Hi Norbert On 2016-06-02 15:21 ow...@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) wrote: > #826131: texlive-base: tlmgr "cannot setup TLPDB" and doesn't > open/update because of that
Of course I know the USER MODE and have read the part of the documentation! That wasn't the case of the bugreport - but I think it was quite unspecific. Sorry for that. Please correct me if I am wrong: The user mode is to handle secondary TexLive installations beside the main one. So you can have multiple TeXLive installations on one system. Correct? But the user mode is not able to touch the main installation. Correct? Having more than one TeXLive at the same machine sounds quite exotic for me. :) Anyway. Of course I just want to manage (update) the main installation - nothing more. Do you say that there is no way to manage the main installation with tlmgr on a Debian system? If it is so than the error message should be much more precise. kind of: "Running on Debian. Switching to user mode. Keep in mind that tlmgr can not manage the main installation. Use the Debian package system (apt) to update your main TeXLive installation." What do you think? Or just kill the tlmgr (like Ubuntu does) to prevent such missunderstandings.
