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<P><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hello,</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I just installed TeXLive 2008 on one of the machines at work. Home machine under Windows XP is already upgraded. Great work! Thanks to all!</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I installed from the 2008-08-22 DVD image. Everything went fine so far. Now I tried to update my TeXLive installation with the online update mechanism. Following problems occured:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- tlmgr gui starts the GUI, but then I cannot enter anything, just the selection of selection boxes and placing the cursor works. But I cannot edit anything. I assume this is a problem with Perl-TK? I use SuSE Linux 11.0, unfortunately there is no SuSE under </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://tug.org/texlive/distro.html#perltk"><SPAN LANG="de"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://tug.org/texlive/distro.html#perltk</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">My versions are</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">tlmgr --version</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">tlmgr revision 10392</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">TeX Live (</FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://tug.org/texlive"><SPAN LANG="de"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://tug.org/texlive</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">) version 2008</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">texlive-20080822</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">rpm -qi perl-Tk</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Distribution: openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64)</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Name : perl-Tk Relocations: (not relocatable)</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Version : 804.028 Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Release : 47.1 Build Date: Sat Jun 7 04:13:43 2008</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Install Date: Fri Aug 1 11:30:25 2008 Build Host: cimarosa.suse.de</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Group : Development/Libraries/Perl Source RPM: perl-Tk-804.028-47.1.src.rpm</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Size : 7401373 License: Artistic License; Public Domain, Freeware</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Signature : DSA/SHA1, Sat Jun 7 04:18:40 2008, Key ID a84edae89c800aca</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Packager : </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://bugs.opensuse.org"><SPAN LANG="de"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://bugs.opensuse.org</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">URL : </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://cpan.org/modules/by-module/Tk/"><SPAN LANG="de"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://cpan.org/modules/by-module/Tk/</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Summary : Perl Tk</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Description :</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Perl Tk is an enhancement for Perl. It combines the well structured</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">graphical library Tk with the powerful scripting language Perl.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- When I select default network location of archive under tlmgr gui I get the error that no packages can be found.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- text version doesn't work either </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">tlmgr --location </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/software/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008"><SPAN LANG="de"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/software/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> update --list</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Cannot read any package from </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/software/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb"><SPAN LANG="de"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/software/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">, seems not to be a TLPDB!Cannot load TeX Live database from </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/software/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008"><SPAN LANG="de"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/software/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> at /usr/local/TeX/bin/x86_64-linux/tlmgr line 616. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I substituted already </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://mirror.ctan…"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://mirror.ctan…</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">. by a suitable mirror (under Windows I get the name resolution).</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I assume that the online update does not work hast to do with our proxy. Under SuSE yast2 I've set proxy server inclusive user name and password. In addition, I have the following files</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">.wgetrc:</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">--proxy-user="sct2si1" --proxy-password="xxxxxxxx" --proxy="<A HREF="http://10.4.102.12:8080">http://10.4.102.12:8080</A>"</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">.curlrc:</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Changed by YaST2 module proxy 08/01/08</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">--proxy-user "sct2si1:xxxxxxxx"</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">--proxy "</FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://10.4.102.12:8080"><SPAN LANG="de"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://10.4.102.12:8080</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">"</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Normal SuSE Online Update does work (i.e. proxy setting is correct), but I doesn't work with tlmgr. What can I do about it? Is there any environment variable for the tlmgr internal perl that I can set?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Torsten</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="de"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Dr. Torsten Schütze </FONT></B></SPAN>
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