[tex-live] Problem in updating texlive-2009

[S. venkataraman]

As George said, I have installed texlive from scratch.
Earlier, I had a fairly up to date installation of texlive 2009.
I have formatted my hard disk and installed texlive 2009, CTAN  DVD
version, not the Ubuntu version.  So, I know that updates do exist .
I have tried dante, cambridge and
default ctan site without any success.
This is the output I get when I run tlmgr --version command.
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venkat at venkat-laptop:~$ tlmgr --version
tlmgr revision 18011 (2010-04-26 21:41:33 +0200)
tlmgr using installation: /opt/texlive/2009
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As George said, I have a few long running tasks and I am a bit wary of
updating to 2010 just now.
Regarding what Manuel wrote,
>This does not necessarily indicate a problem, unless followed by other
error
>messages. tlmgr is trying one method to connect to the server, this method
>doesn't work, then it says it will be trying another one ("retrying with
wget"
>at the end of the quoted output). If the next method works, you'll see no
other
>message.
here is the full output:
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venkat at venkat-laptop:~$ sudo tlmgr gui
[sudo] password for venkat:
Loading local TeX Live Database
This may take some time, please wait!
Completed.
Loading remote TeX Live Database
This may take some time, please wait!
TLDownload::get_file: response error:
  500 Can't connect to mirror.ctan.org:80 (connect: Connection timed out)
permanent server connection set up, but downloading did not succeed!Retrying
with wget.
TLDownload::get_file: response error:
  500 Can't connect to mirror.ctan.org:80 (connect: Connection timed out)
permanent server connection set up, but downloading did not succeed!Retrying
with wget.
/usr/bin/tlmgr: Could not load packages from
  http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb

You may want to try specifying an explicit or different CTAN mirror;
see the information and examples for the -repository option at
http://tug.org/texlive/doc/install-tl.html
(or in the output of install-tl --help).

Completed.
Executing action update
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The programme doesn't seem to be doing anything after the
last line.  There is not disk activity either.


George, how does one install from the backup?
Is it that, all you have to do is to put back the
links to the executables or does it involve anything more?
Aren't there any environment variables set by texlive that we
have to set by hand again?  Can you elaborate a bit?


Best,
S. Venkataraman
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:05 PM, George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>
> wrote:
> > On Mi, 28 Jul 2010, S. venkataraman wrote:
> >> Use of uninitialized value $defaults{"backupdir"} in string ne at
> >> /opt/texlive/2009/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgrgui.pl line 1112.
> >
> > Can you please send the output of
> >        tlmgr --version
> >
> >> sudo tlmgr update --all -repository
> >> ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet
> >> tlmgr: package repository
> >> ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet
> >> TLDownload::get_file: response error:
> >>   500 LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: connect: Connection timed out
> >> permanent server connection set up, but downloading did not
> succeed!Retrying
> >> with wget.
> >
> > That is all fine up to now, did it update anyting?
> >
> >> What is the solution this problem?
> >
> > What is the exact problem? There are probably no updates for TL2009,
> > if you have updated some time ago.
> >
> > TL2009 is frozen since quite some time, no updates are going into it
> > anymore.
> >
> > So maybe all is fine.
>
> Not completely sure what OP is attempting, but there is a common
> "use case" where user with limited internet access has to replace
> a virused, broken, or stolen system that was using TL2009, starting
> from a DVD, but knows they need updates released during the lifetime
> of TL2009.
>
> Someone in this position may have spent considerable time on the
> upgrade treadmill (what with waiting for slow downloads) getting a TeX
> installation that works for their multi-year project (think book).
> Bad enough that the previous linux version won't run on the new
> hardware -- all the apps have new versions with potentially new
> bugs so they are faced with repeating a process they know will be
> painful.   Note that a small minority of such users have backups,
> but many of those find the backups aren't usable with the newer
> hardware/OS.
>
> CTAN TL has the advantage that one can just backup the texlive
> tree (e.g., copy to DVD) and have a reasonably good chance that
> it can be restored on a newer hardware/OS version, (or even a
> different OS if they can find the appropriate binaries).
>
> --
> George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
>
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