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+To compile documents, do you need (on Debian Wheezy):
+ * texlive-latex-base
+ * texlive-latex-recommended
+ * texlive-lang-french
+ * texlive-lang-cyrillic
+ * texlive-lang-greek (optionnal but warnings without)