# TeX Live 2025 - installer packages
This directory contains a network-based installer and packages for TeX
Live <
https://tug.org/texlive/>. It is mirrored via CTAN <
https://ctan.org/>.
The TeX Live web pages <
https://tug.org/texlive/> have information on:
- ways to acquire the distribution <
https://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html>,
- quick installation <
https://tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html>,
- documentation <
https://tug.org/texlive/doc.html>,
- reporting bugs and checking known issues <
https://tug.org/texlive/bugs.html>,
and more.
If you have a complete copy of this directory (for example, via
rsync), including the archive/ and tlpkg/ subdirectories, you can run
the install-tl (install-tl-windows.bat for Windows) script present here.
The update-tlmgr-latest.sh and .exe archives here are one way to
update tlmgr itself, or to recover from tlmgr
being completely broken <
https://tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html#disaster>.
It is not recommended, but as an alternative to this network install,
you can use the giant ISO image of the distribution
<
http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/Images/>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.