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I'm using a headless Debian computer to work on LateX. If I try sudo apt-get install texlive-full I see a number of graphical programs that I don't need. I'd like to install all of texlive but without any of the graphical tools.

Is this possible?

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    A quick look over the package listing I see (Ubuntu 12.10TLTS) for sudo apt-get install texlive-full doesn't suggest any GUI packages I can spot. Could you specify your Debian version and which packages it's asking to add that you are not happy about? That said, this is borderline for us as one might argue this is a Debian issue (most 'TeX regulars' would do a vanilla install and ignore the Debian packaged version). – Joseph Wright Jan 09 '16 at 19:05
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    The TUG texlive installer also have a curses based install interface. That's what I usually use on my desktop – daleif Jan 09 '16 at 21:02
  • @daleif: That would be here: http://tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html ? – SabreWolfy Mar 06 '16 at 08:48
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    @SabreWolfy yes, download the non-windows installer, and just run install-tl as is, no -gui option. It is fairly simple to use – daleif Mar 06 '16 at 11:39

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I do not install the official TL package from Ubuntu. I used:

wget https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu/raw/master/install-tl-ubuntu && chmod +x ./install-tl-ubuntu
sudo ./install-tl-ubuntu

Then you can later install a gui or not.

  • It is buying later grief to install non-official packages. They break with updates, you have to track updates yourself, integration to the system is a lot of work. – vonbrand Jan 10 '16 at 00:22
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    It is not a pckage! –  Jan 10 '16 at 07:59
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You should be able to use your command line interface package management tools, e.g. apt-get for Debian. No GUI tools are part of (core) LaTeX.

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  • I realize things may have changed in the past 7 years :) but when I run apt-get install texlive-base on an ubuntu:jammy Docker container, I see it install these suspiciously GUI-sounding packages: x11-common, x11-utils, x11-server-utils, libgtk-3-0, libgtk-3-bin, libgtk-3-common – Daniel Schilling Mar 20 '23 at 22:26