tlshell failure on x86_64-linux

[Robert Alessi]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 04:21:06PM +0100, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
> > > Is the installation root writable by a regular user?
> > 
> > No, it is owned by root, but tlshell launched by a regular user used
> > to work on texlive 2019 under the same conditions,, except that I got
> > a message telling that the installation root was not writable by that
> > user.
> 
> That message was probably by the Perl backend.i
> 
> The last change that I committed was that tlshell itself also
> actually tests for writability, while previously it just checked for
> permissions, which do not always tell the whole story. Tlshell is
> meant to be run by the owner of the installation.

Thank you for the information.  I tried it as root and it worked.
Wouldn't it be nice to have the error message cleanly formatted in a
window with some Ok button to aknowledge the information?

By the way, tlshell is very nice!

-- R.