Package: texlive-base
Version: 2018.20180824-1
Severity: minor
Trying to learn how to use tlmgr was a bit unpleasant experience.
I first tried this:
$ tlmgr update
(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
Cannot determine type of tlpdb from /home/jwilk/texmf!
cannot setup TLPDB in /home/jwilk/texmf at /usr/bin/tlmgr line 6513.
The error messages gave me no clue what is wrong.
OK, I found in the man page that I'm supposed to run init-usertree
beforehand:
$ tlmgr init-usertree
(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
Cannot determine type of tlpdb from /home/jwilk/texmf!
This looks like it failed too, but it did in fact succeed.
Please make the messages more helpful, for example:
$ tlmgr update
(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
/home/jwilk/texmf does not exist; run "tlmgr init-usertree" first.
$ tlmgr init-usertree
Successfully initialized TLPDB in /home/jwilk/texmf/.
-- System Information:
Architecture: i386
Versions of packages texlive-base depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.69
ii tex-common 6.09
ii libpaper-utils 1.1.24+nmu5
ii sensible-utils 0.0.12
ii texlive-binaries 2018.20180824.48463-1
ii ucf 3.0038
ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-1
--
Jakub Wilk
