> does this help? > > http://www.tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html > > sound like you need to tell tlmgr to use the internet for updates not > the DVD > > Actually I doubt that. Before the update my *tlmgr --help* works well. And even now *tlmgr --help* doesn't work, the command *tlmgr update -all* still works fine. THanks. Fengnan Gao <fnsteeed at hotmail.com>