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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Marcel Fabian Krüger wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">I think you misunderstood tlmgr's message: tlmgr does not try to ask the
user which arguments were passed, it already knows that in the current
invocation, init-usertree has not been used.
But tlmgr on Debian does require that "tlmgr init-usertree" is called at
some point, so it asks if the user did that, if s/he did call
"tlmgr init-usertree" at some undefined point in the past.
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Ah, thank you Marcel — all is now blindingly clear. I wonder, then,
whether the message might usefully be amended to read <br>
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<pre wrap="">TLPDB: Cannot determine type of tlpdb from /home/norbert/texmf!
tlmgr: running in usermode; please call `tlmgr init-usertree' if you have not already done so.</pre>
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<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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