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[Luiz Gonçalves]

Sorry, my error.
I have actually had a hard time installing Texlive 2018 and removing tl2016
(another hard time to install).
Your info about i386 architecture is OK but it seems to me that's not the
most common nowadays, and so can mislead one to make errors. Not in my
case, as I took a good reading in the page and some notes about the painful
tl2016 installation. Everything went smoothly after some 3 workarounds and
some hours; "everything" includes running xelatex form command-line and
from Kile.

Problems I had: as it is my case, not a Linux expert, I had some possibly
trivial problems with manpath.config.
1) As suggested
MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/texlive/2018/bin/x86_64-linux \
            /usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/doc/man
for which I had
for luiz:
luiz at black10:~$ man apt
man: can't parse directory list `/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/doc/man
'
man: can't make sense of the manpath configuration file /etc/manpath.config
I use Ubuntu and the continuation character \ is not recognized, the
problems disappeared after removing it and leaving all info in one line, as
in
MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/texlive/2018/bin/x86_64-linux
/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/doc/man

2) /etc/environment. Just placed /usr/local/texlive/2018/bin/x86_64-linux
at PATH
PATH="/usr/local/texlive/2018/bin/x86_64-linux:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games"

3) No need for symlinks.

I know that brevity is important but texlive is a winner among newbies and
experts, at tex.stackexchange and around the web.
Nevertheless, congrats for your inestimable good work and time, and for TUG
team (my companion of some decades).

Cheers

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 11:40 AM Enrico Gregorio <enrico.gregorio at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> > On 17 Sep 2018, at 05:43 , Luiz Gonçalves <lcdgoncalves at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 3.4.1 Environment variables for Unix
> >
> > ....
> >
> > PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2018/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH; export PATH
> > MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/doc/man:$MANPATH; export
> MANPATH
> > INFOPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/doc/info:$INFOPATH; export
> INFOPATH
> >
> > and not
> >
> > PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2018/bin/i386-linux:$PATH; export PATH
> > MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/doc/man:$MANPATH; export
> MANPATH
> > INFOPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/doc/info:$INFOPATH; export
> INFOPATH
> >
> > and the same error is reproduced all over the page.
>
> The documentation could be improved by showing the most common
> architecture strings and using a placeholder in the code (but one
> of the strings could be good as well, provided it’s explained clearly
> what’s to be actually substituted for a particular system).
>
> But, for sanity’s sake, PLEASE DON'T send messages formatted
> with the font I don’t want to mention the name of! :-D
>
> Ciao
> Enrico



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