loss of pdflatex

[Dan Ports]

To clarify some more, texlive-bin builds all the binaries for a texlive
installation, but most will not be usable without their support files.

texlive-latex installs the style files for LaTeX, precompiles some of
them, and symlinks latex -> tex and pdflatex -> pdftex. When invoked
via that name it loads the precompiled format file containing the LaTeX
macros.

texlive-common contains configuration files and the scripts that are
needed to keep them up to date as other texlive ports are installed.

Dan

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