I had previously worked with the texlive distribution provided in the Debian repository, but I came across many inconveniences as a result of it being outdated (no tlmgr; forced to manually update and install packages, etc.) So I decided to remove the package and reinstall texlive using the installer provided by the CTAN website.
After waiting several hours for it install all the packages, latex
does not seem to recognize any of the new packages that should have come with the 2011 texlive distribution (e.g. adforn
). Furthermore, tlmgr
did not show up as a recognized command. So I try
cd /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux/
sudo ./tlmgr --self --update all
But the operation fails, with the following output.
tlmgr: package repository http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet
Fundamental package texlive.infra not present, uh oh, goodbyeSerious error, texlive.infra not found at ./tlmgr line 4949.
I have not been able to find much useful information online regarding the error message. Do you have any ideas as to how I can fix tlmgr
and get latex
to recognize the newly-installed packages?
Thanks for the help!
root
at the moment. If you want to keep it that way, then you can runtlmgr
by following http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-998739.html. If you want to change the ownership, then you can usesudo chown -R <yourusername> /usr/local/texlive/2011
. Of course, you also need to make sure that you update thePATH
usingPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH
unstable
.