Please be warned that these images are huge (e.g. If you want to download the latest TeX Live release, point your browser to the nearest CTAN mirror and go to the directory systems/texlive/Images/. Installation from the TeX Live DVD ISO images Obtaining the Necessary Files
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This page will explain how to install TeX Live from the DVD. If you want to use the installation procedure provided by your distribution, refer to its documentation and skip the next section. Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Gentoo, Fedora, Arch the same may be true for other distributions) you may find out that your Linux distribution already has TeX Live in it's repoistory many distributions already switchted to TeX Live from teTeX (e.g.you can use netinstall method if you aren't doing full installation, it can save quite a bit of bandwidth.details) if you're a member of such a group, you may have received a copy as part of your membership benefits you can obtain DVDs that contain TeX Live from a TeX user group (e.g.There is a number of ways to install TeX Live on your computer: The release cycle is about once a year the 2009 version was released in November 2009 (before that, it also had a release in 2008, 2007, 2005 and so on). It comes with many, many additional packages, and for the time being, it is the only TeX distribution for all major OS (Windows, linux, OS X) that has regular updates. TeX Live is a distribution that allows you to install TeX and friends on most operating systems. TeX Live 2010 has been released, see this page for details.
This page describes TeX Live 2009 setup at the moment.