Default installed texlive package error

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 04:07:55PM +0300, Саша Саша wrote:
> <div><div>In my distribution (LMDE 4) there is texlive from 2018,
> so I am unable to get
> updates:</div><div><div>user at pc:~/software/install-tl-20200830$
> sudo tlmgr update --all</div><div>(running on Debian, switching to
> user mode!)</div><div> </div><div>tlmgr: Remote repository is
> newer than local (2018 < 2020)</div><div>Cross release updates
> are only supported with</div><div>  update-tlmgr-latest(.sh/.exe)
> --update</div><div>Please see https://tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html
> for details.</div><div> </div><div><div>I tried to uninstall
> packages, but now I am getting this error because of no
> sudo:</div><div>user at pc:~/software/install-tl-20200830$ tlmgr
> update --all</div><div>tlmgr: package repository
> http://mirror.macomnet.net/pub/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet
> (verified)</div><div>You don't have permission to change the
> installation in any way,</div><div>specifically, the directory
> /usr/local/texlive/2020/tlpkg/ is not writable.</div><div>Please
> run this program as administrator, or contact your local
> admin.</div><div>tlmgr: An error has occurred. See above messages.
> Exiting.</div><div> </div><div>And this with
> sudo:</div><div><div>user at pc:~/software/install-tl-20200830$ sudo
> tlmgr update --all</div><div>sudo: tlmgr: command not
> found</div><div> </div><div>How I am supposed to make sudo see
> texlive 2020?</div></div></div></div></div>

You need to uninstall the distribution version of TL and install in
its place upstream TL, see https://tug.org/texlive/

Because some packages depend on TL, you should also check out
https://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html, under 'Integrating vanilla
TeX Live with Debian'. There it is explained how to inform the linux
package manager that TL is really installed.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg