[tex-live] install problem, texlive-2017

[George N. White III]

On 15 March 2018 at 06:49, <karl at aspodata.se> wrote:

As user texlive.texlive I installed texlive2017, but I have trouble
> getting it to work.
>
> E.g.:
> $ kpsewhich article.cls
> $ find . -name article.cls
> ./2017/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> $ pwd
> /usr/local/texlive
> $
>
> any ideas ?
>
> =======================
>  I have added:
> MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/doc/man
> INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/doc/info
> PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/texlive/2017/bin/x86_64-linux
>  [...]


OP Karl  has:

$ ls -l /usr/local
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 23  2016 /usr/local -> ../home/local

TL is designed so you can put it anywhwere in your filesystem
and have it work by adjusting the PATH variable.  Is there any
pressing reason to use /usr/local/texlive over /home/local/texlive?

OP Karl -- can you try:

  PATH=/home/local/texlive/2017/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH

It could be instructive to play around with the kpsewhich debugging
options.
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