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Removing unwanted language files from texlive.

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Sharon Kimble

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Oct 4, 2014, 7:20:02 AM10/4/14
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I've installed texlive getting *everything* which also includes getting
many language files that I am never going to use, such as cjk [japanese
I think], etc. How do I go about removing them in a sane way please? Is
it as simple as `sudo apt-get remove texlive-lang-*', and then just
adding back those that I do actually want and need, please? Will this
autorun things like `mktexlsr' which seems to be needed a lot judging by
today’s tex update?

Thanks
Sharon.
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John Hasler

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Oct 4, 2014, 9:20:02 AM10/4/14
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You probably want to remove the texlive package (which pulls in most
texlive packages) and install texlive-lang-european .
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Jörg-Volker Peetz

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Oct 5, 2014, 10:00:02 AM10/5/14
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How did you install texlive?

What is the output of

apt-mark showmanual | grep texlive

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Sharon Kimble

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Oct 7, 2014, 8:50:01 PM10/7/14
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Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvp...@web.de> writes:

> How did you install texlive?
>
> What is the output of
>
> apt-mark showmanual | grep texlive
>
> ?
Through the jessie repository.

Your command gives the output - texlive-full
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Jörg-Volker Peetz

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Oct 8, 2014, 3:30:02 AM10/8/14
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My question "How did you install" was more aiming at the tool/application or
command you were using to install texlive.
Anyhow, I'd suggest to replace the texlive-full package by texlive and install
any additional TeX-package manually afterwards.
For package management I'm using aptitude. Therefore I've not tested the
following commands to achieve the replacement of texlive-full by texlive:

apt-get install texlive
apt-mark auto texlive-full
apt-get autoremove

Especially, the last command may remove many even non texlive-related packages.
A dry-run, as

apt-get -s autoremove

could help to decide if other packages should be marked as "manually installed"
before actually "autoremoving".
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