[tex-live] tlmgr --self

[Norbert Preining]

On Do, 30 Jul 2009, Uwe Siart wrote:
> With the background of your explanations above I agree. But then I also
> see the need for an option to tell tlmgr to install all removed
> packages. Without it would be tedious to obtain a full installation
> again after a few months of '--no-auto-install' (if such option already
> exists I have overlooked it).

There is no simple option, but 
	tlmgr install --reinstall collection-foobar
will install the missing packages. But you have to find out which
of the missing packages are in which collections (tlmgr show).

Best wishes

Norbert

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