[tex-live] Error using tlmgr

[Zdenek Wagner]

2018-01-07 19:48 GMT+01:00 Philip Taylor (RHUoL) <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:

> Zdeněk Wagner wrote:
>
>> This should be a question for Linux maintainers. All Linux distributions
>> provide its xzdec. CentOS and Fedora install it as default, Raspbian
>> requires manual installation of the .deb package, it is probably the same
>> in Debian. IMHO it is not a wise idea to duplicate a part of a system
>> distribution just because a user has not installed it. And tlmgr cannot
>> install it automatically because the name of the package is distro
>> dependent and the name of the packager differs as well (dnf, yum, apt-get,
>> ...). In addition, TeX Live (from TUG, not from the packaging systems)
>> should preferably be installed by an ordinary user while the package
>> containing xzdec must be installed by root or using sudo.
>>
> Well, I am confused, Zdeněk.  What are all these instances of "xzdec"
> which accompanied the pre-test ?
>

I do not know. My TeX Live contains such files in installer/xz but "which
xzdec" finds that file in a system directory (TeX Live binaries are
prefered, they are higher in PATH).

** Phil.
> --------
> Directory of D:\TeX\Live\2017\tlpretest\tlpkg\installer\xz
>
> 17/04/2017  23:32            72,784 xzdec.amd64-freebsd
> 15/04/2017  13:58            73,008 xzdec.amd64-netbsd
> 26/04/2017  16:42            62,012 xzdec.armel-linux
> 25/11/2016  18:34            64,444 xzdec.armhf-linux
> 13/04/2017  21:24           111,104 xzdec.exe
> 15/04/2017  20:32            83,470 xzdec.i386-cygwin.exe
> 16/04/2017  22:49           100,536 xzdec.i386-darwin
> 17/04/2017  23:32            69,884 xzdec.i386-freebsd
> 13/04/2017  20:40            71,064 xzdec.i386-linux
> 15/04/2017  13:58            75,968 xzdec.i386-netbsd
> 19/04/2017  15:29            71,260 xzdec.i386-solaris
> 16/04/2017  22:49           127,900 xzdec.powerpc-darwin
> 29/04/2017  21:57            69,732 xzdec.powerpc-linux
> 19/04/2017  15:29            74,188 xzdec.sparc-solaris
> 15/04/2017  20:32            74,752 xzdec.x86_64-cygwin.exe
> 15/04/2017  23:15            76,276 xzdec.x86_64-darwin
> 16/04/2017  22:49            80,128 xzdec.x86_64-darwinlegacy
> 15/04/2017  01:00            72,472 xzdec.x86_64-linux
> 19/04/2017  15:29            76,568 xzdec.x86_64-solaris
>
>
>
> Zdeněk Wagner
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> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>
>
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