[Tex/LaTex] TeX Live installation is missing tlmgr, how to fix

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I installed with the net install TeX Live 2010 on an Ubuntu machine. Because I don't have to much space to spare I carefully selected components to install to reduce the required disk-space.

Later I missed some package and I wanted to install it with tlmgr. However, tlmgr is nowhere to be found! I'm guessing I somehow didn't install it.

How can I fix this the best?

Edit: I did really installed the TeX Live 2010 from the TeX Live website. I downloaded this file, and started the installation with sudo ./install-tl. The paths I kept standard and the only thing I changed are which collections are installed, leaving some collections that are not useful for me out. When I list all binaries in /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/i386-linux I have e.g. latex,lualatex,bibtex etc. but not xetex (which I didn't want to install) and not tlmgr.

Also, when I type pdflatex anywhere, I see the following version This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (Tex Live 2010) which wouldn't be possible with Ubuntu packages, as they are TeX Live 2009. (which pdflatex gives /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/i386-linux/pdflatex)

Best Answer

It should be safe to install TL again with the same location settings, and this time only select tlmgr. (I'm surprised tlmgr is not part of the 'essential binaries' group anyway.) I think it would be safe to uncheck all "macros for XXX" options sice they will not be erased from a previous install, I'm less sure about font options.

Are you installing a version of TL provided by Debian/Ubuntu? Those have been known to remove tlmgr in the first place, since it's a packaging mechanism that bypasses the distribution's own.)