TeX Live Installer

# TeX Live Installer


TeX Live is intended to be a straightforward way to get up and running with the TeX document production system. It provides a comprehensive TeX system with binaries for most flavors of Unix, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and also Windows. It includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts that are free software, including support for many languages around the world.

This _Chocolatey Package_ makes the process of installing TeX Live on CI/CD or No GUI computers but not limited to users to install on their Personal Computers.

**You would need to specify a [larger timeout](https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/configuration#timeouts) depending on your install**.

## Package Specific

#### Package Parameters

The following package parameters can be set:

- `/collections:` - The TeX Live Collection to install. Default to None. Data type is comma separated string. Allowed values are listed [here](#allowed-values-collections).

- `/scheme:` - The scheme(type) you need to install. Defaults to scheme-basic. Should be a string. Allowed values are listed [here](#allowed-values-schemes).

- `/InstallationPath:` - Where to install the binaries to - defaults to "`$env:SystemDrive\texlive\ `"

- `/extraPackages:` - Extra LaTeX Packages that need to be installed using tlmgr. If multiple packages it needs comma separated.

- `/InstallerParameters:` - Additional parameters that are to be passed to the installer (`install-tl`).

To pass parameters, use `--params "''"` (e.g. `choco install texlive [other options] --params="'/collections:games /scheme:basic'"`).

To have choco remember parameters on upgrade, be sure to set `choco feature enable -n=useRememberedArgumentsForUpgrades`.

### Allowed Values Collections

- basic

- bibtexextra

- binextra

- context