[tex-live] texlivetest2008

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Mon Jun 30 21:24:43 CEST 2008


Richard David Sherman writes:
 > SORRY. I just accidentally deleted your response to my email
 > yesterday. (Got mixed in with a ton of junk.)

 > Could not find any 'AddPackage' utility, so just copied the extras
 > needed, oberdiek and revtex, to the build directory. (What happened
 > to that feature?)

run tlmgr help or tlmgr gui.

 > However, I am using a little over 1% of the texlive distro, so why
 > pull down the full shebang? I then spent lots of time with the online
 > installer. Total failure!

This is a known problem.  Will certainly be fixed soon.
 
 > I wrote a custom $HOME/.wgetrc, actually several versions, but the
 > perl script never saw it. I think it's a wget issue, but, I can not
 > track it down.

TL uses its own wgetrc, see tlpkg/installer/wgetrc.  But don't expect
too much, the problems can't be solved there.
 
Regards,
  Reinhard

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