Installing TexLive in MXlinux 19

[venik212]

I am trying MXlinux 19. Among several other issues, I discovered that I cannot install Texlive2020-- the terminal command: perl install-tl -gui fails to start the gui version of the installer. Perl is installed, but somehow the combination of perl and texlive fails.
Any suggestion will be appreciated.

[Jerry3904]

Maybe this: with a search I see that TL 2020 has just been moved to Debian Experimental (testing) a couple of days ago, so it won't show up in MX Linux by default since that is based on Debian Stable. So that command will only find texlive 18 and will quit?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

the terminal command: perl install-tl -gui fails to start the gui version of the installer

You need the graphical toolkit:

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sudo apt install tk

But note that the repositories contain a (slightly older) full version of TexLive, which may be preferable.

EDIT: I think MX should replace LibreOffice with TexLive, it's much better

[venik212]

Thank you-- installing tk did the trick. The texlive from the repositories does work OK, but installing it that way prevents me from using tlmgr, which I need for updates, etc.
As for replacing LibreOffice with TexLive-- I have installed TexLive several times on various machines and environments, and it was ALWAYS a nightmare. This last glitch (not knowing that tk was needed in MX Linux) is only a tiny example. If and when they finally have an installation path that humans can use easily, I agree-- obviously, Latex is far superior to the various Office packages. I now use Latex via Lyx-- highly recommended.