eitl – Easy in­stall of Texlive

The script al­lows the easy in­stall of a cur­rent TeXLive ver­sion over the net. It is tested with the cur­rent Linux ver­sions of OpenSUSE and Ubuntu. The script:
– looks for a fast server – down­loads the in­stall script – deletes an ex­ist­ing TeXLive ver­sion from Ubuntu (deb) or openSUSE (rpm) – ex­tracts and runs the in­stall script – in­stalls a com­plete up-to-date TeXLive from tug.org – in­stalls the non free fonts from tug.org which are not part of TeXLive, like ar­ial, Luxi mono, etc. – in­stalls the GUIs TeXmaker and TeXworks – cre­ates files zzz-texlive.sh/csh for /etc/pro­file.d/ If no di­rec­tory is spec­i­fied, TeXLive will be in­stalled in the home di­rec­tory ~/texlive. For an­other di­rec­tory, run the script with the di­rec­tory name; e.g.: ./eitl.sh /usr/lo­cal/texlive for some ac­tions the script needs to be root. In such cases it asks for the root pass­word.