Here's the problem: As i was writing an essay on my computer using latex i noticed that the editor was giving me an error for the packages tikz and cancel( i'm using kile')
error: the file [tikz or cancel].sty was not found.
I installed the version from the website https://tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html.There's a clickable link that downloads a tar.gz file. I imagined that the freaking version on this installer was the 2020 version but aparently it's not. SO i though "no bigie, just install the packages manually using tlmgr"...
So i open the terminal, type tlmgr install tikz and:
tlmgr install tikz
(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
/usr/bin/tlmgr: unexpected return value from verify_checksum: -5
I've tried updating my version of TeX but when I run the script that is provided in the https://tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html
sh update-tlmgr-latest.sh
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing TeX Live Manager Updater 100%
./runme.sh: Cannot find TeX Live root using kpsewhich --var-value=SELFAUTOPARENT.
./runme.sh: (no tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb and/or tlpkg/tlpobj/.)
./runme.sh: Please set your PATH as needed, otherwise it's hopeless.
The first two errors idk what they mean but the last one says tha my PATH env variable is not defined correctly, but
echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:
/snap/bin:/usr/local/texlive/2020/bin/x86_64-linux:/usr/share/texlive/2020/bin/x86_64-linux:
says otherwise.
and i cannot install any package because my version of tex is too old
So.. i'm stuck.. help?
/usr/local/texlive/2020/bin/x86_64-linux:in your path which suggests you have installed texlive from tug? but you have it too late after /usr/bin so it is not being used, you are using the debian system texlive. you can update the system texlive by apt or whichever package manager you use at the linux level, or if you hav einstalled a vanilla texlive put it at the front of your path.