<div dir="ltr">This should be a qeustion for Linux maintainers. All Linux distributions provide its xzdec. CentOS and Fedora install it as default, Raspbian requires manual installation of the .deb package, it is probably the same in Debian. IMHO it is not a wise idea to duplicate a part of a system distribution just because a user has not installed it. And tlmgr cannot install it automatically because the name of the package is distro dependent and the name of the packager differs as well (dnf, yum, apt-get, ...). In addition, TeX Live (from TUG, not from the packaging systems) should preferably be installed by an ordinary user while the package containing xzdec must be installed by root or using sudo.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Zdeněk Wagner<br><a href="http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml" target="_blank">http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml</a><br><a href="http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz" target="_blank">http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz</a></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-01-06 22:51 GMT+01:00 Philip Taylor (RHUoL) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk" target="_blank">P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_-1596046784656372001moz-cite-prefix">Zdeněk Wagner wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">The answer is in the message if you read more that
the last line: Please install xzdec and try again.<br>
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But on Microsoft Windows, "xzdec" will not exist <i>a priori</i>,
and so the installer will provide one; could not the same behaviour
be offered for non-Windows users ?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Philip Taylor<br>
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