Re: tlmgr failure

Am Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:24:20 +0100 schrieb Norbert Preining:

> Hi Ulrike,
> 
>> My tlmgr broke ;-( (probably because my hard disk was full). 
> 
> Ouch.
> 
>> At first it couldn't find the infra-structure files. So I ran
>> update-tlmgr-latest.exe. This improved things a bit but now it
>> complains
>> 
>> tlmgr.pl: Fundamental package tlperl.windows not present, uh oh,
>> goodbyeShould not happen, tlperl.windows not found at
>> C:\texlive\2025\texmf-dist\scripts\texlive\tlmgr.pl line 8065.
> 
> Can you send me your texlive.tlpdb?
> Do you have a backup of the texlive.tlpdb?

No I had no backup and as tlmgr reported that tlperl is not
installed I decided it is not worth the time to try to repair it, as
it is unknown what else broke, so I reinstalled. 


Ulrike