Install texlive 2018 ubuntu8/28/2023 ![]() So what I did was: sudo mkdir /usr/local/texlive sudo chmod a+w /usr/local/texlive But I didn’t want to make that directory writeable to by anything and everything: it belongs to root, after all, for a reason. I thought that if the installer had write access to it, the problem would be solved. ![]() What I did instead was note that it was directory /usr/local/texlive/2018/ that was the problem: the installer didn’t have write access to /usr/local/. The former is irrelevant the second goes against the advice of the installation instructions, which recommend installing it as a normal user, except perhaps on MacOSX as I’m installing it on Ubuntu, not Mac, I don’t want to use sudo. There are currently two solutions : one misunderstands the installation used by the original poster the other suggests using sudo to perform the installation. I had a permission error when installing TeX Live on Ubuntu using the TeX Live quick install instructions. ![]()
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