[tex-live] tlmgr 2009 problems on Solaris 10

Karl Berry karl at freefriends.org
Wed Sep 23 00:19:17 CEST 2009


Hi Ettore,

Please run
/export/xtp/texlive/2009/tlpkg/installer/xz/xz.i386-solaris --help
from the command line.  What happens?  Is there some shared library
problem?

However, that hasn't changed "a few days ago", so I'm puzzled.

Thanks,
karl

Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:43:18 -0400
From: Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at mail.math.fsu.edu>
To: tex-live at tug.org
Subject: [tex-live] tlmgr 2009 problems on Solaris 10

It started a few days ago: 

[...]

I tried to run update-tlmgr-latest.sh but I got:

~> /bin/sh update-tlmgr-latest.sh
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing TeX Live Manager
Updater........................................................................................................................................................
./runme.sh: updating in /export/xtp/texlive/2009...
D:Loading /export/xtp/texlive/2009/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb ...
D:Using system wget (tested).
Killed
Killed
sh: xzdec: not found
/export/xtp/texlive/bin/tlmgr: Initialization failed (in
setup_unix_one):
  could not find a usable program for xzdec.
D:Using shipped
/export/xtp/texlive/2009/tlpkg/installer/xz/xz.i386-solaris for xz (not
tested).
Couldn't set up the necessary programs.
Installation of packages is not supported.
Please report to texlive at tug.org.
Continuing anyway ...
./runme.sh: done.


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