It seems that there are some issues with tlmgr update

Guy-Bart Stan stan at stan.yobi.be
Wed Jun 3 19:34:38 CEST 2020


It seems this issue is now resolved.

On 03/06/2020 10:43, Guy-Bart Stan wrote:
> When I run tlmgr update --all, this is what I get:
>
> sudo tlmgr update --all
> tlmgr: package repository 
> http://mirrors.rit.edu/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet (verified)
> =============================================================================== 
>
> tlmgr itself needs to be updated.
> Please do this via either
>   tlmgr update --self
> or by getting the latest updater for Unix-ish systems:
> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh
> and/or Windows systems:
> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.exe
> Then continue with other updates as usual.
> =============================================================================== 
>
> tlmgr: An error has occurred. See above messages. Exiting.
>
>
> Doing sudo tlmgr update --self doesn't update anything though.
>
> sudo tlmgr update --self
>
> tlmgr: package repository 
> http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet 
> (verified)
> tlmgr: saving backups to /usr/local/texlive/2020/tlpkg/backups
> tlmgr: no self-updates for tlmgr available.
>
>
> Am I really supposed to download update-tlmgr-latest.sh from 
> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh?
>
> Shouldn't sudo tlmgr update --self do the necessary self-update?
>


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