[tex-live] tlmgr broken?
Norbert Preining
preining at logic.at
Wed Oct 29 22:32:51 CET 2008
On Mi, 29 Okt 2008, Jobst Hoffmann wrote:
> Thank you for your help, tlmgr is working again.
Good to hear.
> A little additional request: I had a problem to find out, which package
> I had to reinstall; I finally managed that by downloading the file from
> the svn repository (is that the intended way?).
well, there are simpler way, but not in your case, because tlmgr was not
working ...
Normally you can do
tlmgr search --file tlmgr
or something similar (see man page or texdoc tlmgr).
In your case because tlmgr was broken you could just open
<ROOT>/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
(where <ROOT> is the installation directory, normally
/usr/local/texlive/2008) and search the respective file. Then scroll up
for the next
name XXXXXX
and XXXXX will be the package.
In short time there will be a auto-exec for unix, too...
Best wishes
Norbert
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