TeX Live: A decent selection of the TeX Live packages

 The TeX Live software distribution offers a complete TeX system.
 It encompasses programs for typesetting, previewing and printing
 of TeX documents in many different languages, and a large collection
 of TeX macros and font libraries.
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 This metapackage provides a decent selection of the TeX Live packages
 which should suffice for the most common tasks.
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 The distribution also includes extensive general documentation about
 TeX, as well as the documentation accompanying the included software
 packages.