[tex-live] Error when trying to use TeX Live's 2015 tlmgr on FreeBSD 9.3

[Conny Andersson]

Hi Zdenek, 

Yes your ad hoc, workaround works - nice and easy:

root at maya [/home/ataraxi] # perl /usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/i386-freebsd/tlmgr update --all
tlmgr: package repository http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet
tlmgr: saving backups to /usr/local/texlive/2015/tlpkg/backups
[ 1/36, ??:??/??:??] update: babel-welsh [115k] (30299 -> 38372) ... done
 and so on ...

Thank you very much Zdenek!

Best Regards,

Conny

On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 22:47:26 +0200
Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I think I have found a bug in tlmgr.pl. In the BEGIN block $MAster is based
> upon __FILE__ (line 59 and below). If the user has not created symlinks, it
> is $TEXLIVE/2015/bin$ARCH/tlmgr and the two paths unshifted to @INC are
> relative to it. However, if a symlink is created, __FILE__ is
> /usr/local/bin/tlmgr and the paths unshifted are
> /usr/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive and /usr/tlpkg as can be seen in the
> oroginal message. This means that it is necessary to resolve the symlinks
> and then make the paths relative to texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
> 
> As a temporary solution it is possible to call tlmgr by specifying the full
> path in /usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/$ARCH, it works.
> 
> 
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
> 
> 2015-09-30 22:35 GMT+02:00 Conny Andersson <tugmember at diaforum.se>:
> 
> > Sorry I forgot to CC to tex-live at tug.org
> >
> > To: Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>
> >
> > Hi Norbert and thanks for your answer,
> >
> > On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 22:08:46 +0900
> > Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Conny,
> > >
> > > On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Conny Andersson wrote:
> > > > Can't locate TeXLive/TLConfig.pm in @INC (you may need to install the
> > > > TeXLive::TLConfig module) (@INC contains:
> > /usr/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive
> > >
> > > Is
> > >       /usr/local/bin/tlmgr
> > > a *link* to
> > >       /usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/$arch/tlmgr
> > > ?
> >
> > Yes it is, but that 'tlmgr' in turn is a symlink to tlmgr.pl:
> >
> > ls -l /usr/local/bin/tlmgr
> > lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  46 13 Sep 03:46 /usr/local/bin/tlmgr
> > -> /usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/i386-freebsd/tlmgr
> >
> > ls -l ../texlive/2015/bin/i386-freebsd/tlmgr
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  41 14 Aug  2014
> > ../texlive/2015/bin/i386-freebsd/tlmgr
> >  -> ../../texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
> >
> > (This is from my i386 labtop, but it also apply to my amd64
> > workstation, both computers complain about line 92 in tlmgr.)
> >
> > >
> > > My guess is that
> > >       /usr/local/bin/tlmgr
> > > is a link to
> > >       /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
> > > which does *NOT* work.
> >
> > No, not directly, but indirectly as shown above.
> >
> > >
> > > How did you set up the links? Did you use tlmgr to do that, or did
> > > you use something else?
> >
> > No not tlmgr. For the laptop on which I now write this answer, I
> > used install-tl-20150911 (folder to do an Internet install) and then the
> > perl script install-tl. In the following CLI dialog I choose its O
> > and then the L option to get:
> >
> > create symlinks in standard directories:  [X]
> >             binaries to: /usr/local/bin
> >             manpages to: /usr/local/man
> >                 info to: /usr/local/info
> >
> > The same CLI installation procedure was alsö done on my workstation,
> > but there I only used the TeX Collection 2015 DVD to install via its
> > install-tl. All I did was to install Tex Live 2015 the same way as I
> > used for the last six years without any later problem with tlmgr.
> >
> >
> > Thanks Norbert,
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Conny
> >
> > >
> > > Norbert
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > PREINING, Norbert                               http://www.preining.info
> > > JAIST, Japan                                 TeX Live & Debian Developer
> > > GPG: 0x860CDC13   fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0  ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> >   Conny Andersson
> > <tugmember at diaforum.se>
> >
> > http://www.diaforum.se/
> > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=