Install LaTeX on a Synology NAS

<infobox type=“warning” width=“80%”>Installing this way has worked for me the first time, though, after a fresh reinstall of my synology NAS, it seems that pdflatex currently fails with a segfault.

It might simply be some benine dependency missing that I could fix with ipkg… Need to work on this

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As explained in the sources, LaTex (texlive distribution) is built for lots of targets, and this includes arm7 which is used on most Synology NAS.

I followed this document to install latex on my NAS :

• Download and extract the installer :

wget http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz
tar xfv ./install-tl-* 
# The installer comes with a suffixed date, eg.: install-tl-20151122

• run the isntaller :

cd ./install-tl-* 
./install-tl

Remember to use the interactive installer to change the installation directories to your /opt/ directory

It might spit out some errors, it did in my case, but I still ended up with a working copy of the pdflatex binary, and that's all I need for now.

Sources : http://tug.org/texlive/custom-bin.html and http://www.churchtool.org/fileadmin/user_upload/docs/latex_in_userspace.pdf