Instal a full latex texlive on Ubuntu Xenial without any of the docs

install-texlive-without-docs.py

import subprocess

get_line_by_line_texlive_dependencies = subprocess.run(
    [
        "apt-cache",
        "depends",
        "texlive-full"
    ],
    universal_newlines=True,
    stdout=subprocess.PIPE
)

dependency_pattern = "Depends: "

def extract_dependency(dependency_text, pattern):
    dependency = dependency_text.strip().replace(pattern, "")
    return(dependency)

dependencies = [
    extract_dependency(line, dependency_pattern)
        for line in get_line_by_line_texlive_dependencies.stdout.splitlines()
            if line.strip().startswith(dependency_pattern) and not line.strip().endswith("-doc")]


arguments = [
    "apt-get",
    "install",
    "--assume-yes",
    "--no-install-recommends"
]

arguments.extend(dependencies)

# execute apt-get install with all the package names
subprocess.run(arguments)

Thank you so much! This is excellent! 👍

Very helpful! Thanks!

Thank you so much!

Nice, but the same thing can be done as a shell one-liner:

apt-cache depends texlive-full | sed -n 's/^ *Depends..\(.*\)$/\1/p' | grep -v 'doc$' | sudo xargs apt-get install --no-install-recommends --assume-yes