Re: Problem with kpsewhich on a new instal

Hi Max,

I now understand your previous email better... I am a bit slow ...

I continue to read the docs and experimenting to see if I find something
that would work and would require no intervention upon a change.

Paulo Ney



On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 10:15 PM Max Chernoff <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Paulo,
>
> On Mon, 2026-05-18 at 18:55 -0700, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:
> > Gosh! I can't believe that this would be necessary to move a TL-tree
> which
> > should be a very desirable thing to have.
>
> No, there are _definitely_ better/easier ways to move a TL tree (and if
> there isn't, then I agree that there should be). But there is lots of
> other software out there that won't like $HOME changing, so this was
> just a more general suggestion to side step the issue entirely.
>
> I've done this myself on university computer systems so that I can
> fake-install software to /usr/ as an unprivileged user, since I
> personally found adding a single line to my "~/.profile" to be easier
> than trying to configure a bunch of random software to be okay using a
> different prefix.
>
> Thanks,
> -- Max
>