Manual installation incompatible

[Urs Liska]

Am 05.04.22 um 14:50 schrieb Zdenek Wagner:
> Hi,
>
> I am afraid that you mix two things. 
That sounds plausible but I don't think it is the case.
> There is TeX Live from TUG which
> is just for any Linux, it is distro agnostic. On the contrary, some
> Linux distros provide their own TeX Live packages which are than
> installed by the distro package manager. I do not use Linux Mint hence
> i do not know which TeX distro it provides. 
AFAICS the newest one is TL 2019, and this is installed (through the
distro package manager).
> Thus it seems to me that
> you have TeX live 2019 provided by Linux Mint, not from TUG. 
That is correct.
> Now you
> downloaded install-tl from version 2021 
No, I downloaded and started that from 2022.
> and try to install it
> (therefore the local version is reported as 2021) 
This I don't understand because I never installed 2021.
> but it no longer
> exist on the CTAN mirror. You have to downoad install-tl for 2022 in
> order to make it work.

Obviously not. Locally I have the 'apt' installation of 2019, not 2021
as the message suggests.

Thanks for the thoughts anyway
Urs

>
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
>
> po 4. 4. 2022 v 20:57 odesílatel Urs Liska <git at ursliska.de> napsal:
>> I have an issue with \newfloatsetup which on Stackexchange Ulrike Fischer confirmed erroring on TL 2019 (presumably a bug) but not on 2021 anymore.
>>
>> The release of TL 2022 1-2 days ago prompted me to try manually installing the latest version over my TL 2019 provided by my Linux Mint repository.
>>
>> Unfortunately the installation doesn't start but reports
>>
>>
>>
>> install-tl: The TeX Live versions of the local installation
>> and the repository being accessed are not compatible:
>>       local: 2021
>>  repository: 2022
>> Perhaps you need to use a different CTAN mirror?
>>
>> which somewhat leaves me clueless: I have TL 2019 and not 2021 which the message seems to suggest. And I have no idea how that incompatibility could be fixed for installing TL 2022.
>>
>> Any suggestions or info would be gratefully received!
>>
>> Thanks
>> Urs