[tex-live] tlmgr error, need help

[George N. White III]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:

>    tlmgr: installation location http://mirror.hmc.edu/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008
>    Can't locate object method "expand_dependencies" via package
>    "TeXLive::TLPDB" at /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 1037, <RETFH> line 116053.
>
> It seems you have a newer version of tlmgr, but an older version of the
> tlpkg/TeXLive/*.pm files.  I can't say how it came about.
>
> You could try this:
> tlmgr update bin-texlive texlive.infra
>
> But probably you will get the same error.  In which case my suggestion
> is to go to
> ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlnet/2008/install-tl/tlpkg/TeXLive/
> and explicitly download the *.pm files and manually put them into
> tlpkg/tlpkg/TeXLive.
>
> After that, the tlmgr update command will hopefully run ok, to get
> things back in a reasonable state.
>
> Sorry.  Maybe someone else has a better idea.

Karl's advice is sound.  I encountered the same problem a few days ago
after updating from a local svn/Master mirror.  The suggested fix
worked for me then.

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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia