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Install script for TeX Live on Ubuntu
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TeX Live 2017 has been released #36

Closed mathuin closed 7 years ago

mathuin commented 7 years ago

https://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html

TeX Live 2017 was released today.

o9o commented 7 years ago

I've noticed that the script downloads the latest distribution without any change.

mathuin commented 7 years ago

Just ran the script today, this was the output:

install-tl-ubuntu: WARNING: this script currently supports Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10, 13.04, 13.10, and 14.04. 
For other versions, one would probably want to use a different 
debian-control-texlive-in.txt file.
install-tl-ubuntu: checking for TeX Live environment variables...
sudo: unknown user: nala-local:x:1000:1000:nala-local,,,:/localhome/nala-local:/bin/bash
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
install-tl-ubuntu: running apt and dpkg commands...
install-tl-ubuntu: determining the fastest repository...
install-tl-ubuntu: the fastest repo is: http://muug.ca/mirror/ctan
install-tl-ubuntu: downloading and extracting install-tl for time number 1...
install-tl-ubuntu: install-tl downloaded and extracted successfully.
install-tl-ubuntu: starting install-tl for time number 1...
install-tl-ubuntu: going to run the following command:
        echo "i" | ./install-tl -repository "http://muug.ca/mirror/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/" -v  -logfile "/home/jmt/git/install-tl-ubuntu/install-tl-1.log"

install-tl-ubuntu: WARNING: ./install-tl failed.
install-tl-ubuntu: the installer and repo are mismatched. 
For example, the installer could be for TeX Live 2015 and the repo for 2014.
o9o commented 7 years ago

For me it worked with:

./install-tl-ubuntu -q http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/tex/systems/texlive/tlnet/

Maybe your mirror is not in a consistent state?

I've also removed my /usr/local/texlive first, and the script was executed from a clean clone. I'm not sure if it tries to cache anything.

The I see the correct version:

$ pdflatex -v
pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017)
kpathsea version 6.2.3
Copyright 2017 Han The Thanh (pdfTeX) et al.
There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the pdfTeX source.
Primary author of pdfTeX: Han The Thanh (pdfTeX) et al.
Compiled with libpng 1.6.29; using libpng 1.6.29
Compiled with zlib 1.2.11; using zlib 1.2.11
Compiled with xpdf version 3.04
mathuin commented 7 years ago

I recently had a change to nuke my entire TeX setup on my system and rebuild from scratch. It does build with TeX Live 2017 now. No need for this issue!

scottkosty commented 7 years ago

@mathuin I'm glad it worked! Thanks for updating the thread.

AlfonsoMuskedunder commented 6 years ago

@scottkosty Wouldn't the release of TeX Live 2018 be an excellent reason to overhaul the script a little bit...? :wink:

P.S. Thank you for providing it in the first place, it has helped me a lot in the past! :clap:

scottkosty commented 6 years ago

@AlfonsoMuskedunder it would indeed :) Thank you for this gentle push. I am planning to look into it in the next month or so.

AlfonsoMuskedunder commented 5 years ago

Hi, just a quick question...

I just ran the script in order to install TeX Live 2018, and it mostly succeeded, with one little exception: There was one warning which I unfortunately forgot to record before rebooting, I think it said that one particular file could not be created because it already existed, possibly a symbolic link?

Well, now when I run pdftex -v I still see pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017), but when I run /opt/texbin$ ./pdftex -v I get pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.19 (TeX Live 2018).

I tried to look up my PATH in /etc/environment, and it includes PATH="/opt/texbin:/usr/local/sbin ....

Can anyone tell me how I can point my system to TL 2018...?

scottkosty commented 5 years ago

@AlfonsoMuskedunder what is the output of which -a pdftex ?

AlfonsoMuskedunder commented 5 years ago

It is

/usr/local/texlive/2017/bin/x86_64-linux/pdftex
/opt/texbin/pdftex
scottkosty commented 5 years ago

@AlfonsoMuskedunder you could either remove /usr/local/texlive/2017/ from your path, or make sure that /opt/texbin/pdftex comes first in your path.

AlfonsoMuskedunder commented 5 years ago

Sorry for hijacking this thread again, but today I tried to run the script to install TL 2019. The log file says

./install-tl: The TeX Live versions of the local installation and the repository being accessed are not compatible: local: 2018 repository: 2019 Perhaps you need to use a different CTAN mirror?

Like in the comment above, I emptied /usr/local/texlive/ before running the script as well, but with the same effect.

Any help would be appreciated.

scottkosty commented 5 years ago

@AlfonsoMuskedunder how did you solve the problem last time?

AlfonsoMuskedunder commented 5 years ago

I think last time and now are different problems: Last time the installation as such succeeded, but the PATH variable still pointed to the old installation. (BTW, I followed your advice and removed /usr/local/texlive/2017/ from PATH; sorry for not reporting back. Thanks again!)

This time, the script won't run. This is the complete output:

install-tl-ubuntu: checking for TeX Live environment variables...
install-tl-ubuntu: running apt and dpkg commands...
install-tl-ubuntu: determining the fastest repository...
install-tl-ubuntu: the fastest repo is: http://vesta.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/mirror/ctan
install-tl-ubuntu: downloading and extracting install-tl for time number 1...
install-tl-ubuntu: install-tl downloaded and extracted successfully.
install-tl-ubuntu: starting install-tl for time number 1...
install-tl-ubuntu: going to run the following command:
        echo "i" | ./install-tl -repository "http://vesta.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/mirror/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/" -v  -logfile "/home/thorsten/GitHub/install-tl-ubuntu/install-tl-1.log"

install-tl-ubuntu: WARNING: ./install-tl failed.
install-tl-ubuntu: the installer and repo are mismatched. 
For example, the installer could be for TeX Live 2015 and the repo for 2014.
scottkosty commented 5 years ago

@AlfonsoMuskedunder could you try running install-tl-ubuntu with the option --repository and choose a different repository?

AlfonsoMuskedunder commented 5 years ago

I tried 5 different repos - the effect was the same each time... For instance:

...
install-tl-ubuntu: going to run the following command:
        echo "i" | ./install-tl -repository "ftp://archive.cs.uu.nl/mirror/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/" -v  -logfile "/home/alfonso/GitHub/install-tl-ubuntu/install-tl-1.log"

install-tl-ubuntu: WARNING: ./install-tl failed.
install-tl-ubuntu: the installer and repo are mismatched.
...
scottkosty commented 5 years ago

@AlfonsoMuskedunder Dang it that's strange. I am traveling now but if you ping me in 1 month I can try to reproduce on a virtual box instance. Unless I can reproduce, I'm not sure what else to try. Maybe post the full command that you're trying and the full output of the command and the log file(s).

AlfonsoMuskedunder commented 5 years ago

Thank you. For future efforts, here's the terminal output:

alfonson@alfonso:~/GitHub/install-tl-ubuntu$ sudo ./install-tl-ubuntu
install-tl-ubuntu: checking for TeX Live environment variables...
install-tl-ubuntu: running apt and dpkg commands...
install-tl-ubuntu: determining the fastest repository...
install-tl-ubuntu: the fastest repo is: http://vesta.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/mirror/ctan
install-tl-ubuntu: downloading and extracting install-tl for time number 1...
install-tl-ubuntu: install-tl downloaded and extracted successfully.
install-tl-ubuntu: starting install-tl for time number 1...
install-tl-ubuntu: going to run the following command:
        echo "i" | ./install-tl -repository "http://vesta.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/mirror/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/" -v  -logfile "/home/alfonso/GitHub/install-tl-ubuntu/install-tl-1.log"

install-tl-ubuntu: WARNING: ./install-tl failed.
install-tl-ubuntu: the installer and repo are mismatched. 
For example, the installer could be for TeX Live 2015 and the repo for 2014.

A gist of the standard log file can be found here. A gist of install-tl-ubuntu_EXTRAS.log is here.

scottkosty commented 5 years ago

@AlfonsoMuskedunder Thanks for posting those. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure it out. Ping me in a month and I can try in a virtual box. Perhaps I hardcoded a URL to the installer and that URL is out of date.

AlfonsoMuskedunder commented 5 years ago

Hi @scottkosty, consider this a ping! :bell: I just tried once more and I still get the same errors.

scottkosty commented 5 years ago

@AlfonsoMuskedunder thanks for the ping. One option is to try the DVD iso. See the documentation from install-tl-ubuntu --help regarding the --iso option.

AlfonsoMuskedunder commented 5 years ago

Thank you, using the ISO worked out fine!

scottkosty commented 5 years ago

Thank you, using the ISO worked out fine!

That's great! I still wish we could figure out your original issue, but I'm happy that you've got at least a temporary solution. Can you use tlmgr to update after installing from the ISO?

AlfonsoMuskedunder commented 5 years ago

That's great! I still wish we could figure out your original issue, but I'm happy that you've got at least a temporary solution.

Yeah, I'm surprised that I appear to be the only one having experienced this.

Can you use tlmgr to update after installing from the ISO?

Yup, it worked instantly! I had expected that I might have to change repos with tlmgr option repository ctan or so, but no need for that.

scottkosty commented 5 years ago

Yup, it worked instantly! I had expected that I might have to change repos with tlmgr option repository ctan or so, but no need for that.

Great! Thanks for those details, that's good to know.

bisraelsen commented 1 year ago

I'm having the same problem... not sure what's happening

EDIT: I re-cloned the repo and it started working... I had been using a copy I cloned a few years ago, and just did a git pull to update things, I think that must have been causing the issue.

scottkosty commented 1 year ago

@bisraelsen thanks for the update, glad it seems to be working (at least for now)!