This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.
Update: I've disabled comments as of 2025-01-26 to avoid everyone having notifications for something a year on if someone wants to suggest a correction. Folks are free to email to suggest corrections still, of course.
On an Debian/Ubuntu-based system, to install texlive-full without docs and language packs, simply do this:
sudo apt install `sudo apt --assume-no install texlive-full | \
awk '/The following additional packages will be installed/{f=1;next} /Suggested packages/{f=0} f' | \
tr ' ' '\n' | grep -vP 'doc$' | grep -vP 'texlive-lang' | grep -vP 'latex-cjk' | tr '\n' ' '`After this, if you wish to install the language packs, selectively install them. E.g.:
On an Debian/Ubuntu-based system, to install texlive-full without docs and language packs, simply do this:
sudo apt install `sudo apt --assume-no install texlive-full | \
awk '/The following additional packages will be installed/{f=1;next} /Suggested packages/{f=0} f' | \
tr ' ' '\n' | grep -vP 'doc$' | grep -vP 'texlive-lang' | grep -vP 'latex-cjk' | tr '\n' ' '`After this, if you wish to install the language packs, selectively install them. E.g.: