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

[Axel E. Retif]

On  10 Feb, 2009, at 03:48, Norbert Preining wrote:

> On Di, 10 Feb 2009, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>> No, it's wrong. /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/x86_64-linux must be at
>> the beginning of PATH. Linux often installs parts of teTeX (or  
>> TL2007)
>
> Agreed, but with one comment: One has to remove the install-info  
> binary
> from the TeX Live installation or all package operation of the
> Debian/Ubuntu package manager will break, because there is a different
> install-info.

Thank you both! As I said, I still have a lot to learn about Ubuntu  
(Linux).[1] On the other hand, I think I have been very careful about  
installing with Synaptic any program that depends on TeXLive (2007);  
and by careful I mean I don't ---that's why I built TeXmaker myself.[2]

[1] I bought ``The Official Ubuntu Book'', 3rd. ed., but its target  
seems to be Windows GUI users wanting to use a nicer and better GUI.  
There are not even index entries for bash, .bashxx, .profile, PATH,  
etc., and /etc deserves them merely a couple of lines! My not-so- 
advanced knowledge of Mac OS has been a lot more useful with Ubuntu  
than that book.

[2] Despite my ignorance, TeX Live in Ubuntu is working really, really  
well (and I mean *really* ---more than twice faster than my desktop  
PPC!). I have all my personal fonts (Lucida, MinionPro, etc.) working  
exactly as in my Mac desktop and laptop. The amazing diffps

http://homepage.mac.com/michael.g.sternberg/tex/index.html

shows there is not the slightest difference between the same book  
typeset with both Macs and Ubuntu. Now ---if I only could manage to  
build TeXworks in Ubuntu, all my TeX work would be done in it!

Best,

Axel