[tex-live] tlmgr gives error message

[Scott D Friedemann]

On 12/31/09 18:21, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> first, please no HTML email ...
>
> On Do, 31 Dez 2009, Scott D Friedemann wrote:
>    
>>     Fresh install on FreeBSD.  Running tlmgr.pl give this.
>>      
> How did you run it?
> 	perl ......./scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
> ?
>
>    
>>     Can't locate TeXLive/TLConfig.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
>>     ./../../texmf/scripts/texlive ./../../tlpkg
>>      
> That tells me that you are not running it from
> 	bin/XXX-freebsd/tlmgr
> but from texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
>
> That does not work, because tlmgr uses SELFAUTOPARENT (../..) to
> fined tlpkg. Thus you end up with
> 	./../../tlpkg
> in the search path, which is bad.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
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