TeX Live 2016 pre-test binary distributions

Original version: Sun Apr 17 08:14:03 2016
Last update: Mon Jun 27 17:53:59 2016

This directory contains TeX Live 2016 binary distribution files created using a prerelease of the TeX Live 2016 distribution, expected to be available on DVD and the Internet in mid-summer 2016.

Those binary distributions are now mirrored at http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/texlive/texlive-bin/ (Slovenia) and http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/tex/local/texlive-bin/ (Czech Republic). For the latter, you can also replace http: by ftp: or rsync:.

Time stamps of the *.tar.xz files are set to that of the TeX executable contained in each, to make it easy to tell how recent each distribution is. If you are viewing this page in a Web browser, select the Name or Last modified links over the file listings above to change the sort order.

Unpack a particular distribution at your site like this:

    ### In these examples, BINDISTNAME would be x86_64-freebsd-11
    ### if you are on a 64-bit FreeBSD 11 operating system running on
    ### an AMD/Intel x86-64 CPU, or on a virtual machine simulating
    ### such a system.  Choose a suitable value for your own machine.

    cd /path/to/your/texlive/2016/bin

    tar xf /path/to/your/download/BINDISTNAME.tar.xz        
    ### OR, if you lack GNU tar:
    unxz < /path/to/your/download/BINDISTNAME.tar.xz | tar xf -
    
    ### ash, bash, dash, mksh, sh, and zsh login shells
    PATH=/path/to/your/texlive/2016/bin/BINDISTNAME:$PATH
    export PATH 

    ### csh and tcsh login shells:
    set path = ( /path/to/your/texlive/2016/bin/BINDISTNAME $path )
    
    ### Do a quick check of the new TeX:
    cd /tmp 
    echo 'This is a test of \TeX{} Live 2016.\bye' > tl2016.tex
    tex tl2016