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From: Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: manually installing tex package groups in Ubuntu
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:55:29 +0530
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What's the minimum set of Ubuntu packages that need to be installed to
get a working tex system without the docs?  The full install seems
enormous and I'd like to use apt-get only to get the packages.

Any one has done this before?

sivaram
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