On 9 June 2013 23:54, Kevin Godby <god...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Tony Pursell > <a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: > > I suppose that the advantage of the packaged version is that it gets > updated > > (if there is an updated version) at least every time you update to a new > > Ubuntu version and possibly in between Ubuntu versions. I installed > texlive > > for the precise manual, using the instructions on the website, and I > have no > > idea how to update it, if it does needs updating. > > Actually in the past, this hasn't been true. The Ubuntu packages > weren't updated very frequently (and were often a year or more out of > date). > > The Ubuntu/Debian packages were recently reorganized, however, so > perhaps they'll be kept up to date more frequently in the future. > > If you've installed TeX Live from upstream, you can update at any time > by running 'sudo tlmgr update --all --self'. The upstream packages > are updated quite frequently (i.e., daily) as newer packages are > released. > > (It may not work at the moment as they've stopped 2012 updates while > they finalize the 2013 for release.) > > —Kevin > When I run
sudo tlmgr update --list I get tlmgr: package repository http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet /usr/local/bin/tlmgr: The TeX Live versions supported by the repository (2012--2012) do not include the version of the local installation (2011). Goodbye. Tony
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