[tex-live] Unknown directive ...containerchecksum

[David Carlisle]

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 c59200574a316416a23695c258edf3a32531fbda43ccdc09360ee105c3f07f9fb77df17c4ba4c2ea4f3a5ea6667e064b51e3d8c2fe6c984ba3e71b4e32716955... , 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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