2

Using the instructions from How to install vanilla texlive on debian or ubuntu I upgraded from texlive 2014 to texlive 2016 on my second laptop. I did this because I am using some more recent packages and I don't think they will work with texlive 2014.

Now I do not seem to have the ability to add anything to my tex tree, which in my case is located at:

/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist*

So after adding to my tex tree, I did sudo texhash

kpsewhich picks up the 2016 packages fine, but I do not seem to be able to add anything.

I also tried adding a directory ~/texmf putting the files in there and then doing texhash ~/texmf and still no joy.

sudo texhash produced:

texhash: Updating /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R... 
texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST... 
texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN... 
texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...

Does anybody know what can be done to fix the situation? I would be mightily obliged to any kind person who might help me figure out a solution. Thanks.

Adding:

alias sudo='sudo env PATH=$PATH'

and then running mktexlsr as suggested in About texhash and proper installation of TeXlive had no effect (I logged out and logged in again)

Community
  • 1
A Feldman
  • 3,930
  • 3
    There appears to be an answer in http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/48292/about-texhash-and-proper-installation-of-texlive to this question. – JPi Jul 16 '16 at 02:44
  • @JPi Sigh...did not work. I had high hopes. – A Feldman Jul 16 '16 at 02:59
  • The second answer to the linked question is likely most pertinent. You do not need to run texhash on your personal tree (~/texmf). You should never manually add to /usr/local/texlive/2016. However, the main problem here is that you also have a distro-installed version of TL installed and you need to remove it. – cfr Jul 16 '16 at 03:00
  • That is, you did not follow the instructions sufficiently thoroughly. You need to remove all traces of texlive packages installed by your Linux distro's package manager and install a 'dummy' package to keep it happy. – cfr Jul 16 '16 at 03:02
  • @cfr Thank you for your comment. I don't know how to add files to my tree but manually at this point. I guess there must be a tlmgr way of doing it? I don't think that my 2014 installation is distro-installed as ubuntu is still stuck at 2012 at this point. Should I remove the entire 2014 tex tree? I was thinking that there was a missing step or 2 to upgrading. – A Feldman Jul 16 '16 at 03:05
  • You are definitely using a distro-installed version unless you have manually altered the configuration of upstream's TeX Live to use similar paths. TL does not use the paths listed in your question by default. It is not a question of manual or not. It is a question of which tree. You shouldn't install manually (i.e. yourself) into the main texmf tree. You should use your personal or local tree. But all of this is irrelevant given that you are using Ubuntu's packaged binaries. – cfr Jul 16 '16 at 03:10
  • I guess I'll just nuke both texlive installations and try it again. – A Feldman Jul 16 '16 at 03:10
  • Nuking stuff under /usr/local/texlive will have no effect whatsoever. – cfr Jul 16 '16 at 03:11
  • Thanks @cfr it turns out I have ubuntu's texlive 2013 was installed alongside of my 2014 installation and my 2016 installation. And sudo apt-get remove texlive removed the 2013 version. Now it works. If you care to put it up as the answer I'll pick it. And thanks for being patient. Seems no dummy package was needed. – A Feldman Jul 16 '16 at 03:19
  • 2
    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it was solved by OP himself (see comments). – Stefan Pinnow Jul 16 '16 at 05:58
  • You need a dummy package to stop your package manager reinstalling it if you decide to install something with texlive as a dependency. It is not at all wise to skip this step. – cfr Jul 16 '16 at 21:29
  • Like gummi which I had to remove alongside of texlive 2013. Ok. Thanks. – A Feldman Jul 16 '16 at 23:10

0 Answers0