Re: Initializing from a current installation

Reinhard Kotucha via tex-live <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.live
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-02-10 at 11:08:39 -0500, Bob Tennent wrote:

 > 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%

Dear Bob,
please look at these lines:

 > ./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
 > [...]
 
It seems that it looks for files in /usr/local/texlive/2025/.

Which tlmgr are you using?

  sudo which tlmgr

BTW I wouldn't use sudo for stuff I maintain myself.  You can "steal"
the files

  sudo chown -R bob:users /usr/local

and continue as a normal user.  

Regards,
  Reinhard

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