Manual installation incompatible

[Urs Liska]

Am 05.04.22 um 23:18 schrieb Zdenek Wagner:
> 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? 
install-tl-20220322
> What does ./instal-tl --version say?
install-tl (TeX Live Cross Platform Installer) revision 62146
TeX Live (https://tug.org/texlive) version *2021*, although I downloaded
it from tug.org after 2022 was released. ??
>
>> 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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