[tex-live] Fwd: tlmgr on Ubuntu linux?

Nicolas Vaughan nivaca at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 02:25:13 CET 2009


Hi George,
I downloaded the
update-tlmgr-latest.sh<http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008/update-tlmgr-latest.sh>from
the TeX Live Users Group site, in order to update ---as was suggested
there--- tlmgr.
But I get the following error:

nivaca at nivaca-desktop:~/Desktop/Inbox$ sudo sh update-tlmgr-latest.sh
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing TeX Live Manager
Updater.....................................................................................................................................................................................................
./runme.sh: 5: kpsewhich: not found
./runme.sh: Cannot find TeX Live root using kpsewhich
--var-value=SELFAUTOPARENT.
./runme.sh: Please call update-tlmgr-latest.sh --noexec --keep
./runme.sh: and then call the runme.sh script in the unpacked directory
./runme.sh: with the directory root as the first argument, something like:
./runme.sh: sh runme.sh /path/to/your/texlive/installation/2008

I also did what was suggested now (with the runme.sh script) but with no
luck.


Nicolas


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: [tex-live] tlmgr on Ubuntu linux?
To: Nicolas Vaughan <nivaca at gmail.com>
Cc: tex-live at tug.org


On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Nicolas Vaughan <nivaca at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, I finally installed TeX Live manually on Ubuntu 8.10; I used the ISO
> image.
> However, I had to add manually the bin path to my .bashrc, in order to
> access the files. Is this usual?

Yes.  TL is self-contained.  It touches only a few locations, and does
not change
existing configs, so you if you decided to remove, you only have to undo
changes
you have made.   In addition to the main tree, "tmp" directories are used,
and
generated formats may go in ~/.texlive2008 if you don't use the -sys
versions
of the utilities.

> I haven't been able to update neither tlmgr nor TeX Live.
>
> Any tips?

What did you try?  Do you have reliable network access to one of the CTAN
sites?  I don't, and find it much better to make a local mirror of the
TL directory
and then install from that.  You may have to chose a mirror site yourself
rather
than rely on the mirror site to pick something for you.

--
George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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