[tex-live] Sorting out updmap/updmap-sys-troubles

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Wed, 23 May 2012 12:02:06 +0200 schrieb Zdenek Wagner:

>> But I already found a following question: While reading in the
>> installation instructions of TeXLive 2011 I found this sentence:
>>
>> "You do not need to be root (administrator on Windows) to install,
>> use, or manage TeX Live. In fact, we recommend installing it as a
>> normal user,..."

>> If the default installation is as normal user, why do the users have
>> to bother with updmap-sys at all? On miktex with a single-user
>> installation in a restricted account you only have to (can) use
>> updmap.

> I am not a Windows user but I can explain what I do on Linux. I select
> a normal user (usually me) who will be responsible for TeX Live
> maintanance. I ask "root" to create /usr/local/texlive and change the
> ownership so that the TL maintainer has write access.
[...]

Hm. But to be able "to ask root" you must know an admin password?
This doesn't sound like an installation "as normal user" to me ;-)

I normally install miktex only for me in a restricted account
without any admin rights or knowledge of admin rights (at my job I
wouldn't get them anyway). 

-- 
Ulrike Fischer