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Note: this is all because I wanted to use tlmgr to install subfiles.sty. It's likely there's an easier way of dealing with this problem, but I might as well try getting tlmgr to work.

I seem to be getting the same error as this question, where the issue ended up being mismatched texlive and tlmgr versions.

Issue: When I run tlmgr update --all, I get the following output:

(running on Debian, switching to user mode!) Unknown directive ...containerchecksum c59200574a316416a23695c258edf3a32531fbda43ccdc09360ee105c3f07f9fb77df17c4ba4c2ea4f3a5ea6667e064b51e3d8c2fe6c984ba3e71b4e32716955... , please fix it! at /usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm line 210, line 5579.

The installation log is here. It appears that there aren't any errors, though there are quite a number of warnings. The majority of the warnings seem to be of the form:

warning: is already defined (\relax it first)

My installation is from install-tl (I think this is upstream?).

I've tried downloading and running update-tlmgr-latest.sh, as I read this can be helpful. This gives the output:

Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing TeX Live Manager Updater............................................................................................................................................................................ ./runme.sh: Cannot find TeX Live root using kpsewhich --var-value=SELFAUTOPARENT. ./runme.sh: Please set your PATH as needed, otherwise it's hopeless.

This is confusing, as running kpsewhich --var-value=SELFAUTOPARENT by itself outputs /usr/local/texlive/2016, so it appears the PATH is set.

It appears that texlive itself is working fine - I can compile documents, and running latex small2e seems to output reasonable files. To reiterate, this is a new texlive 2016 install. I initially installed off of synaptic, but when I realized that's likely out of date I deleted it, and installed via install-tl.

UPDATE As (for unrelated reasons) I reinstalled my OS the day prior, I decided to reinstall my OS to fix this.

Bobyandbob
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  • what does which tlmgr say, it looks like you are picking up an old one as it is using /usr/share/texlive/tlpkg ie your system tex not the one in /usr/local/texlive/2016 and the error message you show is expected from an old tlmgr from 2015 or earlier that doesn't have the checksum support used by the texlive 2016 repositories. – David Carlisle Dec 20 '16 at 23:59
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    which tlmgr says /usr/local/texlive/2016/bin/x86_64-linux/tlmgr – Mark Schultz-Wu Dec 20 '16 at 23:59
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    hmm sorry then I give up (probably someone with more recent debian experience will be around better than my guesses:-) – David Carlisle Dec 21 '16 at 00:02
  • The version of tlmgr you are running is definitely NOT from upstream. When you ran the update command, did you use sudo or switch to root or what? I guess when you ran which and kpsewhich, you ran them as your ordinary user, correct? – cfr Dec 21 '16 at 00:51
  • I used sudo instead of switching to root, and ran which and kpsewhich as an ordinary user. Should I remove the install I made as a user and redownload it as root? – Mark Schultz-Wu Dec 21 '16 at 00:52
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    When you deleted Debian's TL, did you make sure everything was gone? Did you then install a dummy package to satisfy apt or whatever? – cfr Dec 21 '16 at 00:52
  • I didn't make sure everything was gone, but I deleted it through synaptic and used the "completely delete" option. I'm not totally sure entirely what that entails. – Mark Schultz-Wu Dec 21 '16 at 00:53
  • So when you ran install-tl, did you use sudo? You must have done something like that for it to be in /usr/local. You don't need to undo that /usr/local install. You just need to eliminate the old one and install a suitable dummy. – cfr Dec 21 '16 at 00:54
  • What does sudo which tlmgr give? – cfr Dec 21 '16 at 00:55
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    sudo which tlmgr gives /usr/bin/tlmgr – Mark Schultz-Wu Dec 21 '16 at 00:55
  • Indeed, you have a stale Debian TL installation which is competing with your new one. This will cause endless confusion if left to fester. – cfr Dec 21 '16 at 00:56
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    How would I remove the Debian TL distribution? – Mark Schultz-Wu Dec 21 '16 at 00:58
  • Read http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1092/how-to-install-vanilla-texlive-on-debian-or-ubuntu?s=2|0.0000 before you try anything else. It explains what you need to do. – cfr Dec 21 '16 at 00:58
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    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because a reinstallation solves the problem. – Bobyandbob Dec 22 '17 at 20:49

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