diff --git a/disabled-packages/texlive/termux-install-tl b/disabled-packages/texlive/termux-install-tl
deleted file mode 100755
index f5b6a3168..000000000
--- a/disabled-packages/texlive/termux-install-tl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-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/perl/Cwd.pm.patch b/packages/perl/Cwd.pm.patch
index 7373efc71..333feeb1e 100644
--- a/packages/perl/Cwd.pm.patch
+++ b/packages/perl/Cwd.pm.patch
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 diff -u -r ../perl-5.22.0/dist/PathTools/Cwd.pm ./dist/PathTools/Cwd.pm
---- ../perl-5.22.0/dist/PathTools/Cwd.pm	2015-05-13 16:19:29.000000000 -0400
-+++ ./dist/PathTools/Cwd.pm	2015-08-30 13:34:33.445269291 -0400
-@@ -168,9 +168,8 @@
+--- ../perl-5.24.1/dist/PathTools/Cwd.pm	2016-07-25 09:12:20.000000000 +0000
++++ ./dist/PathTools/Cwd.pm	2017-02-28 20:36:10.314765294 +0000
+@@ -179,9 +179,8 @@
  # so everything works under taint mode.
  my $pwd_cmd;
  if($^O ne 'MSWin32') {
@@ -13,3 +13,12 @@ diff -u -r ../perl-5.22.0/dist/PathTools/Cwd.pm ./dist/PathTools/Cwd.pm
  		    ) {
  	if( -x $try ) {
  	    $pwd_cmd = $try;
+@@ -198,7 +197,7 @@
+ if ($^O =~ /android/) {
+     # If targetsh is executable, then we're either a full
+     # perl, or a miniperl for a native build.
+-    if (-x $Config::Config{targetsh}) {
++    if (defined($Config::Config{targetsh}) && -x $Config::Config{targetsh}) {
+         $pwd_cmd = "$Config::Config{targetsh} -c pwd"
+     }
+     else {
diff --git a/disabled-packages/texlive/build.sh b/packages/texlive/build.sh
similarity index 56%
rename from disabled-packages/texlive/build.sh
rename to packages/texlive/build.sh
index d7355242e..b0fd601f1 100644
--- a/disabled-packages/texlive/build.sh
+++ b/packages/texlive/build.sh
@@ -1,16 +1,22 @@
 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
+_MAJOR_VERSION=20160523
+_MINOR_VERSION=b
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}${_MINOR_VERSION}
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION:0:4}/texlive-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}-source.tar.xz
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256="a8b32ca47f0a403661a09e202f4567a995beb718c18d8f81ca6d76daa1da21ed"
-TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="freetype, libpng, libgd, libgmp, libmpfr, libicu, liblua, poppler"
-TERMUX_PKG_FOLDERNAME=texlive-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}-source
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="freetype, libpng, libgd, libgmp, libmpfr, libicu, liblua, poppler, libgraphite, harfbuzz-icu, perl, xz-utils"
+TERMUX_PKG_FOLDERNAME=texlive-${_MAJOR_VERSION}-source
+
+# change the bin directory to "$TERMUX_PREFIX/opt/texlive/2016/bin/pkg" because the installer will symlink this to the actual bin dir..
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="
 AR=ar \
 RANLIB=ranlib \
 BUILDAR=ar \
 BUILDRANLIB=ranlib \
---prefix=$TERMUX_PREFIX \
+--prefix=$TERMUX_PREFIX/opt/texlive/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION:0:4} \
+--bindir=$TERMUX_PREFIX/opt/texlive/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION:0:4}/bin/pkg \
+--libdir=$TERMUX_PREFIX/lib \
 --build=$TERMUX_BUILD_TUPLE \
 --enable-ttfdump=no \
 --enable-makeindexk=no \
@@ -27,11 +33,12 @@ BUILDRANLIB=ranlib \
 --disable-psutils \
 --disable-multiplatform \
 --disable-t1utils \
---disable-luatex \
+--enable-luatex \
 --disable-luajittex \
 --disable-mflua \
 --disable-mfluajit \
 --disable-xz \
+--disable-pmx \
 --without-texinfo \
 --without-xdvipdfmx \
 --without-texi2html \
@@ -46,19 +53,23 @@ BUILDRANLIB=ranlib \
 --with-system-poppler \
 --with-system-zlib \
 --with-system-xpdf \
+--with-system-lua \
 --without-x \
 --with-banner-add=/Termux"
 
 termux_step_post_extract_package () {
-	rm -r $TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR/utils/pmx
+        rm -rdf $TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR/libs/luajit
 }
 
 termux_step_post_make_install () {
-	cp $TERMUX_PKG_BUILDER_DIR/termux-install-tl $TERMUX_PREFIX/bin
+	cp $TERMUX_PKG_BUILDER_DIR/termux-install-tl.sh $TERMUX_PREFIX/bin/termux-install-tl
 }
 
 termux_step_create_debscripts () {
-	echo 'echo "retrieving texlive..."' > postinst
+        echo 'echo "========================================================"' > postinst
+	echo 'echo "retrieving texlive..."' >> postinst
+	echo 'echo "you can start this manually by calling termux-install-tl"' >> postinst
+        echo 'echo "========================================================"' >> postinst
 	echo "termux-install-tl" >> postinst
 	echo "exit 0" >> postinst
 	chmod 0755 postinst
diff --git a/disabled-packages/texlive/dvipdfm-x_fix_getpass.patch b/packages/texlive/dvipdfm-x_fix_getpass.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from disabled-packages/texlive/dvipdfm-x_fix_getpass.patch
rename to packages/texlive/dvipdfm-x_fix_getpass.patch
diff --git a/packages/texlive/termux-install-tl.sh b/packages/texlive/termux-install-tl.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..201eff9c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/texlive/termux-install-tl.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+
+TL_VERSION=2016
+TL_ROOT=$PREFIX/opt/texlive
+
+export TMPDIR=$PREFIX/tmp/ 
+mkdir -p $TMPDIR/termux-tl-installer
+cd $TMPDIR/termux-tl-installer
+
+wget -N http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz
+tar xzfv install-tl-unx.tar.gz > flist
+
+cd $(head -1 flist) 
+
+#patch install-tl
+sed -E -i "s@/bin/sh@$PREFIX/bin/sh@" tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm 
+#This patch won't be needed after the next version of fmtutil.pl is released.
+sed -i "s@fmtutil-sys \$common_fmtutil_args --no-strict --all@fmtutil-sys \$common_fmtutil_args --all@" install-tl
+cat > texlive_inst.profile << XXHEREXX
+
+selected_scheme scheme-custom
+TEXDIR ${TL_ROOT}/${TL_VERSION}
+TEXMFCONFIG ~/.texlive${TL_VERSION}/texmf-config
+TEXMFHOME ~/texmf
+TEXMFLOCAL ${TL_ROOT}/texmf-local
+TEXMFSYSCONFIG ${TL_ROOT}/${TL_VERSION}/texmf-config
+TEXMFSYSVAR ${TL_ROOT}/${TL_VERSION}/texmf-var
+TEXMFVAR ~/.texlive${TL_VERSION}/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 $PREFIX/local/share/man
+option_w32_multi_user 0
+option_write18_restricted 1
+portable 0
+
+XXHEREXX
+
+#start installer with a profile and premade binaries
+perl ./install-tl --custom-bin=$TL_ROOT/${TL_VERSION}/bin/pkg --profile texlive_inst.profile 
+
+mkdir -p $PREFIX/etc/profile.d/
+
+cat > $PREFIX/etc/profile.d/texlive.sh << XXHEREXX
+export PATH=\$PATH:$TL_ROOT/${TL_VERSION}/bin/custom
+export TMPDIR=$PREFIX/tmp/
+XXHEREXX
+
+#fix tlpkg
+sed -E -i "s@/bin/sh@$PREFIX/bin/sh@" ${TL_ROOT}/${TL_VERSION}/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm
+
+#source the environment
+. $PREFIX/etc/profile.d/texlive.sh 
+
+#setup links
+texlinks
+
+rm -rdf $TMPDIR/termux-tl-installer
diff --git a/disabled-packages/texlive/zziplib_disable_have_dirent.patch b/packages/texlive/zziplib_disable_have_dirent.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from disabled-packages/texlive/zziplib_disable_have_dirent.patch
rename to packages/texlive/zziplib_disable_have_dirent.patch