Manual installation incompatible

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 23:18:04 CEST 2022


út 5. 4. 2022 v 18:46 odesílatel Urs Liska <git at ursliska.de> napsal:
>
>
> 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.
>
When you unpacked install-tl-unx.tar.gz, what was the name of the
created directory? What does ./instal-tl --version say?

> Thanks for the thoughts anyway
> Urs
>
> >

Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml


> > 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



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