Getting tlmgr working

[Antonio Olivares]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:

> Seriously though, tlmgr is the name of the package and configuration
> manager included in TeX Live. It operates completely separately from
> any package manager the operating system may provide. I fail to see why
> it was disabled. I think I will take the advice I was given and clear
> TeXLive from my system and then download and install it from it from
> "tug.org". I have been told it works perfectly and without any of the
> BS that FreeBSD apparently decided to attach to it. Again, if it wasn't
> broke, why did they feel the need to fix it? Are we sure that FreeBSD
> doesn't work for the government?
>
> --

Have you used the freebsd-texlive ports?

https://code.google.com/p/freebsd-texlive/

For a good while, Romain Tartiere has provided these ports which took
care of many complicated things that had not been done natively in
FreeBSD.

> Again, if it wasn't
> broke, why did they feel the need to fix it?


They* never fixed it, up till recently, texlive has officially been
added to the FreeBSD ports:

root at grullahighschool:~ # cat /usr/ports/UPDATING | grep 'texlive'
  Specifying TEX_DEFAULT=texlive, almost all of ports which use TeX
  The directory layout of them is as follows.  Please use print/texlive-full
   - print/texlive-full: meta port to install all of the TeXLive components
   - print/texlive-base: binary programs in TeXLive
   - print/texlive-texmf: macro and font data in TeXLive
   - print/texlive-infra: tlmgr dependency (Perl modules)

20130511:
  AFFECTS: users of TeX
  AUTHOR: hrs at FreeBSD.org

  One can now choose TeXLive or teTeX by using TEX_DEFAULT.
  Specifying TEX_DEFAULT=texlive, almost all of ports which use TeX
  will install and depend on TeXLive-based ones.  Note that the
  default value is still "tetex" and the two cannot coexist.  You need
  to remove all of the TeX-related packages based on teTeX to try
  TeXLive.

20130506:
  AFFECTS: users of TeX
  AUTHOR: hrs at FreeBSD.org

  TeXLive ports have been imported.  Although most of ports still depend
  on teTeX at this moment, they will be converted to use TeXLive.

  The directory layout of them is as follows.  Please use print/texlive-full
  if you are not familiar with how each component works.  Finer-grained
  ports will be added (specifically, meta ports for smaller installation
  and so on).  Note that the full installation needs around 3GB of disk space.

  teTeX-based ports and TeXLive are mutually exclusive.  This means TeXLive
  ports cannot be installed when teTeX is already installed.  You need
  to remove all of the TeX-related packages based on teTeX to try TeXLive.
  Migration procedure will be announced when conversion of the port
  dependency is completed.

  * Meta port
   - print/texlive-full: meta port to install all of the TeXLive components

  * Libraries
   - devel/tex-kpathsea: kpathsea library
   - devel/tex-web2c: WEB2C toolchain and TeX engines
   - print/tex-ptexenc: character code conversion library for pTeX

  * Base part of the TeXLive
   - print/texlive-base: binary programs in TeXLive
   - print/texlive-texmf: macro and font data in TeXLive
   - print/texlive-infra: tlmgr dependency (Perl modules)
   - print/tex-formats:

  * TeX Formats
   - print/tex-formats: TeX, LaTeX, PDFTeX, AMSTeX, ConTeXT, CSLaTeX,
       EplainTeX, METAFONT, MLTeX, PDFTeX, TeXsis
   - print/tex-aleph: Aleph/Lambda
   - print/tex-xetex: XeTeX
   - print/tex-luatex: LuaTeX
   - print/tex-jadetex: JadeTeX
   - print/tex-xmltex: XMLTeX
   - japanese/tex-ptex: pTeX

  * DVI ware
   - print/tex-xdvik: XDvi


It took a BIG WHILE to get texlive onboard natively on official
FreeBSD ports.  TeTeX has been depracated since 2006 and now it is
there, but people are never happy.

> Are we sure that FreeBSD
> doesn't work for the government?

Which government?  I hope not the U.S. government which is doing
things backwards and thinking on their feet instead of their brains
and not respecting *

Best Regards,


Antonio