[tex-live] Problem updating using tlmgr

Torsten Andre qa at takb.net
Wed Jun 2 12:38:37 CEST 2010


Victor Ivrii wrote:
>> Thank you very much! That clarifies it! One more question though. Is it
>> possible to have TL2008 and TL2009 run in parallel or is it possible to
>> install 2009 first, try it and then remove 2008? It took me quite some
>> tries until I finally had it completely installed.
> 
> 
> They can coexist nicely. However your path should indicate the version
> you are using at the moment
> 
> F.e. (assuming you are on UNIX) /usr/local/texlive
> 
> drwxr-xr-x 11 texlive math 4096 Mar 14 05:12 2008
> drwxr-xr-x 11 texlive math 4096 May 12 05:52 2009
> drwxr-xr-x 11 texlive math 4096 Jun  2 03:52 2010
> drwxr-xr-x 10 texlive math 4096 Jun  2 03:52 texmf-local
> 
> with texmf-local shared between versions and
> 
> /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-linux/tex
> /usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/x86_64-linux/tex
> /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/x86_64-linux/tex
> 
> invokes TL2010, 2009, 2008 respectively (so you add
> /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-linux/ to you path if you want to
> use by default TL2010)
> 
> (Sure, "x86_64-linux" is replaced by actual architecture of your computer)
> 
> HTH
> 
> Victor
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Thanks again for your help.
>>
>> Torsten
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 

Thank you! That will do.


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