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 5 Installing
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 This section discusses the results of 'make install' in the source tree.
 
    The main consideration is that 'make install' is not enough to make a
 usable TeX installation.  Beyond the compiled binaries, (thousands of)
 support files are needed; just as a first example, 'plain.tex' is not in
 the source tree.
 
    These support files are maintained completely independently and are
 not present in the TL source tree.  The best basis for dealing with them
 is the TeX Live (plain text) database in 'Master/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb',
 and/or the TeX Live installer, 'install-tl'.  More information is under
 'Master/tlpkg' and at <https://tug.org/texlive/distro.html>.
 

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· Installation directories    The prefix, 'bindir', etc., directories.
· Linked scripts              Scripts not maintained in the sources.
· Distro builds               Configuring and building for OS distributions.
 

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