[oi-dev] TeX Live doc update

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 12.01.22 um 19:08 schrieb stes at PANDORA.BE:
> I'm submitting a documentation update Pull Request (PR) for TeX Live.
>
> http://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/community/texlive/
>
> The change is:
>
> -There are various options, if you have Perl Tk installed, you can also run the GUI :
> +If you wish to use the TeX Live GUI, install the OpenIndiana Perl Tk package (the tk-perl IPS package is available on OpenIndiana release 2022 or higher) :

We don't have releases because we are following a so called rolling
release model. You don't need to install from a newer medium but just
run an ordinary "pkg update" and reboot into the newer boot environment
to get the latest. After a reboot you can install newer packages like
tk-perl.


> +
> +```none
> +        # pkg install -v tk-perl
> +```
> +
> +Then run the TeX Live installer GUI as follows :
>
>   ```none
>           # install-tl --gui
>
> The TeX Live distribution is a very complete distribution of the TeX professional typesetting software.
>
> TeX is not only used for math, it is popular in advanced, programmable, typesetting, so it's great that TeX Live runs on OpenIndiana;  I'm sure that there's many advanced TeX programmers out there that like the TeX Live distribution.
>
> The "pkg install -v tk-perl" step is a simple and useful step to install the necessary support for the TeX Live GUI.
>
> Hopefully when TeX Live 2022 is released (which probably is about to happen in the following weeks) it'll work fine as well.
>
> Regards,
> David Stes
>
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