Yes the tex errors are because of CTAN being so unreliable. I really think
we should scrap the entire manual tlmgr route and stick with installing
texlive from the ubuntu repos instead.
Yeah it is a bit large but so much more reliable. (Maybe we can also
re-evaluate which images need tex?)
This problem seems to reproduce on Ubuntu.
Debian 12 (bookworm) with ca-certificates installed:
Yes the tex errors are because of CTAN being so unreliable. I really think we should scrap the entire manual tlmgr route and stick with installing texlive from the ubuntu repos instead.
Yeah it is a bit large but so much more reliable. (Maybe we can also re-evaluate which images need tex?)
Originally posted by @cboettig in https://github.com/rocker-org/rocker-versioned2/issues/806#issuecomment-2099313261