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How do I install Tex in a different directory than the default?

Since I don't have sudo or root access, I want to install Tex live elsewhere, but install-tl

don't have any option to do so. Is there any other workaround?

Default path: /usr/local/texlive/2014

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install-tl

looks for some environment variables on execution. TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX

has the default /usr/local/texlive

and TEXLIVE_INSTALL_TEXDIR

/usr/local/texlive/2014

.

Try changing this variable for the directory you want to set, for example:

TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/your_user/texlive
TEXLIVE_INSTALL_TEXDIR=/home/your_user/texlive/2014


I've never tried this, but it might work.

You can read this and this for more information.

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