Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Installing a font

[bertibott]

Okay... progress!
I installed xzdec.
After that I ran

sudo tlmgr init-usertree

and got:

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(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
tlmgr: user mode database already set up in
tlmgr:   /home/bertibott/texmf/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
tlmgr: not overwriting it.

After that I ran

sudo tlmgr install aurical

And got this:

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(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)                                                                              
tlmgr: Remote repository is newer than local (2017 < 2018)                                                                
Cross release updates are only supported with                                                                             
  update-tlmgr-latest(.sh/.exe) --update                                                                                  
Please see https://tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html for details.

So... I understand that something is outdated... Is it the version of tlmgr? Or the repository holding the aurical package?
And how do I update it?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It seems that you don't use TeX Live 2018 but the 2017 version. Online updates/installations are only possible with the current version, that's 2018. Verify that it's 2018 or install 2018. Perhaps it could work anyway if you run

sh update-tlmgr-latest.sh -- --upgrade

at the directory where that .sh script is, probably in /usr/local/texlive/2017. Or

sh /usr/local/texlive/2017/update-tlmgr-latest.sh -- --upgrade

or

sh /usr/local/texlive/2018/update-tlmgr-latest.sh -- --upgrade

Stefan

[bertibott]

this all confuses me greatly...
I can't really seem to get anywhere... how do I figure out what latex versions are installed? and which one is being used?

Or how do I get rid of all of them so I can make a clean start? I realize this is more of a linux question and less a latex specific one...

[thomasb]

It seems that you don't use TeX Live 2018 but the 2017 version. Online updates/installations are only possible with the current version, that's 2018. Verify that it's 2018 or install 2018. Perhaps it could work anyway if you run

sh update-tlmgr-latest.sh -- --upgrade

at the directory where that .sh script is, probably in /usr/local/texlive/2017. Or

sh /usr/local/texlive/2017/update-tlmgr-latest.sh -- --upgrade

or

sh /usr/local/texlive/2018/update-tlmgr-latest.sh -- --upgrade

Stefan

On my computer, the texlive directory is at

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/usr/share/texlive

but no 2017 directory here...

The command find / -type d -name 'texlive' answers :

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/usr/share/bug/texlive
/usr/share/doc/texlive
/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/texlive
/usr/share/texlive
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive
/var/lib/tex-common/fontmap-cfg/texlive
/var/lib/tex-common/hyphen-cnf/texlive
/var/lib/tex-common/fmtutil-cnf/texlive

Where should we run update-tlmgr-latest.sh ? Even downloaded from the Internet (link update-tlmgr-latest.sh in this page), it answers :

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Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing TeX Live Manager Updater  100%  
./runme.sh: Cannot find TeX Live root using kpsewhich --var-value=SELFAUTOPARENT.
./runme.sh: (no tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb and/or tlpkg/tlpobj/.)
./runme.sh: Please set your PATH as needed, otherwise it's hopeless.

and kpsewhich --var-value=SELFAUTOPARENT answers the root :

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