diff --git a/packages/poppler/build.sh b/packages/poppler/build.sh
index a885830d9..1b7eb27da 100644
--- a/packages/poppler/build.sh
+++ b/packages/poppler/build.sh
@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.47.0
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 # libcairo and littlecms is used by pdftocairo:
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="fontconfig, libcairo, libpng, libjpeg-turbo, libtiff, littlecms, openjpeg"
-TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--disable-poppler-glib"
+#texlive needs the xpdf headers
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--disable-poppler-glib  --enable-xpdf-headers"
diff --git a/packages/texlive/build.sh b/packages/texlive/build.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b8d25e296
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/texlive/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.tug.org/texlive/
+TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="TeX Live is a distribution of the TeX typesetting system."
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=20160523
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION:0:4}/texlive-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}b-source.tar.xz
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256="a8b32ca47f0a403661a09e202f4567a995beb718c18d8f81ca6d76daa1da21ed"
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libpng,libgd,freetype,poppler,libluajit,libicu"
+TERMUX_PKG_FOLDERNAME=texlive-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}-source
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="\
+AR=ar \
+RANLIB=ranlib \
+BUILDAR=ar \
+BUILDRANLIB=ranlib \
+--prefix=$TERMUX_PREFIX/local/texlive/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION:0:4} \
+--bindir=$TERMUX_PREFIX/local/texlive/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION:0:4}/bin/pkg \
+--libdir=$TERMUX_PREFIX/lib \
+--build=$TERMUX_BUILD_TUPLE \
+--disable-native-texlive-build \
+--without-x \
+--disable-multiplatform \
+--disable-dialog \
+--disable-psutils \
+--disable-t1utils \
+--disable-bibtexu \
+--disable-xz  \
+--without-texinfo \
+--without-xdvipdfmx \
+--without-texi2html \
+--with-system-icu \
+--with-system-poppler \
+--with-system-gd \
+--with-system-luajit \
+--with-system-xpdf \
+--enable-luatex \
+--enable-ttfdump=no \
+--enable-makeindexk=no --enable-makejvf=no --enable-mendexk=no --enable-musixtnt=no --enable-ps2pk=no \
+--enable-seetexk=no --enable-gregorio=no \
+--with-banner-add=/termux \
+     "
+
+termux_step_post_extract_package () {        
+ rm -r $TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR/utils/pmx
+}
+
+termux_step_post_make_install () {
+ cp $TERMUX_PKG_BUILDER_DIR/termux-install-tl $TERMUX_PREFIX/bin
+ chmod +x $TERMUX_PREFIX/bin/termux-install-tl
+ sed -E -i "s@/bin/sh@$PREFIX/bin/sh@" "$TERMUX_PREFIX/local/texlive/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION:0:4}/bin/pkg/tlmgr"
+}
+
+termux_step_create_debscripts () {
+ echo 'echo "retrieving texlive..."' > postinst
+ echo "termux-install-tl" >> postinst	
+ echo "exit 0" >> postinst	
+ chmod 0755 postinst
+}
diff --git a/packages/texlive/dvipdfm-x_fix_getpass.patch b/packages/texlive/dvipdfm-x_fix_getpass.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..de58c3887
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/texlive/dvipdfm-x_fix_getpass.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+--- src/texk/dvipdfm-x/pdfencrypt.h~	2016-01-06 11:13:28.000000000 +0100
++++ src/texk/dvipdfm-x/pdfencrypt.h	2016-12-31 11:13:43.734942973 +0100
+@@ -38,4 +38,19 @@
+                               unsigned char **cipher, size_t *cipher_len);
+ extern pdf_obj *pdf_encrypt_obj (void);
+ 
++
++#ifdef __ANDROID__
++static char* getpass(const char* prompt) {
++	static char chars[128];
++	int len = 0;
++	while (true) {
++		char c = fgetc(stdin); 
++		if (c == '\r' || c == '\n' || c == 0) break; 
++		chars[len++] = c;
++		if (len == sizeof(chars)-1) break;
++	} 
++	chars[len] = 0;
++	return chars;
++}
++#endif
+ #endif /* _PDFENCRYPT_H_ */
diff --git a/packages/texlive/termux-install-tl b/packages/texlive/termux-install-tl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f5b6a3168
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/texlive/termux-install-tl
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+export TMPDIR=$PREFIX/tmp/ 
+cd $TMPDIR
+
+wget  http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz
+tar xvzf install-tl-unx.tar.gz
+cd install-tl-*/
+
+#patch install-tl
+sed -E -i "s@/bin/sh@$PREFIX/bin/sh@" tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm 
+
+cat >> texlive_inst.profile << XX
+
+selected_scheme scheme-custom
+TEXDIR $PREFIX/local/texlive/2016
+TEXMFCONFIG ~/.texlive2016/texmf-config
+TEXMFHOME ~/texmf
+TEXMFLOCAL $PREFIX/local/texlive/texmf-local
+TEXMFSYSCONFIG $PREFIX/local/texlive/2016/texmf-config
+TEXMFSYSVAR $PREFIX/local/texlive/2016/texmf-var
+TEXMFVAR ~/.texlive2016/texmf-var
+collection-basic 1
+collection-latex 1
+collection-luatex 1
+in_place 0
+option_adjustrepo 1
+option_autobackup 1
+option_backupdir tlpkg/backups
+option_desktop_integration 0
+option_doc 0
+option_file_assocs 0
+option_fmt 1
+option_letter 0
+option_menu_integration 1
+option_path 0
+option_post_code 1
+option_src 0
+option_sys_bin $PREFIX/bin
+option_sys_info $PREFIX/local/share/info
+option_sys_man $PREFIX/local/share/man
+option_w32_multi_user 0
+option_write18_restricted 1
+portable 0
+
+XX
+
+#start installer with a profile and premade binaries
+perl ./install-tl --custom-bin=$PREFIX/local/texlive/2016/bin/pkg --profile texlive_inst.profile 
+
+mkdir -p $PREFIX/etc/profile.d/
+
+cat > $PREFIX/etc/profile.d/texlive.sh << XX
+export PATH=$PATH:$PREFIX/local/texlive/2016/bin/custom
+export TMPDIR=$PREFIX/tmp/
+
+XX
+
+#fix tlpkg
+sed -E -i "s@/bin/sh@$PREFIX/bin/sh@" $PREFIX/local/texlive/2016/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm
+
+texlinks
diff --git a/packages/texlive/zziplib_disable_have_dirent.patch b/packages/texlive/zziplib_disable_have_dirent.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d52e27a40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/texlive/zziplib_disable_have_dirent.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--- a/libs/zziplib/config.h.in	2013-09-09 10:31:11.000000000 +0200
++++ l/libs/zziplib/config.h.in	2016-12-20 20:17:28.906466862 +0100
+@@ -12,9 +12,7 @@
+ /* Define to 1 if you have the <direct.h> header file. */
+ #undef HAVE_DIRECT_H
+ 
+-/* Define to 1 if you have the <dirent.h> header file, and it defines `DIR'.
+-   */
+-#undef HAVE_DIRENT_H
++
+ 
+ /* Define to 1 if you have the <fnmatch.h> header file. */
+ #undef HAVE_FNMATCH_H