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