Am Montag, 4. Juli 2016 um 09:12:01, schrieb Michael Berger <id...@online.de> > Dear Kornel, > with your help I have a functioning TL GUI installation. > The active GUI can be called as user from Konsole, which is what I was > heading for. > > However, editing of the GUI became possible only after giving write > permission to 'tlpkg' in > /usr/bin/texlive/2016/tlpkg > I presume that was a necessary change to do ?!
Weird, you only need execute and read permissions.
> I find two installations:
> /usr/bin/texlive/2016/bin/x86_64-linux (413 items)
> and
> /usr/local/texlive/2016/bin/x86_64-linux (413 items)
This one looks OK.
> Both are of the same structure and size (139,5 MiB) and both have
> 'tlmgr' in /x86:64-linux.
>
> Settings of PATH in '.bash_profile':
> PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2016/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH; export PATH
> (INFOPATH and MANPATH are set accordingly)
>
> My core question is now:
> Do I have to keep both installations as they are or should/could I
> remove one (for reason of saving space) without loosing functionality ?
I don’t have /usr/bin/texlive/2016, so I suppose you have eventually installed
it there too in some
previous try.
> Which of the two could/should possibly be removed and if so, how to
> safely do that?
>
> Sorry for asking, meanwhile I am over-cautious :-\
Try to *rename* /usr/bin/texlive/2016 to /usr/bin/texlive/xxxx.
If everything still works, you may remove /usr/bin/texlive/xxxx.
> Thanks and cheers,
> Michael
Kornel
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