====== Debian's texlive ======

===== versions =====

  * 2018 buster
  * 2020 bullseye
  * 2022 bookworm
  * 2023 trixie


===== packages =====

Recommended setup:

  * texlive
  * texlive-latex-extra
  * texlive-lang-english
  * texlive-lang-german
  * texlive-lang-polish

==== main packages ====

  * **texlive** - TeX Live: A decent selection of the TeX Live packages
  * texlive-base - TeX Live: Essential programs and files
  * texlive-fonts-recommended - TeX Live: Recommended fonts
  * texlive-fonts-recommended-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-fonts-recommended
  * **texlive-full** - TeX Live: metapackage pulling in all components of TeX Live
  * texlive-latex-base - TeX Live: LaTeX fundamental packages
  * texlive-latex-base-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-latex-base
  * texlive-latex-recommended - TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packages
  * texlive-latex-recommended-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-latex-recommended
  * texlive-luatex - TeX Live: LuaTeX packages
  * texlive-metapost - TeX Live: MetaPost and Metafont packages
  * texlive-metapost-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-metapost
  * texlive-pictures - TeX Live: Graphics, pictures, diagrams
  * texlive-pictures-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-pictures
  * texlive-xetex - TeX Live: XeTeX and packages
  * **texlive-binaries** - Binaries for TeX Live
  * texlive-bibtex-extra - TeX Live: BibTeX additional styles
  * texlive-extra-utils - TeX Live: TeX auxiliary programs
  * texlive-font-utils - TeX Live: Graphics and font utilities
  * texlive-fonts-extra - TeX Live: Additional fonts
  * texlive-fonts-extra-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-fonts-extra
  * texlive-fonts-extra-links - TeX Live: Setup of fonts for TeX Live and search via kpathsea
  * texlive-formats-extra - TeX Live: Additional formats
  * texlive-games - TeX Live: Games typesetting
  * texlive-humanities - TeX Live: Humanities packages
  * texlive-humanities-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-humanities
  * texlive-latex-extra - TeX Live: LaTeX additional packages
  * texlive-latex-extra-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-latex-extra
  * texlive-music - TeX Live: Music packages
  * texlive-plain-generic - TeX Live: Plain (La)TeX packages
  * texlive-pstricks - TeX Live: PSTricks
  * texlive-pstricks-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-pstricks
  * texlive-publishers - TeX Live: Publisher styles, theses, etc.
  * texlive-publishers-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-publishers
  * texlive-science - TeX Live: Mathematics, natural sciences, computer science packages
  * texlive-science-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-science

==== lang packages ====

  * **texlive-lang-all** - TeX Live: metapackage depending on all TeX Live language packages
  * texlive-lang-arabic - TeX Live: Arabic
  * texlive-lang-chinese - TeX Live: Chinese
  * texlive-lang-cjk - TeX Live: Chinese/Japanese/Korean (base)
  * texlive-lang-cyrillic - TeX Live: Cyrillic
  * texlive-lang-czechslovak - TeX Live: Czech/Slovak
  * texlive-lang-english - TeX Live: US and UK English
  * texlive-lang-european - TeX Live: Other European languages
  * texlive-lang-french - TeX Live: French
  * texlive-lang-german - TeX Live: German
  * texlive-lang-greek - TeX Live: Greek
  * texlive-lang-italian - TeX Live: Italian
  * texlive-lang-japanese - TeX Live: Japanese
  * texlive-lang-korean - TeX Live: Korean
  * texlive-lang-other - TeX Live: Other languages
  * texlive-lang-polish - TeX Live: Polish
  * texlive-lang-portuguese - TeX Live: Portuguese
  * texlive-lang-spanish - TeX Live: Spanish


===== most usefull packages =====

  * ''texlive-base'' +70MB
  * ''texlive'' metapackage: (+175MB)
    * ''texlive-latex-recommended''
    * ''texlive-fonts-recommended''
    * ''texlive-latex-base''
    * ''texlive-base''
  * ''texlive'' + ''texlive-latex-extra'' + ''texlive-lang-english'' + ''texlive-lang-german'' + ''texlive-lang-polish''
    * + 440MB
  * ''texlive-full'' metapackage: +8GB (where DOC is ~3GB)