tl24 pretest: bug report

[Ven. Pandita (Burma)]

Actually, the whole texlive installation is in my home folder, so I have
never used sudo in installing texlive or in using it. All files belong to
the present use, i.e., myself.

Ven. Pandita (Burma)

On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 at 19:49, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> What is the ownership of the actual files and ls-R files? I saw that
> you use tlmgr via sudo which is not recommended. /usr/local/texlive
> should be owned by you as a normal user and installation and updates
> should be run by you without sudo. Once you run any action which
> includes mktexlsr as root or via sudo, ld-R files will be owned by
> root:root and only readable by world. If you then try to run mktexlsr
> as you, the ls-R files will not be updated. If this is the case, just
> change the ownersip of the files and rerun mktexlsr as you.
>
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