Acquiring TeX Live as an ISO image – TeX Users Group

Acquiring TeX Live as an ISO image

For normal use we recommend installing TeX Live over the Internet
or from DVD, but if you want to burn your
own DVD, you can get our huge ISO image. It is around 4GB (md5, sha512 checksums; sha512 signature, signing key). You can:

If you want to mount the image to make the contents available for
installation or browsing, a typical invocation on Unix is:

mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop,noauto /your/texlive.iso /mnt

On Windows versions 8 and later, you can open an ISO by
double-clicking it in Explorer. On Windows 7, you’ll need a
third-party tool such
as WinCDEmu.
You’ll find the Windows installer file
‘install-tl-windows.bat’ in the root of the virtual DVD.

After mounting the image, to install TeX Live, follow the installation instructions or read the
documentation.

The ISO image is not updated after release, so that it can serve as a
stable marker in TeX development and to correspond to the DVD sent to TeX user group members.

Sources: the ISO includes the complete sources in the
source/ subdirectory, corresponding to Master/source in the
repository.

Acquiring the ISO using the torrent network

The ISO image is also available as a torrent. (Thanks
much to Tim Stewart for doing this.)

Please, after downloading the full torrent, keep the torrent
client running for some time to seed the files so that the files get
better distributed.

Information about other ways to acquire TeX
Live is available separately.