Re: Initializing from a current installation

On Feb 10, Alois Steindl wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> Just a wild guess: the environment (including $PATH) will likely be
> different when using sudo.

for default sudo settings that's correct, PATH will be reset (nor for my setup, but I know insecure that is;)

I always suggest not using "sudo command" in most cases, but

  sudo -s
  command
  more commands

then you can do a correct check of $PATH,
"type -a tlmgr" will tell the truth ("which" very often is a script or binary which gives wrong output releated to shell path hash issues!)

and better use absolute paths wheni doubt, esp. with sudo (but still other environment vars might be reset and wrong!)

I just got those updates (from last night's pretest install run):

[Tue Feb 10 18:27:48 2026] update: luamplib (77682 -> 77696)
[Tue Feb 10 18:27:50 2026] update: modernruler (77481 -> 77699)
[Tue Feb 10 18:27:52 2026] update: neoschool (77050 -> 77698)
[Tue Feb 10 18:27:54 2026] update: rpgicons (77525 -> 77697)
[Tue Feb 10 18:28:03 2026] update: tex4ht (77682 -> 77694)
[Tue Feb 10 18:28:05 2026] update: texlive-scripts (77685 -> 77711)
[Tue Feb 10 18:28:05 2026] command: mktexlsr
[Tue Feb 10 18:28:07 2026] command: updmap-sys



Harald
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