less environmentally wasteful.
- jimhefferon 7y agoSometimes things in the package manager can be a bit out of date. For the great majority of LaTeX-ers it may well not matter, but some people want or need up to date. Some people also prefer the layout (where various configuration files are kept, for instance).
- mruts 7y agoBut the DVDs are once a year.. I find it hard to believe that if you cared about the most up-to-date LaTeX distribution you would update once a year via DVD.
- jimhefferon 7y agoI'm sorry? Tex Live, MacTeX, and MikTeX all have a utility that you use to make updates online. Something like this, for TeX Live. tlmgr update --all As for the CD distribution, which sometimes people point to as showing that TeX is somehow 90's-ish, I'll just say that the world is full of all kinds of people in all kinds of circumstances. People want them, so the developers provide them.
- analognoise 7y agoI don't even think I have anything to play DVDs anymore.