[feature request] make ubuntu-manual portable

[Mehmet Atif Ergun]

Description:
The whole removing and installing texlive was extremely well documented and the install-pkgs.sh script was a gift from the gods what is to be downloaded just to replace one's existing installation is quite large. Existing ~/texmf configurations make things more complicated too. Could you consider making the document more portable?

More info:

I use bundledoc and snapshot (and arlatex, I think??) in some of my files to achieve this. The process is to add this to the beginning of the preample of the master file:

    \RequirePackage{snapshot}

which creates a .dep file. Then one compiles the document and runs the script

    bundledoc --texfile=ubuntu-manual.tex --config=tetex.cfg ubuntu-manual.dep

You do this only when you change the packages used in the document (basically, once) and it provides you with a zipped archive of everything (including the exact version of all the packages being used at the time!).

Attached is a patch that adds snapshot to the tex file along with the .dep it produces.

I'll also try to attach the zipped file here for the record (or in case someone doesn't want to do the reinstall or needs the packages). [It should have included the cc-icons but did not; I don't know why.]

[Mehmet Atif Ergun (mehmetaergun)]

trying to attach the zipped file.

[Kevin Godby (godbyk)]

The problem is that we've encountered bugs in TeX packages often enough that it's worth keeping up to date with them. This becomes more apparent as more translations are completed.

I *think* the TeX Live packages in Ubuntu are now good enough to build the manual, but I have to confess I haven't tried them in quite some time. If they do work well, though, we can update the install-pkgs.sh script to use those instead of requiring that upstream TeX Live be installed.

Since a lot of TeX packages are bundled together in each Ubuntu TeX Live package, we'll still end up installing more than we need, but it's less overall than the full upstream TeX Live installation.