Re: Initializing from a current installation

Here is the output from update-tlmgr-latest.sh:

Verifying archive integrity...  100%   MD5 checksums are OK. All good.
Uncompressing TeX Live Manager Updater  100%
./runme.sh: updating in /usr/local/texlive/2025...
./runme.sh: tlmgr version says this is TeX Live 2026,
./runme.sh: and this updater script created: Sat Feb  7 17:15:48 CET 2026.
./runme.sh: proceeding with tlmgr update.
./runme.sh: updating /usr/local/texlive/2025/bin/x86_64-linux ...
./runme.sh: /usr/local/bin/tlmgr including objects:
master/tlpkg/tlpobj/texlive.infra.tlpobj
master/tlpkg/tlpobj/texlive.infra.x86_64-linux.tlpobj
D:tlmgr version 77655 (2026-02-07 16:38:21 +0100)
D:maintree=/usr/local/texlive/2025
D:appending to package log file:
/usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log
D:appending to command log file:
/usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr-commands.log
D:Setting env var HTTPS_CA_FILE to
/usr/local/texlive/2025/tlpkg/installer/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt
D:tlmgr:main: ::tldownload_server hash::
{enabled:1,errorcount:0,initcount:1,ua:LWP::UserAgent=HASH(0x60afe1ccdd98)}
D:setup_programs: preferring system versions
D:program df found in path
D:program curl found in path
D:program wget found in path
D:TLUtils::setup_programs: checking for ssl enabled wget
D:TLUtils::setup_programs: wget has ssl, final wget args:
--no-check-certificate --user-agent=texlive/wget --tries=4 --timeout=30 -q
-O
D:program lz4 not usable from path
D:(unix) trying to set up lz4, default
/usr/local/texlive/2025/tlpkg/installer/lz4/lz4.x86_64-linux, arg --version
D: Using shipped
/usr/local/texlive/2025/tlpkg/installer/lz4/lz4.x86_64-linux for lz4
(tested).
D:program gzip found in path
D:program xz found in path
./runme.sh: done.


On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 10:43 AM Bob Tennent <[email protected]> wrote:

> Following the steps from this.  tlmgr option repo says
>
> Default package repository (repository):
> ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tlpretest/
>
> echo $PATH says
>
> /usr/local/texlive/pretest/bin/x86_64-linux:...
>
> but sudo tlmgr update --self  does nothing.   What am I doing wrong?
>
> Bob T.
>