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. . This metapackage provides a decent selection of the TeX Live packages which should suffice for the most common tasks. . The distribution also includes extensive general documentation about TeX, as well as the documentation accompanying the included software packages.

Fontconfig is a font configuration and customization library, which does not depend on the X Window System. It is designed to locate fonts within the system and select them according to requirements specified by applications.

Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on Xpdf PDF viewer.

The FreeType project is a team of volunteers who develop free, portable and high-quality software solutions for digital typography. They specifically target embedded systems and focus on providing small, efficient and ubiquitous products.

These packages are either mandated by the core LaTeX team, or very widely used and strongly recommended in practice.

This package includes the following CTAN packages: