[tex-live] tlmgr "Update all installed" via commandline?

[Lars Madsen]

On 2012-08-28 20:24, Rainer M Krug wrote:
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> On 28/08/12 17:02, Norbert Preining wrote:
>> On Di, 28 Aug 2012, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>>>> tlmgr update all
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>> In addition to th two answers you already got, why didn't you try tlgr --help or tlmgr help and
>> read down a few lines to the EXAMPLES section?
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> Well - if I do tlmgr --help (and believe me - I tried it), I get:
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/env perl
> # $Id: tlmgr.pl 27413 2012-08-15 22:26:59Z karl $
> #
> # Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Norbert Preining
> # This file is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2
> # or any later version.
>
> my $svnrev = '$Revision: 27413 $';
> my $datrev = '$Date: 2012-08-16 00:26:59 +0200 (Thu, 16 Aug 2012) $';
> my $tlmgrrevision;
> my $prg;
> if ($svnrev =~ m/: ([0-9]+) /) {
>    $tlmgrrevision = $1;
> } else {
>    $tlmgrrevision = "unknown";
> }
> ...
>
> in other words, the tlmgr script.
>
> I should have filed a bug report, but tlmgr worked.
>
>> tlmgr --version
> tlmgr revision 27413 (2012-08-16 00:26:59 +0200)
> tlmgr using installation: /home/rkrug/texlive/2012
> TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2012
>


this usually happen if you haven't installed perldoc

which is not installed by default on ubuntu, just do a

sudo apt-get install perldoc

and try again

/daleif