[Tex/LaTex] tlmgr: Remote repository is newer than local (2018 < 2019)

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I know this question looks like a duplicate but it's not, all the other solutions are not working for me.

I'm using debian 10 buster and I installed texlive with: sudo aptitude install texlive texlive-base, then I tried to compile a document and got this error:

Package babel Error: Unkown option `french'. Either you misspelled it or the language definition file french.ldf was not found

Next I tried this:

tlmgr init-usertree

then this:

tlmgr install babel-french

but I got this error:

tlmgr: Remote repository is newer than local (2018 < 2019)
Cross release updates are only supported with update-tlmgr-latest(.sh/.exe) --update

Best Answer

Debian packages a complete TeXLive, so you can install matching packages from the Debian repositories. In your case you should install texlive-lang-french via apt-get (or texlive-full if you want to avoid this in the future).

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This seems to do the trick. The solution is to downgrade the repository to 2017 version. This seems to be easy enough, but a quick search for the error did not suggest anything of this sort.

sudo tlmgr option repository ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2017/tlnet-final

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Alright, it is not exactly a fixing way but at least it worked. I uninstalled Xournal++ with Ubuntu software.

I then reinstalled it with:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apandada1/xournalpp-stable
sudo apt update
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As suggested in the GitHub Readme. And now the LaTeX Formulas work. The version of xournalpp in Ubuntu's software center is a sandboxed snap package, and it has incompatibility issues with external components like LaTeX. Installing the native Debian package (in the PPA) solves the problem.

I also now understand it's not that much a LaTeX related question.

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