[tex-live] Problem in updating texlive-2009

Thu Jul 29 11:47:32 CEST 2010

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>wrote:

> On Do, 29 Jul 2010, S. venkataraman wrote:
> > I have formatted my hard disk and installed texlive 2009, CTAN  DVD
> > version, not the Ubuntu version.  So, I know that updates do exist .
>
> Ok.
>
> > I have tried dante, cambridge and
> > default ctan site without any success.
> > This is the output I get when I run tlmgr --version command.
> > ***********************
> > venkat at venkat-laptop:~$ tlmgr --version
> > tlmgr revision 18011 (2010-04-26 21:41:33 +0200)
> > tlmgr using installation: /opt/texlive/2009
>
> Ok.
>
> > /usr/bin/tlmgr: Could not load packages from
> >   http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
>
> Can you please do the following:
>
> select one mirror by hand, say
>        http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/
>
> then do
>        tlmgr --repository YOUR_MIRROR --no-persistent-downloads update
> --list
> If that does not work, then do the same again, but add
>        -v -v
> and send us the output captured to stdout and stderr:
>        tlmgr ...arguments -v -v ... 2>&1 >tlmgr-debug.log
> and send me that one.
>
> It might be that at your place FTP protocol is blocked, so please
> try an http mirror!!
>
> Thanks.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Norbert Preining            preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
> JAIST, Japan                                 TeX Live & Debian Developer
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>
I did as you asked.
I have enclosed the tlmgr-debug.log.
********************beginning of log*************
DD:action = update
DD:location =>
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/
DD:persistent-downloads => 0
DD:list => 1
D:persistent download are 0
D:Loading /opt/texlive/2009/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb ...
D:Using system wget (tested).
D:Using shipped /opt/texlive/2009/tlpkg/installer/xz/xzdec.i386-linux for
xzdec (tested).
D:Using shipped /opt/texlive/2009/tlpkg/installer/xz/xz.i386-linux for xz
(not tested).
tlmgr: package repository
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/
DD:loc_digest = 678beba7599aee95446ee9668c935379
DD:loc_copy =
/opt/texlive/2009/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.678beba7599aee95446ee9668c935379
D:Loading
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb...
D:TLPDB.pm: trying to initialize from
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
D:trying to download
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xzto
/tmp/texlive.tlpdb.3741.xz
D:downloading
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xzusing
wget --user-agent=texlive/wget --tries=10 --timeout=900 -q -O
D:TLPDB: downloading
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xzdidn't
succeed, try
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
D:downloading
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdbusing
wget --user-agent=texlive/wget --tries=10 --timeout=900 -q -O
***************************End of
tlmgr-debug.log************************************
There was some more output which was not included in the log.
This is as follows:
******************************extra output.
/usr/bin/tlmgr: Could not load packages from

http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb

You may want to try specifying an explicit or different CTAN mirror;
see the information and examples for the -repository option at
http://tug.org/texlive/doc/install-tl.html
(or in the output of install-tl --help).

Cannot load TeX Live database from
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/ at
/usr/bin/tlmgr line 4212.
*****************************
Incidentally, I tried cambridge also.  The following is the output(copied
from gnome terminal.)
******************output from cambridge*******************************
sudo tlmgr --repository
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet--no-persistent-downloads
update --list -v -vDD:action = update
DD:location => http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet
DD:persistent-downloads => 0
DD:list => 1
D:persistent download are 0
D:Loading /opt/texlive/2009/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb ...
D:Using system wget (tested).
D:Using shipped /opt/texlive/2009/tlpkg/installer/xz/xzdec.i386-linux for
xzdec (tested).
D:Using shipped /opt/texlive/2009/tlpkg/installer/xz/xz.i386-linux for xz
(not tested).
tlmgr: package repository
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet
DD:loc_digest = 12f53c2ef43c6e50f4991e039d031f6d
DD:loc_copy =
/opt/texlive/2009/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.12f53c2ef43c6e50f4991e039d031f6d
D:Loading
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb...
D:TLPDB.pm: trying to initialize from
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
D:trying to download
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xzto
/tmp/texlive.tlpdb.3798.xz
D:downloading
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xzusing
wget --user-agent=texlive/wget --tries=10 --timeout=900 -q -O
D:TLPDB: downloading
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xzdidn't
succeed, try
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
D:downloading
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdbusing
wget --user-agent=texlive/wget --tries=10 --timeout=900 -q -O
/usr/bin/tlmgr: Could not load packages from
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb

You may want to try specifying an explicit or different CTAN mirror;
see the information and examples for the -repository option at
http://tug.org/texlive/doc/install-tl.html
(or in the output of install-tl --help).

Cannot load TeX Live database from
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet at /usr/bin/tlmgr
line 4212.
****************end of cambridge output****************************
Thanks a lot for all the responses.
Best,
S. Venkatraman
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