<div dir="ltr">further information about this possible bug: the error happens only if my computer (a dell xps 15) is connected to the d3100 docking station (with monitors attached to it)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Alessandro Cuttin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.f.cuttin@gmail.com" target="_blank">a.f.cuttin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">hi there,<div><br></div><div>I just installed on a brand new machine the TeXlive 2017 using Enrico Gregorio's <a href="http://profs.scienze.univr.it/~gregorio/texlive-YEAR-ubuntu.pdf" target="_blank">guide</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Everything is fine except for the fact that when I launch the tlmgr I get the following error:<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>afcuttin@millenium-falcon:~/<wbr>idic-comml$ sutlmgr</div><div>Loading local TeX Live database</div><div>(/usr/local/texlive/2017/<wbr>tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb)</div><div>This may take some time, please be patient ...</div><div>bad pad value "2m": must be positive screen distance at </div><div>/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/<wbr>perl5/5.22/Tk/Widget.pm line 1218.</div><div>at /usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-<wbr>dist/scripts/texlive/<a href="http://tlmgrgui.pl" target="_blank">tlmgrgui.<wbr>pl</a> line 295.</div><div>Compilation failed in require at /opt/texbin/tlmgr line 4724.</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>the command sutlmg is just an alias for sudo /opt/texbin/tlmgr -gui as per the installation guide.</div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately it seems that Google is not my friend at finding a solution to this error.</div></div><div><br></div><div>(BTW, this is also a question on TeX.stackexchange: <a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/384565/177" target="_blank">https://<wbr>tex.stackexchange.com/q/<wbr>384565/177</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>thanks,</div><div>-Alessandro Cuttin </div></div>
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