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After I tried everything to get my latex project use biblatex-philosophy I really dont know what to do any more so my question would be how is the best way to install latex on a fresh Linux Mint system to get everything to work. I want to use biblatex-philosophy but for that dependencies did not resolve when I tried to install it via synaptic (somehow different paths) /vanilla-install (everything broke and fonts were corrupted so had to reinstall system) / aptget (backport ppas were down as they are needed to get right versions for biber and biblatex working together with texlive)

Can anyone help me here?

Do I have to delete something on the fresh installation before I begin?

NoClueLu
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    To get a proper up-to-date installation of TeXLive and working biblatex and Biber, vanilla TeXLive is the way to go. Did you follow the instructions in that link, and what did not work for you? – moewe Oct 15 '13 at 13:45
  • The step where one should edit "gksudo gedit etc/environment" it was already set. After reboot I tried "which tex" which didn't show anything. I am afraid that once I don't get the step complete my system is full of wrong tex stuff again.. – NoClueLu Oct 15 '13 at 13:54
  • If you gksudo gedit etc/environment you will see the PATH is already set, you just add to it. – moewe Oct 15 '13 at 13:57
  • No I mean it was already set to "PATH="/opt/texbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games"" – NoClueLu Oct 15 '13 at 14:03
  • So just skip that step? Also do I have to purge something before doing all those steps again from scratch? – NoClueLu Oct 15 '13 at 14:08
  • You should probably delete sudo rm -rf /usr/local/texlive/. – moewe Oct 15 '13 at 14:10
  • If you set the PATHs correctly, you don't need to delete/uninstall anything, but you certainly can (use apt: sudo apt-get purge texlive*). Check your PATH settings though. – jon Oct 15 '13 at 14:10
  • E.g., I have for TeXLive 2013 on a 64-bit machine: PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/man:$MANPATH INFOPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/info:$INFOPATH. I put this in ~/.profile. – jon Oct 15 '13 at 14:13
  • ok I ran the installation until I should enter "which tex" into the terminal. But nothing will show up even after reboot. I did the "gksudo gedit etc/environment" path setting and I also have a folder /opt/textbin where all the stuff is now located. What can I do? Is the advice of @jon needed up to this point of the installation? – NoClueLu Oct 15 '13 at 21:38
  • Confirm that you purged all previous install attempts before you tried to do this last install. It is hard to keep track of whether you have installed from Apt and from TUG and whether you have uninstalled any of these failed attempts. – jon Oct 16 '13 at 01:39
  • sudo rm -rf /usr/local/texlive sudo apt-get purge texlive* wget http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz tar -xzf install-tl-unx.tar.gz cd install-tl-.. sudo ./install-tl sudo ln -s /usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/* /opt/texbin gksudo gedit /etc/environment PATH="/opt/texbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games" which tex – NoClueLu Oct 16 '13 at 06:35
  • also there doesn't seem to be a tlmgr in /opt/textbin/ among all the other folders and programs – NoClueLu Oct 16 '13 at 07:59

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