TeX Live Manager (tlmgr) on Debian ================================== Rationale --------- The TeX Live Manager (tlmgr) is the main configuration and package management program in *upstream* TeX Live. Thus, the Debian TeX Team has often received requests for providing `tlmgr` in Debian. Since package management (installation, update, ...) is the responsability of APT (apt, apt-get, ...), `tlmgr` *cannot* interfere with it, but uses the "TeX Live Manager User Mode" instead. For details concerning the User Mode, see https://tug.org/texlive/doc/tlmgr.html#USER-MODE Warning ------- `tlmgr` on Debian automatically switches to user mode. Consequences of this are: - an initial setup step is necessary (see the documentation) - packages will be installed into `TEXMFHOME` which normally is `$HOME/texmf` - packages installed into `TEXMFHOME` will override system-wide installed packages, that means a later system update will **not** be seen by TeX - not all packages can be installed using the user mode, see the above link for details We strongly recommend **not** to user the TeX Live Manager user mode on Debian. If you are using it despite the warnings, be prepared to fix your own TeX system. If you want the full power of TeX Live Manager, we recommend installing TeX Live from upstream https://tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html See also "Integrating vanilla TeX Live with Debian" here https://tug.org/texlive/debian.html
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