[tex-live] Error when trying to use TeX Live's 2015 tlmgr on FreeBSD 9.3

[Conny Andersson]

Hi all,

I am back earlier than expected. But I wanted to solve this problem as
soon as possible. (But from now on, until at least October 12 I 
have to do a lot of practical things not related to computers, so please
be patient if you expect any answer from me.) 

On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 12:34:56 +0900
Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:

> On Sat, 03 Oct 2015, Conny Andersson wrote:
> > add_link_dir_dir: /usr/local/bin/epsffit exists; not making symlink.
> > add_link_dir_dir: /usr/local/bin/extractres exists; not making symlink.
> > add_link_dir_dir: /usr/local/bin/includeres exists; not making symlink.
> > add_link_dir_dir: /usr/local/bin/kpseaccess exists; not making symlink.
> > add_link_dir_dir: /usr/local/bin/kpsereadlink exists; not making symlink.
> > add_link_dir_dir: /usr/local/bin/kpsestat exists; not making symlink.
.... a lot more 

> 
> That is not good. I wpould recommend:
> 	- remove all of them

Well that could be risky to just delete all of them in /usr/local/bin
So, Nikola give me a hint about ports. But which ports? It was the 
tex-synctex, tex-kpathsea and psutils ports that caused the problem. I
could not deinstall them without knowing it was safe i.e.:

===>   Deinstalling tex-kpathsea-6.2.1_1  
Updating database digests format: 100%
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting
etc.

I append the whole operation I just did as ports.txt
 
> 	- again call tlmgr path add

This time the answer to that call was short: 

root at maya [~] # tlmgr path add
add_link_dir_dir: /usr/local/info/dir exists; not making symlink.
tlmgr: action path returned a warning.

And as I see things, it must be OK. More than texlive use that
directory. And it seems OK for texlive 2015:

ataraxi at maya [/usr/local/info] > ls -l | grep texlive
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       56  5 Okt 00:42 asy-faq.info -> /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/doc/info/asy-faq.info
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       58  5 Okt 00:42 asymptote.info -> /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/doc/info/asymptote.info
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       55  5 Okt 00:42 dvipng.info -> /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/doc/info/dvipng.info
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       54  5 Okt 00:42 dvips.info -> /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/doc/info/dvips.info
... and a lot more

All this was done on my i386 laptop (maya), but now I think I know how
to manage the 'tlmgr' problem on my amd64 workstation (alice) sometime
after October 12.

Thank you very much Norbert, Nikola, Zdeněk and all others at
tex-live at tug.org --- THANK YOU VERY MUCH,

Conny

> 
> Norbert
> 
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