Fred <fred@???> asks on Fri, 11 Mar 2022 08:02:23 -0700

>> ...
>> I am trying to compile a program which expects that Latex is installed.
>> There are a number of Latex related packages in the repository but it is
>> not apparent which is a base package. What package(s) should I install
>> for more or less general usage?
>> ...

Try
    # apt-get install texlive-base texlive-latex-base

There are 60+ packages that match 'texlive-*'; add others as needed.

If you have sufficient disk space, you could instead run

    # apt-get install texlive-full

That gets them all.

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For a progress report on this year's TeX Live builds, see my site at

    http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive-utah/

The first pretest release came out about a week ago, and I can now
install new packages from the pretest tree mirror at Utah in our TeX
Live 2022 tree.

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