diff --git a/srcpkgs/texlive2018-bin/INSTALL b/srcpkgs/texlive2018-bin/INSTALL
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3e69f22371c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/texlive2018-bin/INSTALL
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+case "${ACTION}" in
+post)
+	case "${UPDATE}" in
+	no)
+		cd opt/texlive2018-installer
+		case "${ARCH}" in
+			x86_64-musl)
+			./install-tl -profile void.profile -force-platform x86_64-linuxmusl
+			;;
+			*)
+			./install-tl -profile void.profile
+			;;
+		esac
+	esac
+esac
diff --git a/srcpkgs/texlive2018-bin/INSTALL.msg b/srcpkgs/texlive2018-bin/INSTALL.msg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e8f0875f036
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/texlive2018-bin/INSTALL.msg
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+- TeXLive is free software see the files:
+
+  /usr/share/licenses/texlive2018-bin/LICENSE.TL
+  /usr/share/licenses/texlive2018-bin/LICENSE.CTAN
+
+=====================================================================
+
+  To update you TeXLive installation use only the program 
+
+  /opt/texlive/2018/<arch>/tlmgr
+
+  where <arch> is:
+    - x86_64-linux  ==> x86_64 architecture
+    - i386-linux    ==> i386 architecture
+
+  see:
+
+  http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/tlmgr.html#EXAMPLES
+  
+  for the details and the documentation in 
+    		 		 
+  WARNING: To avoid messing up your TeXLive installation, DON'T use
+  the installation scripts in /opt/texlive-installer.
diff --git a/srcpkgs/texlive2018-bin/REMOVE b/srcpkgs/texlive2018-bin/REMOVE
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f57ffa8f452
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/texlive2018-bin/REMOVE
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# This script will clear the TeXLive directory  
+#
+case "${ACTION}" in
+post)
+	rm -rf opt/texlive/2018
+	rm -r opt/texlive2018-installer
+	;;
+esac
diff --git a/srcpkgs/texlive2018-bin/files/void.profile b/srcpkgs/texlive2018-bin/files/void.profile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..03d412b2f55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/texlive2018-bin/files/void.profile
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# texlive.profile written for voidlinux
+TEXDIR ../texlive/2018
+TEXMFCONFIG ~/.texlive2018/texmf-config
+TEXMFHOME ~/texmf
+TEXMFLOCAL ../texlive/texmf-local
+TEXMFSYSCONFIG ../texlive/2018/texmf-config
+TEXMFSYSVAR ../texlive/2018/texmf-var
+TEXMFVAR ~/.texlive2018/texmf-var
diff --git a/srcpkgs/texlive2018-bin/template b/srcpkgs/texlive2018-bin/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0294dd914b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/texlive2018-bin/template
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+# Template file for 'texlive-bin'
+pkgname=texlive2018-bin
+version=2018
+revision=1
+maintainer="Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>"
+homepage="http://tug.org/texlive/"
+license="GPL-2"
+short_desc="TeX Live Binary distribution through tl-install"
+depends="cairo pixman graphite gd poppler libsigsegv
+ zziplib libpng libjpeg-turbo freetype icu harfbuzz wget perl
+ ghostscript xz"
+distfiles="ftp://ftp.tug.org/texlive/historic/${version}/install-tl-unx.tar.gz>${pkgname}-${version}-${revision}.tar.gz"
+checksum=82c13110852af162c4c5ef1579fa2f4f51c2040850ec02fb7f97497da45eb446
+create_wrksrc=yes
+
+# Package build options
+build_options="basic small medium full"
+build_options_default="small"
+desc_option_basic="Install TeXLive using scheme-basic"
+desc_option_small="Install TeXLive using scheme-small"
+desc_option_medium="Install TeXLive using scheme-medium"
+desc_option_full="Install TeXLive using scheme-full"
+
+pre_install() {
+	rm -rf ${wrksrc}/install-tl*/tlpkg/installer/xz \
+		${wrksrc}/install-tl*/tlpkg/installer/wget
+}
+
+do_install() {
+	vmkdir opt/texlive${version}-installer
+	vcopy "install-tl-*/*" /opt/texlive${version}-installer
+	vinstall ${FILESDIR}/void.profile 644 opt/texlive${version}-installer
+	if [ "$build_option_basic" ]; then
+		echo "selected_scheme scheme-basic"
+	elif [ "$build_option_small" ]; then
+		echo "selected_scheme scheme-small"
+	elif [ "$build_option_medium" = "medium" ];then
+		echo "selected_scheme scheme-medium"
+	elif [ "$build_option_full" ];then
+		echo "selected_scheme scheme-full"
+	fi >>${DESTDIR}/opt/texlive${version}-installer/void.profile
+	vlicense ${DESTDIR}/opt/texlive${version}-installer/LICENSE.CTAN
+	vlicense ${DESTDIR}/opt/texlive${version}-installer/LICENSE.TL
+}