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What to do after mirroring TeX Live Tex?
After successfully mirroring, you can run the regular TL installer, either one of the install-tl* scripts in your new local repository directory, or unpack install-tl. {tar.gz,zip}, etc. See the installation instructions or read the documentation, which has an item about the -in-place installation option .
How to find a TeX Live repository for a certain?
Set it as default package repository, so do something like tlmgr option repository http://some mirror site.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/ but of course for your own link. When that mirror updates, this may break your installation of packages again.
Which is the best tool for mirroring Tex?
If rsync is problematic for whatever reason, you can use wget (or other tools) to mirror via http or ftp. Here is a sample wget invocation: with the same somectan and somepath as above. (The –background, –no-host-directories, and/or –cut-dirs options may be useful. Full wget documentation .)
How is TeX Live installed over the Internet?
With this network-based installation method, what gets installed is the currently available versions of packages and programs. This is in contrast with the other installation methods , which are kept stable between public releases. Continuing package updates can be done with tlmgr.
How to install TeX Live packages on CRAN?
The most complicated thing is the CTAN mirrors—tlmgr chooses a random (fastest) mirror each time, so you could have installed TeX Live 2021 successfully with install_tinytex (), but tlmgr_install () could install packages from another CRAN mirror that still has TeX Live 2020.
Can you run install-TL-windows directly from a mirror?
However, if you are on Windows, to run install-tl-windows directly you must ensure that all the *.bat, *.dll, and *.manifest files are executable. Either the mirroring software or the original mirror often clears executable permissions.