tlmgr cannot install luatexja-fontspec

[Norbert Preining]

Hi,

> As the above suggests, I had root do the ñinstall, although the 
> TeX system that I had working before ñwas installed by user.

You could do the same as user, only create /usr/local/texlive as root
and than chown it to your user.

> In ~.profile I have
> 
>   MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-dist/doc/man
>   INFOPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-dist/doc/info
>   PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2025/bin/x86_64-linux

Many bugs here:
*) it is probably ~/.profile, right? and is that your **USER** home
   directory, that is /home/<YOURUSERNAME>/.profile
*) PATH is set to *ONLY* that one directory, that doesn't work
*) your shell is probably bash, so .profile will most probably not
   be read.
   Do you have .bash_profile?

I would suggest doing the following *AS ROOT*: create
	/etc/profile.d/texlive-local.sh
with the following content:
	PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2025/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH
	export PATH
That should set the path for both you and root.

> The LaTeX problem is frustrating because it keeps me from work. I'm 

The problem is not TeX Live, the problem is that you don't know how to
configure PATH environment variable for all users or a specific user
for your specific shell.

This is nothing we can change/improve.

Best regards

Norbert

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