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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 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 <http://tug.org/texlive/distro.html>.

Installation directories

The prefix, 'bindir', etc., directories.

Linked scripts

Scripts not maintained in the sources.

Distro builds

Configuring and building for OS distributions.