tlmgr in a Ubuntu-installed texlive
Bob Tennent
rdtennent at gmail.com
Sun Aug 2 15:06:47 CEST 2020
BUT, tlmgr does NOT work out of the box on Debian/Ubuntu. Without any
specific action from the user, it does nothing:
$ tlmgr update --list
(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
TLPDB: Cannot determine type of tlpdb from /home/norbert/texmf!
tlmgr: running in usermode, did you call `tlmgr init-usertree'?
$
So a user needs to actively setting up user mode before it can work.
A user who does this without reading the manual about tlmgr user mode
is on their own.
This user *did*, as instructed, tlmgr init-usertree and was
happy for a while, but then ran into problems. Perhaps a
stern message about reading the manual (with a link to the
html version) is needed.
Bob T.
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