Am Mittwoch, 6. Juli 2016 um 10:34:05, schrieb Michael Berger <id...@online.de> > > On 07/05/2016 12:52 PM, Kornel Benko wrote: > > 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. > Yes, but then I can fully edit TL's GUI as a *USER* - so does it not > make sense? > >> 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? > >> > >> > >> Try to *rename* /usr/bin/texlive/2016 to /usr/bin/texlive/xxxx. > >> If everything still works, you may remove /usr/bin/texlive/xxxx. > I renamed /.../texlive/2016 to /.../texlive/xxxx and find that I can > call 'tlmgr gui' as user just as before and edit it (e.g. update, change > mirror etc.) > > Would it suffice to do: > rm -rf /usr/bin/texlive/xxxx > ? > Please advise.
Let it stay for some time. I suppose, you have enough space on your hard disk.
In case you are facing some problems in the future, it is easy to revert.
> Thanks and cheers,
> Michael
Kornel
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