[tex-live] Unknown directive ...containerchecksum

Sharon Kimble boudiccas at skimble.plus.com
Mon May 16 20:11:28 CEST 2016


David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com> writes:

> 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

You were right, it was from texlive2015, and getting the correct one has
solved the problem and I'm updating as I speak.

Thanks
Sharon.
>
>>
>> --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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