[tex-live] texlive error in ubuntu

[Norbert Preining]

On Mi, 25 Feb 2009, Fengnan GAO wrote:
> Files mentioned in tlpdb but missing (relative to /usr/local/texlive/2008):
>     tlpkg/installer/config.guess

That is bad ... why? Can you update with
	update-tlmgr-latest.sh
?

>   texmf/doc/man/man1/tlmgr.1
>   texmf/doc/man/man1/tlmgr.pdf

harmless, probably only a problem wrt doc files.

>   texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgrgui/tlmgrgui-real.pl

left over that has not been removed, you can remove it.

>   texmf/tex/latex/preview/prauctex.cfg
>   texmf/tex/latex/preview/prauctex.def
>   texmf/tex/latex/preview/prcounters.def
>   texmf/tex/latex/preview/preview.dvi
>   texmf/tex/latex/preview/preview.sty
>   texmf/tex/latex/preview/prfootnotes.def
>   texmf/tex/latex/preview/prlyx.def
>   texmf/tex/latex/preview/prshowbox.def
>   texmf/tex/latex/preview/prshowlabels.def
>   texmf/tex/latex/preview/prtightpage.def
>   texmf/tex/latex/preview/prtracingall.def

That is bad ... I don't see why.

>   tlpkg/README
>   tlpkg/doc/Perl-API.txt
>   tlpkg/doc/Shell-API.txt
>   tlpkg/doc/install08gui.png
>   tlpkg/doc/install08text.pdf
>   tlpkg/doc/install08text.tex
>   tlpkg/doc/installer-layout.txt
>   tlpkg/doc/integrated-pool.tex
>   tlpkg/doc/list-file-format.txt
>   tlpkg/doc/packages.txt
>   tlpkg/doc/specification.txt
>   tlpkg/doc/tlinfra-guit07.pdf
>   tlpkg/doc/tlinfra-guit07.tex
>   tlpkg/doc/tlinst-BT08-abstract.pdf
>   tlpkg/doc/tlinst-BT08-abstract.tex
>   tlpkg/doc/tlinst-BT08.pdf
>   tlpkg/doc/tlinst-BT08.tex
>   tlpkg/doc/vars-docu.txt
>   tlpkg/doc/windemo.bat
>   tlpkg/doc/windemo.pl
>   tlpkg/doc/wingoo-demo.bat
>   tlpkg/doc/wingoo-demo.pl
>   tlpkg/man/TeXLive-TLPDB.1
>   tlpkg/man/TeXLive-TLPOBJ.1
>   tlpkg/man/TeXLive-TLPSRC.1
>   tlpkg/man/TeXLive-TLUtils.1
>   tlpkg/man/tlpsrc2tlpdb.1

Documentation files which maybe had been treated differently at former
points. Nothing to worry about.

> Can someone tell me how to fix this?

In fact no need but the preview.

Best wishes

Norbert

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Debian Developer <preining at debian.org>                         Debian TeX Group
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