


You may want to change the directory options.

Select the minimal scheme (plain only).Change the umask permissions to 022 (user read/write/execute, group/others read/execute only) to make sure other users will have read-only access to the installed distribution.Open a terminal in the extracted folder and log in as root.Download the installer at and extract it to a temporary folder.We will give you general guidelines to install a minimal TeX distribution ( i.e., only for plain TeX).
