AROS TeXlive material

Installation

Prerequisites

At the moment of this release - 20080228, the beta 2, TeXlive is not supported on AFFS - A Fucked File System on AROS. If someone wants to debug AFFS, AROS just crashes by issuing the command: mktextfm line10.
This release can run on a SFS partition. This is the setup I provided in the qemu image.

The real stuff

Copy the content of the binary archive to 'Extras:' (Work: should be ok too, but I didn't tested it). And execute the following commands:
  CLI> cd Extras/TeXlive
  CLI> execute S/Package-Startup
  CLI> echo Extras:TeXlive > EnvArc:SYS/Packages/TeXlive
  
In case you added some files to the texmf tree, you have to rebuild the files listing database for kpathsea to find the new files:
  CLI> mktexlsr
  
In case you have some problem with the previous command, just try to delete those files first:
  CLI> delete TeXlive:share/texmf/ls-R
  CLI> delete TeXlive:share/texmf-dist/ls-R
  

Memory usage

Specially on AROS 'hosted', it is important to give the system enough memory to install and run TeXlive. You should start AROS with at least 128Mb of RAM (add more if you are trying a debug version, I just use 256Mb).

Testing the installation:

Please, try the tests described on the official site: TUG TeXlive testing instructions

Current status

Tested and work with automatic fonts creation (and fmt files).
  CLI> latex sample2e.tex
  ...
  CLI> pdflatex sample2e.tex
  ...
  

Non working scripts

These scripts need a POSIX shell or Perl to run.
a2ping allcm allneeded ctxtools dvi2fax dvired e2pall epstopdf exatools fmtutil-sys fontinst getnonfreefonts giftopng kpsetool kpsewhere luatools makempy mkocp mkofm mpstools mptopdf mtxtools pdfcrop pdfthumb pdftools perltex pkfix ppower4 ps2frag ps4pdf pslatex pstopdf rlxtools rubibtex rumakeindex runtools simpdftex texconfig-dialog texconfig texconfig-sys texdoc texdoctk texexec texfont texlinks texmfstart textools texutil thumbpdf tmftools updmap updmap-sys vpe xmltools

Build instructions

In the AROS source tree: make contrib-texlive.

Downloads

AROS TeXlive 20080228 - bin-pc-i386 (stuff with a subset of texmf files)
AROS TeXlive 20080228 - qemu-i386-img (this one contains ShowDVI alpha preview)
AROS TeXlive 20080228 - sources
TeXlive master texmf-dist repository (the full stuff)

ChangeLog

20080228 - beta 2, bug fixes, known to not run on AFFS, added dvips
20080216 - first release, total crap, non working