I have just installed texlive 2014 on a machine running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS at work. When I enter tlmgr update --self to the terminal for example, it returns the following:
tlmgr: package repository http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/tex/systems/texlive/tlnet
You don't have permission to change the installation in any way,
specifically, the directory /usr/local/texlive/2014/tlpkg/ is not writable.
Please run this program as administrator, or contact your local admin.
as expected.
When I use sudo, however, the answer is as follows:
sudo: tlmgr: command not found
Interestingly enough though, when I enter sudo su, the command is well known.
Moreover, when I enter sudo -i and then echo $PATH, the output is:
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-linux
As well as the output for echo $PATH when entered without sudo -i:
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-linux
Does anybody have a solution to this?
tlmgrin itsPATH. If the OS should be able to findtlmgrfor root, then usePATH=${PATH}:<installation directory of tlmgr>. (You may have to addexport PATHtoo.) If I had to do this, I'd put thePATH=...statement in the root's login file, which I suspect is.bashrcin the root's home directory.PATHand not at the tail. Usually I make an alias or shell functionsutlmgrthat doessudo /path/to/tlmgrexplicitly.sudo suand thenecho $PATHthe directory is not printed. I added the lineexport PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATHto the/root/.bashrcfile, butsudowill still not find the command.sudo sustill works. If possible, I would like to change the root'sPATHvariable instead of writing an alias or shell function, though...psudo: in.bashrcor a file sourced by it, I use:alias psudo='sudo env PATH="$PATH"' # usage: psudo tlmgr <whatever>. (This assumes your paths are set up normally according to the installation directions.sudo -i tlmgr update --all.