我正在尝试安装更精简的 texlive 版本。我的主要要求是将具有 bibtex 书目支持的标准文章 tex 文件转换为 pdf。我使用以下软件包：graphicx、geometry、cite 和 fontenc。
在所有名称中带有“texlive”的 Debian Stable 软件包中，我考虑安装以下内容：
texlive-base - TeX Live: Essential programs and files
texlive-fonts-recommended - TeX Live: Recommended fonts
texlive-generic-recommended - TeX Live: Generic recommended packages
texlive-latex-base - TeX Live: LaTeX fundamental packages
texlive-latex-recommended - TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packages
texlive-binaries - Binaries for TeX Live
texlive-plain-extra - TeX Live: Plain TeX packages
并省略以下内容：
texlive - TeX Live: A decent selection of the TeX Live packages
texlive-fonts-recommended-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-full - TeX Live: metapackage pulling in all components of TeX Live
texlive-latex-base-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-latex-base
texlive-latex-recommended-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-latex-recommended
texlive-luatex - TeX Live: LuaTeX packages
texlive-metapost - TeX Live: MetaPost and Metafont packages
texlive-metapost-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-metapost
texlive-omega - TeX Live: Omega packages
texlive-pictures - TeX Live: Graphics, pictures, diagrams
texlive-pictures-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-pictures
texlive-xetex - TeX Live: XeTeX and packages
etoolbox - TeX Live: transitional dummy package <<<<<<<<<<< ch;
texlive-bibtex-extra - TeX Live: BibTeX additional styles
texlive-extra-utils - TeX Live: TeX auxiliary programs
texlive-font-utils - TeX Live: Graphics and font utilities
texlive-fonts-extra - TeX Live: Additional fonts
texlive-fonts-extra-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-fonts-extra
texlive-formats-extra - TeX Live: Additional formats
texlive-games - TeX Live: Games typesetting
texlive-generic-extra - TeX Live: Generic additional packages
texlive-htmlxml - TeX Live: HTML/SGML/XML support
texlive-humanities - TeX Live: Humanities packages
texlive-humanities-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-humanities
texlive-latex-extra - TeX Live: LaTeX additional packages
texlive-latex-extra-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-latex-extra
texlive-music - TeX Live: Music packages
texlive-pstricks - TeX Live: PSTricks
texlive-pstricks-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-pstricks
texlive-publishers - TeX Live: Publisher styles, theses, etc.
texlive-publishers-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-publishers
texlive-science - TeX Live: Mathematics and science packages
texlive-science-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-science
texlive-lang-african - TeX Live: African scripts
texlive-lang-all - TeX Live: metapackage depending on all TeX Live language packages
texlive-lang-arabic - TeX Live: Arabic
这会起作用吗？或者，还有其他方法可以将标准 tex 文件转换为 pdf 吗？
感谢您的帮助。
答案1
如果您只需要提到的软件包，那么您的选择就很好，甚至可以通过删除 -plain- 软件包来精简，因为它们提供了对纯 TeX 格式的支持。
如果你知道所需文件列表，你可以查看http://packages.debian.org/在页面的底部，有一个方法可以搜索包的内容。