[tex-live] Unknown directive ...containerchecksum

[mario chiari]

hi

I am suffering the same issue.
Which script should I get, which server should I get it from?
thanks
cheers
mario

On Mon, 2016-05-16 at 18:51 +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
> On 16 May 2016 at 18:36, Sharon Kimble <boudiccas at skimble.plus.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I had a problem with tlmgr, so I used ' tlmgr update --self' which
> > failed so I then tried ' ./update-tlmgr-latest.sh' which failed with
> > this error report -
> 
> Did you get  update-tlmgr-latest.sh from the tlpretest mirror, not the
> one linked from the top level texlive page (which is 2015 version)
> I've seen that error after makingtthat mistake myself:-)
> 
> David
> 
> > 
> > 
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > tlmgr update --self
> > Unknown directive ...containerchecksum
> > c59200574a316416a23695c258edf3a32531fbda43ccdc09360ee105c3f07f9fb77df17c4ba4
> > c2ea4f3a5ea6667e064b51e3d8c2fe6c984ba3e71b4e32716955... , please fix it! at
> > /usr/local/texlive/2016/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm line 210, <TMP> line 36.
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> > 
> > Now tlmgr is failing to work. Is it possible to copy over tlmgr from
> > texlive 2015 to get things working properly again? If not, how do I get
> > texlive2016-pretest working again please?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Sharon.
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> 
>