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Also remember that just adding it to .bashrc often is not enough. I start everything from the CLI, so I have no issues with this. But a user who start their editor using a menu etc will never have had their PATH changed as starting the editor never involved
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So I always advise to add it to .profile as well as it is executed as part of the login and this the PATH change is seen by the editor started from a menu.</div>
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(each year we see a lot of users who have installed TL correctly and added the change to barshrc becaose someone told them to, and they complain that their editor cannot find TL, or finds a sys installed older TL)<br>
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<div style=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">BTW I do the same 'current' symlink trick. easy switch between versions, no cleanup.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0)">/Lars Madsen</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Mere info:
</span><a href="http://au.dk/daleif@imf" tabindex="0"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0)">http://au.dk/daleif@math</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0)">
/ More information: </span><a target="_blank" href="http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf" tabindex="0"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0)">http://au.dk/en/daleif@math</span></a><br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> tex-live <tex-live-bounces+daleif=imf.au.dk@tug.org> on behalf of James Diamond via tex-live <tex-live@tug.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 15 March 2020 16:07<br>
<b>To:</b> tex-live@tug.org <tex-live@tug.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Re: Re: uninstalling an old version</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 04:34 (+0100), Reinhard Kotucha wrote:<br>
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> CAUTION: This email comes from outside Acadia. Verify the sender and use caution with any requests, links or attachments.<br>
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> On 2020-03-14 at 22:30:40 -0400, Bob Tennent wrote:<br>
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>> That's not my scenario. I asked the 2019 tlmgr to uninstall<br>
>> TL-2019. I didn't ask it to remove existing symlinks to<br>
>> TL-2020, much less create new ones.<br>
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> There can only be ***one*** set of symlinks in /usr/local/bin. They<br>
> either point to TL2019 ***or*** to TL2020. If you remove them, none<br>
> of the distributions is accessible. This is expected behavior.<br>
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> As I said before, I vote for removing the "create symlinks" option<br>
> from the installer because it obviously creates more problems than it<br>
> solves. When I asked Karl to keep this option I had unexperienced<br>
> users in mind but now I see that even experienced users run into<br>
> trouble. I recognize now that my suggestion was wrong.<br>
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> Simply follow the instructions the installer prints to screen and<br>
> avoid symlinks. Evereything works as expected then. You can have as<br>
> many TeX Live distributions as you want and each one is accessible if<br>
> you set PATH accordingly.<br>
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Just to throw a little gas on the fire, ...<br>
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I install TL in /usr/local/texlive/YYYY<br>
And I have one symlink<br>
/usr/local/texlive/current<br>
which points to a sub-directory of /usr/local/texlive (today it is 2019).<br>
When I install TL2020 into /usr/local/texlive/2020 I will<br>
handraulically change just this one symlink to point to 2020. Easy peasy.<br>
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My PATH has /usr/local/texlive/current/bin/x86_64-linux and I never<br>
need to change that.<br>
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(In another message it was suggested to collect some paths and add<br>
them to .bashrc. Since I'm here anyway I'll mention that not all<br>
Linux users use bash.)<br>
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Cheers.<br>
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Jim<br>
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