[tex-live] tlmgr menu

[George N. White III]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just read in the documentation that tlmgr was supposed to have a menu bar.
> Mine doesn't :(
>
> The lack of a menu bar could be related to this message during startup:
>
> [taco at ntg images]$ ~/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-linux/tlmgr --gui
> Loading local TeX Live Database
> This may take some time, please wait!
> Use of uninitialized value $i in numeric le (<=) at
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Tk/Menu.pm line
> 1041.
> Completed.
>
> Is my perl/Tk too old? (too new?)
>
>  perl-base-5.10.0-25.1mdv2009.0
>  perl-Tk-804.028-9mdv2009.0

Buggy -- see: <https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=40359>, but marked
as fixed.  The bug report used /usr/bin/widget:

forcing perl with this directory launches the script, with some warnings:
$ perl -I/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Tk/demos/widget_lib
/usr/bin/widget
Use of uninitialized value $i in numeric le (<=) at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Tk/Menu.pm
line 1041.

> This is bad-ish, because I wanted to look at that Options tab that was
> promised :-/

It seems to be an issue for the linux vendor.   If the "widget"
example fails then
tlmgr hasn't a hope of working.

>
>
> Best wishes,
> Taco
>



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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
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