[tex-live] Updating texlive

[Robin Fairbairns]

Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi at alice.it> wrote:

> After having installed texlive on Cygwin [1], we need an update...

are you sure?  have you tried using the stuff?

> Since I never used these things before, I ask some little help...
> 
> The first thing I did is:
> 
> $ tlmgr -location
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008 update -list
> dvips: local: 9300, source: 10420
> gmdoc: local: 10314, source: 10417
> gmutils: local: 10317, source: 10416
> gmverb: local: 10315, source: 10418
> 
> then
> 
> $ tlmgr -location
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008 update -all
> update: dvips (first remove old, then install new)
> remove: dvips
> install: dvips
> update: dvips done
> update: gmdoc (first remove old, then install new)
> remove: gmdoc
> install: gmdoc
> update: gmdoc done
> update: gmutils (first remove old, then install new)
> remove: gmutils
> install: gmutils
> update: gmutils done
> update: gmverb (first remove old, then install new)
> remove: gmverb
> install: gmverb
> update: gmverb done
> running mktexlsr
> mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf-local/ls-R...
> mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/ls-R...
> mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-config/ls-R...
> mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/ls-R...
> mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-doc/ls-R...
> mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var/ls-R...
> mktexlsr: Done.
> 
> Should I run other things or the above is ALL?

the things you've downloaded don't seem to imply anything other than
what's been done.

> For example I do not see in the above output things like
> 
> regenerating fmtutil.cnf
> running fmtutil-sys...
> 
> They need? How?

not if the system works already.

r