<div dir="ltr">2018-01-07 19:48 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><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Zdeněk Wagner wrote:<br>
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This should be a question 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>
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Well, I am confused, Zdeněk. What are all these instances of "xzdec" which accompanied the pre-test ?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I do not know. My TeX Live contains such files in installer/xz but "which xzdec" finds that file in a system directory (TeX Live binaries are prefered, they are higher in PATH).<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
** Phil.<br>
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Directory of D:\TeX\Live\2017\tlpretest\tlp<wbr>kg\installer\xz<br>
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17/04/2017 23:32 72,784 xzdec.amd64-freebsd<br>
15/04/2017 13:58 73,008 xzdec.amd64-netbsd<br>
26/04/2017 16:42 62,012 xzdec.armel-linux<br>
25/11/2016 18:34 64,444 xzdec.armhf-linux<br>
13/04/2017 21:24 111,104 xzdec.exe<br>
15/04/2017 20:32 83,470 xzdec.i386-cygwin.exe<br>
16/04/2017 22:49 100,536 xzdec.i386-darwin<br>
17/04/2017 23:32 69,884 xzdec.i386-freebsd<br>
13/04/2017 20:40 71,064 xzdec.i386-linux<br>
15/04/2017 13:58 75,968 xzdec.i386-netbsd<br>
19/04/2017 15:29 71,260 xzdec.i386-solaris<br>
16/04/2017 22:49 127,900 xzdec.powerpc-darwin<br>
29/04/2017 21:57 69,732 xzdec.powerpc-linux<br>
19/04/2017 15:29 74,188 xzdec.sparc-solaris<br>
15/04/2017 20:32 74,752 xzdec.x86_64-cygwin.exe<br>
15/04/2017 23:15 76,276 xzdec.x86_64-darwin<br>
16/04/2017 22:49 80,128 xzdec.x86_64-darwinlegacy<br>
15/04/2017 01:00 72,472 xzdec.x86_64-linux<br>
19/04/2017 15:29 76,568 xzdec.x86_64-solaris<br>
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<br><br clear="all"><div><div class="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>
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