[texhax] TeX Live 2011 release available

[Lars Madsen]

Moshe Kamensky wrote, On 2011-07-23 20:39:
> Thanks! Is there any advantage to installing it from scratch, rather 
> than using tlmgr (from TeX Live 2010) to simply update the packages?
> 
> Thanks,
> Moshe
> 

Upgrading is only available on Unix like systems and is not foolproof.

I would not expect tlmgr from TL2010 to actually be able to pick up the 
updated packages. They are presumably packages for a newer version of 
tlmgr and tlmgr from '10 will simply fail with a mismatching version.

> * Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> [21/07/11 19:12]:
>> We've gone ahead with the network release of TeX Live 2011 (as some
>> people have already noticed :).  It is now or will be soon available
>> from CTAN sites (http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive).  As with last
>> year, we recommend doing a network install in one way or another instead
>> of downloading the large (2+gb) .iso -- see
>> http://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html for a discussion of the various
>> alternatives.
>>
>> Package updates will restart in another day or two.
>>
>> If anyone notices stale or missing information on the TL web pages, or
>> problems with the release, please report as usual.
>>
>> MacTeX 2011 (http://tug.org/mactex) and proTeXt 3.0 for 2011
>> (http://tug.org/protext) have also been released and are available from
>> CTAN.
>>
>> The TeX Collection DVD with all the above will be released as soon as
>> possible; hopefully, it will go out in August.
>>
>> Happy TeXing,
>> Karl
>>
>> P.S. RobinF, can you resend this announcement to ctan-ann, please?
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