Acquiring TeX Live – TeX Users Group

TeX Live availability

TeX Live is available for download now.

You can acquire TeX Live in many ways. If you have a reasonable
Internet connection, we recommend the first:

Future releases

The last general update of packages and programs for the DVD was made
around 1 March 2026. However, we continuously
update packages in TL as they are released to CTAN; Post-installation updates are done with the
tlmgr program. tlmgr also provides many other
TeX installation options and features, explained in the tlmgr documentation.

Although it is possible to update continuously, it is not
necessary or particularly recommended. The set of packages and programs
that were included in the official release will most likely suffice
unless you know that you specifically need updates made since then. That
set is also the only one which gets tested as a coherent release. On the
other hand, if you like to get updates as they happen, please
report problems you find to the package authors.

Past releases

Older releases of TeX Live are available under
systems/texlive/ in the historic
archive; both the initial release each year (that’s on the DVD
release), and the frozen state at the end of the cycle in
tlnet-final/ subdirectory. You might find one useful if you
need a release of particular vintage. The installation archives are in
the same places.

There’s no problem with having multiple versions of TL installed (in
different directories); in fact, the default directory structure is
arranged to facilitate this. After installation, just set your PATH
accordingly.

If you have an older release installed, and want to update or install
a given package, this can be done using one of the above directories as
the repository. For example, to get a package as it was at the end of
the 2022 cycle:

tlmgr option repository https://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/texlive/2022/tlnet-final
tlmgr update ...

The historic repository has several mirrors
(more mirrors are welcome), so please choose the best one for you
instead of just copying the above utah.edu url.

If you want to update from tlnet as of a specific day, and not the
end of a release, you can use tlnet-archive.

There are no updates to TeX Live YYYY after YYYY+1 is released.

Getting GnuPG (GPG) on Windows or Mac

If you are on Windows or Mac, and don’t already have GnuPG (a.k.a. GPG) installed:
after the installation is done, you might wish to run

tlmgr --repository http://www.texlive.info/tlgpg/ install tlgpg # windows/mac

This will enable checking that further updates come from the
authentic source. On other systems, you’ll need to install GPG through
your operating system’s package manager, outside of TeX Live. That can
be done at any time.

Getting TeX via your distro

This page is about acquiring the “original” TeX
Live—the version of TeX released by the TeX user groups. If you
want to get TeX as it is packaged by the myriad operating system
distros, see the information available from the particular distro you
want. Some distro links. Any updates will then
also have to be made through your distro.

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