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Hello!
I know this is not a relevant question for this forum, however I still hope to be able to get some help from here too.
I am running texlive-20100722. To build it I have used a modified version ot Robby's SlackBuild. Now I need to update the pgf package. The package manager for texlive is tlmgr. However, when I issue:
Code:
tlmgr update pgf
I get:
[QUOTE]/usr/share/texmf/bin/tlmgr: open(/usr/share/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb) failed: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1/TeXLive/TLPDB.pm line 282.[QUOTE]
Some googling revealed that texlive.tlpdb is the installation’s TEX Live Package Database. However, in my installation is is not present. I guess it has to be generated somehow, but I do not know how. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
I agree with A. Mani that the most reliable way to install TeXLive is a full direct install. I generally prefer SlackBuilds, but TeXLive is just too big and cumbersome. Plus, it is one package that I don't expect to ever have to uninstall.
Since you already have the SlackBuild installed, there may be a way to trick or force tlmgr into recreating the TeXLive package database. Try to check that the tlmgr configuration option for a repository is set. Then, if you haven't tried already, do a:
tlmgr update --self
That should update tlmgr itself, plus some of the other core files. Even with a conventional installation of TeXLive, the self update is usually necessary before updating other packages.
this is a very helpful thread, I've installed texlive directly today as Lirey suggests. Everything is working properly now. Once I had issues when I tried to use pgf/tikz with the tetex-package from the stock Slackware-installation. I had installed Robby Workman's package back then, but it seemd a bit outdated.
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