[tex-live] Problem with update

[Staszek Wawrykiewicz]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, SUN Wenchang wrote:

> I downloaded an iso file of TexLive 2008. I copied the contents to a SD card
> and then I installed TL2008 on the hard disk.
>  
> Now, I try to ues tlmgr to update packages. It seems does not work.
>  
> >C:\Users\user1>tlmgr update -all>Cannot load TeX Live database from
> >G:/TL2008 at d:/texlive-2008/2008/texmf/s>cripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl line
> >600, <TMP> line 91158.
>  Is it possible for tlmgr to search for some CTAN mirrors but not the
> disk from which tl2008 was installed?

Please try:
tlmgr -location http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008 update -all

tlmgr -help will show you all options

Best,

-- 
Staszek Wawrykiewicz
StaW at gust.org.pl