tlmgr in a Ubuntu-installed texlive

Marcel Fabian Krüger tex at 2krueger.de
Sun Aug 2 16:33:15 CEST 2020


On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 03:23:29PM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote:
> Ah, thank you Marcel — all is now blindingly clear.  I wonder, then, whether
> the message might usefully be amended to read
> 
> 
>     TLPDB: Cannot determine type of tlpdb from /home/norbert/texmf!
>     tlmgr: running in usermode; please call `tlmgr init-usertree' if you have not already done so.
> 

I think in this situation, where the problem seems to be that at least
one person (probably many more) just ran the given command without thinking
too much about it, would suggest to move into a different direction and
not to provide any direct command people can run. Maybe;
 
     TLPDB: Cannot determine type of tlpdb from /home/name/texmf!
     tlmgr: running in usermode; please read the manual at https://url-to-the-appropriate-manual for instruction to initialize your usertree.
 
Marcel


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