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Amc with TinyTeX

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TinyTeX is a great minimal tex distribution (doc, fonts, and myriad of packages are not installed by default).






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The only drawback is that you need to install needed package (with a simple command like tlmgr install <package-name>)






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* Launch the command to install TinyTeX. (see more on : https://yihui.org/tinytex/#installation)






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wget -qO- "https://yihui.org/tinytex/install-bin-unix.sh" | sh






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* binary files are stored in ~/bin. You need to put this directory in the path var. In many case It could be done by this command : 






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echo "export PATH=/home/${USER}/bin/:$PATH" >> ~/.xsessionrc






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and source xsessionrc file (or reboot your system).






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source ~/.xsessionrc






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* Let your package system think all dependencies for auto-multiple-choice package are installed :






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sudo apt install equivs --no-install-recommends






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mkdir -p /tmp/tl-equivs && cd /tmp/tl-equivs






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equivs-control texlive-local






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wget -O texlive-local http://www.tug.org/texlive/files/debian-equivs-2021-ex.txt # if problems change year date according to stable TeX distrib






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equivs-build texlive-local






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sudo dpkg -i texlive-local_2020-1_all.deb






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sudo apt install -f






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* Install AMC needed tex package (and others if needed)






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tlmgr install xltxtra realscripts bophook fancybox csvsimple environ etex-pkg fancyhdr pgf






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sudo ~/bin/mktexlsr






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* Then install your amc distrib package






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sudo apt install auto-multiple-choice






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* Create a symlink of automultiplechoice.sty, to make it available for your TinyTeX distribution :






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sudo ln -s /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/AMC/automultiplechoice.sty /home/pedro/.TinyTeX/texmf-local/tex/latex/local/automultiplechoice.sty






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Now your system is ready. In case of missing package error. You can install it with tlmgr install <package-name> (see : https://yihui.org/tinytex/#maintenance)