"tlmgr" on "Ubuntu 22.04"

peacecop kalmer: kalmer at test.tennis24.ee
Fri Jul 29 02:36:23 CEST 2022


After following your last suggestion, /sudo tlmgr/ works and not the 
full path must be given.

On 29.07.22 03:11, Max Chernoff wrote:
>>   4. peacecop at peacecop-HP-ProBook-4520s:~$ mkdir -p ~/.config/environment.d/
>>      peacecop at peacecop-HP-ProBook-4520s:~$ echo
>>      'PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2022/bin/x86_64-linux/:${PATH}' >
>>      ~/.config/environment.d/texlive-path.conf
>>      After reboot, /TeXstudio/ works like before and no /sudo/ is needed.
>>      Even /tex-locale/ is found. However, /tlmgr/ still acts weird:
>>      peacecop at peacecop-HP-ProBook-4520s:~$ tlmgr install tex-locale
>>      You don't have permission to change the installation in any way,
>>      specifically, the directory /usr/local/texlive/2022/tlpkg/ is not
>>      writable.
>>      Please run this program as administrator, or contact your local admin.
>>      tlmgr: An error has occurred. See above messages. Exiting.
>>      peacecop at peacecop-HP-ProBook-4520s:~$ sudo tlmgr install tex-locale
>>      [sudo] password for peacecop:
>>      sudo: tlmgr: command not found
>>      peacecop at peacecop-HP-ProBook-4520s:~$ which tlmgr
>>      /usr/local/texlive/2022/bin/x86_64-linux/tlmgr
>>      If i do just /tlmgr list/ then i get the list.
> Alright, so it looks like the path is set correctly for your user now.
> Sudo resets most of the environment when it's ran, so it can't find
> tlmgr.
>
> Probably the easiest way to fix this is to run
>
>     sudo visudo
>     
> then add your TL bin path to the path list, which is on the line beginning
> with:
>
>     Defaults    secure_path
>     
> -- Max
>     
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