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I've installed LaTeX via

sudo yum install tetex-latex tetex-doc tetex-fonts

and

sudo yum install texlive tex-live-latex

(of course removing one before trying the other.

The installations work giving my LaTeX on my server but I don't seem to have tlmgr.

I need to install the tikz package manually on the server and can't seem to find any information on how exactly this is done without the use of tlmgr.

Any CentOS users that know the proper way to install LaTeX on my server and get the tikz package installed manually?

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  • Not on CentOS, but I doubt yum gives you tlmgr. If you want it, it is better to install 'vanilla' TeX Live from CTAN (many questions here about that). Otherwise, does the command kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFHOME return anything? If so, that's the system-level home, while TEXMFLOCAL and TEXMFHOME respectively reveal the local and personal homes. You can install into any of these directories. (Questions here should address relative benefits of each.). Note files ending .tds.zip are the easiest to install manually. Finally, tetex is almost certainly too old, even on CentOS.
    – jon
    Commented Jan 26, 2016 at 5:52

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Most distributions' TeX Live packages do not ship tlmgr for good reason, as it would interfere with the package managing tools. You should use the distribution tools to install, update, and manage TeX Live packages.

Some distributions do ship tlmgr and let it work in specific mode. Debian for example ships tlmgr but sets it automatically to user mode, which means that one can manage one's TEXMFHOME (or any other directory) with it. Afair there are other distributions that download the TeX Live package and repackage it into an rpm and then install it, but I think that CentOS is not doing this.

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