Re: Problem with kpsewhich on a new instal

I have a feeling that the "portable" option wil do the trick. That
experimentation
will talke me till tomorrow though ...

Paulo Ney

On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 10:37 PM Paulo Ney de Souza <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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
>>
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