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I have installed TeX Live 2019 on Unix (macOS 10.14). Now there are some packages, which I forgot to install. For example, I'd like to have otfinfo (the binary). How can I find out, which package I need to install with tlmgr?

tlmgr search otfinfo

gives no result.

topskip
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  • I think you need the global switch tlmgr search --global otfinfo (I can't test as I have everything installed). – Ulrike Fischer Jul 09 '19 at 09:16
  • @UlrikeFischer thanks, that works. tlmgr is so opaque to me. You can turn this into an answer, if you want :-) – topskip Jul 09 '19 at 09:40

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You need the global switch:

 tlmgr search --global otfinfo

Without the option, tlmgr searches "the names, short descriptions, and long descriptions of all locally installed packages". With the --global switch it searches the database.

You can also add the --all switch to get more hits (filenames). See https://tug.org/texlive/doc/tlmgr.html#search for all options.

Ulrike Fischer
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