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[Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/06/13 15:26, Sylvie Gallet wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> > With aid of may assistant TeX Live has been installed as per
> > http://ubuntu-manual.org/getinvolved/authors#install-texlive and
> > everything appears to be working. The following was a bit worrying
> > though:-
> >
> > "(Note that this hasn’t been tested yet and it’s pure guesswork on
> > Kevin’s part! Let us know if it does or doesn’t work for you.)"
> >
> > Especially given the time it takes to install. If nobody has had any
> > problems, can that be removed or reworded. Also, I think there should be
> > a warning about the length of time it takes. One hour 45 mins in our case. I
> > know the installer gives a remarkably accurate indication of the time
> > required, but anybody who is just used to installing the more usual
> > packages may be taken by surprise. I know we were. Thankfully we had set
> > a side enough time.
>
>    It also eats a HUGE amount of disk space in / (several gigabytes)...
Never noticed quite how big it is, around 2.5 GiB on this machine. I 
don't have a separate / partition so it's not really a problem, but it 
may be a good idea to put a warning in the instructions. If it had been 
installed on my Lubuntu machine the disk would have been full!

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Steve