Debian's texlive

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

Recommended setup:

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

• 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

• 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

• 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)