Re: Initializing from a current installation Inbox

I've re-run update-tlmgr-latest.sh as root and now get

# ./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/pretest...
./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/pretest/bin/x86_64-linux ...
./runme.sh: /usr/local/texlive/pretest/bin/x86_64-linux/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/pretest
D:Cannot open package log file for appending:
/usr/local/texlive/pretest/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log
D:Will not log package installation/removal/update for this run
D:Cannot open command log file for appending:
/usr/local/texlive/pretest/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr-commands.log
D:Will not log output of executed commands for this run
D:Setting env var HTTPS_CA_FILE to
/usr/local/texlive/pretest/tlpkg/installer/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt
D:tlmgr:main: ::tldownload_server hash::
{enabled:1,errorcount:0,initcount:1,ua:LWP::UserAgent=HASH(0x5de9fd3e1b40)}
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/pretest/tlpkg/installer/lz4/lz4.x86_64-linux, arg
--version
D: Using shipped
/usr/local/texlive/pretest/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.

But tlmgr update --self   still does nothing.