Use of uninitialized value $r in split at /usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 4157.

[Norbert Preining]

Dear Maria,

please keep the mailing list in Cc

> tlmgr: Remote repository is newer than local (2017 < 2019)

Yes indeed, since your Ubuntu is old, the TeX Live is old, too, and this
doesn't work out of the box. GOod that you have managed to fix it.

Best

Norbert

On Mon, 24 Feb 2020, Maria Matveev wrote:
> Dear Norbert,
> 
> thank you very much for your reply.
> 
> Meanwhile I was able to solve my problem, thanks a lot! I could install the
> extarrows.sty directly using tlmgr, although it took a while to set tlmgr
> up, such that it does not throw errors anymore.
> 
> It did not suffice to install xzdec nor xz-utils (which was the next thing I
> did after the error message) but after some more research on stackexchange
> and similar I got it running. I think  I did the following, but I am not
> 100% sure since I did it last Thursday and just checking the terminal
> history...
> 
> I had the error for a long time that
> tlmgr: Remote repository is newer than local (2017 < 2019)
> which I solved via sudo tlmgr option repository
> ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2017/tlnet
> Then I did
> tlmgr update --all --dry-run
> tlmgr update --all
> 
> Then I could install extarrows via
> 
> tlmgr install extarrows
> 
> In fact, I wrote you, since some uninitialized value was used in split, and
> they asked to report. "Please report to texlive at tug.org
> <mailto:texlive at tug.org>.
> Use of uninitialized value $r in split at
> /usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 4157."
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Maria

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