> tlmgr option location /home/ftp/texlive/tlnet/2008 As Norbert says, I mistyped it. Should have been tlmgr option location http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008 This morning I wrote some instructions at http://tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html (pointed to from acquire.html and bugs.html) about how to upgrade tlmgr. karl