<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Norbert,</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 11:00 AM Norbert Preining <<a href="mailto:preining@logic.at">preining@logic.at</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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FIrst of all, this is a *NO*GO*!!!<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>thank you for writing back, but I think I've maybe been unclear about my situation. Let me reiterate what is happening:</div><div><br></div><div>1) I have used gentoo's package manager to install gentoo's texlive packages onto the system. I use gentoo's package manager to update those packages.</div><div>2) I installed a TUG install of TL into my user subdirectory, which was /[$HOME]/tex-local/texlive/2017/ (despite that I keep updating it). This is a separate install, and I use this tlmgr to update this install *only*. I am uncertain why, but this local install uses root permissions, but only updates its local subdirectory and packages. Nothing from the TUG install touches system directories or paths. </div><div>3) gentoo hasn't updated its texlive packages since 2017, but has now released new distribution packages. I am trying to install *these only* using gentoo's installer. They are failing with the below error.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> ---------------------<br>
> * Building format texmf-dist/fmtutil/format.texlive-basic.cnf<br>
> Can't locate <a href="http://mktexlsr.pl" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">mktexlsr.pl</a> in @INC (@INC contains: //tlpkg<br>
> //texmf-dist/scripts/texlive /etc/perl<br>
> /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.30.0/x86_64-linux /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.30.0<br>
> /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.30.0/x86_64-linux<br>
> /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.30.0 /usr/local/lib64/perl5<br>
> /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.4 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl<br>
> /usr/lib64/perl5/5.30.0/x86_64-linux /usr/lib64/perl5/5.30.0) at<br>
> /usr/bin/fmtutil line 23.<br>
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/fmtutil line 25.<br>
> * ERROR: dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2019-r1::gentoo failed (compile phase):<br>
> ------------------------<br>
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That is a Gentoo bug. They have not patched <a href="http://tlmgr.pl" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">tlmgr.pl</a> so that it finds<br>
the correct modules.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>gentoo's devs keep telling me that this is an error with my own kpathsea setup, and not with the packages. Further, they tell me to add the TUG TL path (ie, in my user directory) to the $PATH to get it to work. Is this advice wrong?</div><div><br></div><div>In short: I want to manage my user-directory TUG TL using its own tlmgr, but use the system packages to update the system TL, and not have them conflict, or interact in any way. How do I do this?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>A </div></div></div>