1. Install Tex Live manually with tlmgr functioning.

   Step-by-step installation instruction for Arch Linux is here.

   1. Set variable for Tex Live installation directory,

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      $ export TEXLIVE=$HOME/texlive

   2. Save Tex Live installation directory to shell script,

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      $ export SHELL_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc $ echo "TEXLIVE=$HOME/texlive" >> $SHELL_ENV

      If you use other shell (e.g. zsh) replace “.bashrc” with your shell environment script (e.g. .zshenv).

   3. Download network installer,

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      $ wget -c http://ossm.utm.my/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz #or here http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz

   4. Extract the installer,

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      $ tar zxvf install-tl-unx.tar.gz

   5. Change directory to extracted file,

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      $ cd install-tl-[date]

      Replace [date] with installer version.

   6. Set texlive installation directory,

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      $ export TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/texlive

   7. Execute installer,

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      $ ./install-tl

      To install with GUI, add “-gui” to parameter.

   8. if updating, copy personal package from old version

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      cp -rf /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/invoiceyst /home/tan/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ texhash

   9. The file system after installation

      The TDS is as follows after local installation, and there are more explanation here.

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      ├── 2017 │   ├── bin │   ├── doc.html │   ├── index.html │   ├── install-tl │   ├── install-tl.log │   ├── LICENSE.CTAN │   ├── LICENSE.TL │   ├── README │   ├── readme-html.dir │   ├── readme-txt.dir │   ├── README.usergroups │   ├── release-texlive.txt │   ├── texmf.cnf │   ├── texmfcnf.lua │   ├── texmf-config │   ├── texmf-dist │   ├── texmf-var │   └── tlpkg └── texmf-local             ├── bibtex             ├── doc             ├── dvips             ├── fonts             ├── ls-R             ├── metapost             ├── tex             ├── tlpkg             └── web2c

2. Follow here for system wide install, tlmgr does not work this way

3. after install, export path in ~/.bashrc

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   # for system-wide installation export PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2016/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH export MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/doc/man:$MANPATH export INFOPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/doc/info:$INFOPATH # for local installation export PATH=$HOME/2016/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH   export MANPATH=$HOME/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/doc/man:$MANPATH export INFOPATH=$HOME/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/doc/info:$INFOPATH source ~/.bashrc

4. To set up the TEX Live fonts for system-wide use. (assuming you have suitable privileges), proceed as follows. Copy the texlive-fontconfig.conf file to /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf.

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   sudo cp TEXMFSYSVAR/fonts/conf/texlive-fontconfig.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf fc-cache -fsv.

5. Some useful command:

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   tlmgr info url tlmgr option tlmgr install <package> sudo tlmgr -gui tlmgr update --list tlmgr update --all tlmgr conf # to check the TDS tree kpsewhich <filename.sty> texdoc invoice kpsewhich -var TEXMFLOCAL  #get local directory texhash  #update database mk

You should not manually install files into usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/<package name>/*. Instead, install local .sty files in TEXMFLOCAL, if they should be available to all users, or into TEXMFHOME, if they are specific to you. Use kpsewhich -var TEXMFLOCAL to get the local directory and install into <local directory>/tex/latex/<package name>. The TEXMFHOME directory will automatically be searched when TeX tools are executed. If you use TEXMFLOCAL, you need to update the database as described above in order for the files to be found.

If you have the very specific problem of babelbib not having the latest language definitions that you need, and you do not want to recompile everything, you can get them manually from https://www.tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/babelbib/ and put them in usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/babelbib. For example:

Afterwards, you need to run texhash to update the TeX database:

1. Instructions for Debian here.
2. [ ] http://www.draketo.de/english/emacs/writing-papers-in-org-mode-acpd
3. [ ] Tex Live in Arch linux, instruction here
4. [ ] Org-mode LaTex here
5. [ ] Download and install Elsevier’s elsarticle Document Class, and wikipage
6. [ ] Koma-script, download and install
7. [ ] elsarticle template here
8. [ ] Kitchener’s instruction
9. [ ] LaTex’s community
10. [ ]

    how to use styles-excepted from here. another example for chmemistry.

    Simply include it in your .tex file with command \bibliography{myreferences} \bibliographystyle{biolett} where ‘myreferences’ is actually the file ‘myreferences.bib’, which should be your bibliographic databank in BibTeX format, of course!

11. [ ] resume template https://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/
12. [ ] letter biolerplate http://mrzool.cc/writing/typesetting-automation/
13. [ ] Latex Table Generator