On Wed, 06 Mar 2019, Bob Tennent wrote: > rm -rf /usr/share/texlive/20xx If you haven't used "tlmgr path", ie there are no links from outside, this is definitely fine. Norbert -- PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13