[Tex/LaTex] tlmgr with Ubuntu TexLive

installing

I installed TexLive through Software Center of Ubuntu.
However it does not contain tlmgr which is quite useful to update the packages.

Is it possible to use tlmgr with default TexLive?
If yes, how can I only install tlmgr (without installing TexLive 2011)? I ran install.pl script in the downloadable TexLive 2011 installer folder, but I could not find a way to install only tlmgr.

Thanks.

Best Answer

You can't use both tlmgr and apt-get (Ubuntu's package manager). Either you manually install TeXLive 2011 from texlive and use tlmgr (which I would recommend), or you go with Ubuntu's packaged version of TeXLive (outdated, based on TeXLive 2009) and update it through apt-get, but you can't mix both.

If you go for a manual install of the latest TeXLive, consider using equivs to create a dummy TeXLive debian package and have your custom TeXLive installation taken into account for Ubuntu dependencies. Practically, put the following into a file called texlive-local.equivs:

Section: misc
Priority: optional
Standards-Version: 3.9.2

Package: texlive-local
Version: 2011-1~1
Maintainer: you <you@domain.org>
Provides: biblatex, biblatex-dw, cm-super, cm-super-minimal, context, dvipng, feynmf, fragmaster, lacheck, latex-beamer, latex-cjk-all, latex-cjk-chinese, latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bkai00mp, latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bsmi00lp, latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gbsn00lp, latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gkai00mp, latex-cjk-common, latex-cjk-japanese, latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab, latex-cjk-korean, latex-cjk-thai, latex-cjk-xcjk, latexmk, latex-sanskrit, latex-xcolor, lcdf-typetools, lmodern, luatex, musixlyr, musixtex, pgf, preview-latex-style, prosper, ps2eps, psutils, purifyeps, t1utils, tex4ht, tex4ht-common, tex-gyre, texlive, texlive-base, texlive-bibtex-extra, texlive-binaries, texlive-common, texlive-doc-base, texlive-doc-bg, texlive-doc-cs+sk, texlive-doc-de, texlive-doc-el, texlive-doc-en, texlive-doc-es, texlive-doc-fi, texlive-doc-fr, texlive-doc-it, texlive-doc-ja, texlive-doc-ko, texlive-doc-mn, texlive-doc-nl, texlive-doc-pl, texlive-doc-pt, texlive-doc-ru, texlive-doc-si, texlive-doc-th, texlive-doc-tr, texlive-doc-uk, texlive-doc-vi, texlive-doc-zh, texlive-extra-utils, texlive-fonts-extra, texlive-fonts-extra-doc, texlive-fonts-recommended, texlive-fonts-recommended-doc, texlive-font-utils, texlive-formats-extra, texlive-games, texlive-generic-extra, texlive-generic-recommended, texlive-humanities, texlive-humanities-doc, texlive-lang-african, texlive-lang-all, texlive-lang-arab, texlive-lang-arabic, texlive-lang-armenian, texlive-lang-croatian, texlive-lang-cyrillic, texlive-lang-czechslovak, texlive-lang-danish, texlive-lang-dutch, texlive-lang-finnish, texlive-lang-french, texlive-lang-german, texlive-lang-greek, texlive-lang-hebrew, texlive-lang-hungarian, texlive-lang-indic, texlive-lang-italian, texlive-lang-latin, texlive-lang-latvian, texlive-lang-lithuanian, texlive-lang-manju, texlive-lang-mongolian, texlive-lang-norwegian, texlive-lang-other, texlive-lang-polish, texlive-lang-portuguese, texlive-lang-spanish, texlive-lang-swedish, texlive-lang-tibetan, texlive-lang-ukenglish, texlive-lang-vietnamese, texlive-latex3, texlive-latex-base, texlive-latex-base-doc, texlive-latex-extra, texlive-latex-extra-doc, texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-latex-recommended-doc, texlive-luatex, texlive-math-extra, texlive-metapost, texlive-metapost-doc, texlive-music, texlive-omega, texlive-pictures, texlive-pictures-doc, texlive-plain-extra, texlive-pstricks, texlive-pstricks-doc, texlive-publishers, texlive-publishers-doc, texlive-science, texlive-science-doc, texlive-xetex, texpower, texpower-manual, thailatex, tipa, ttf-freefont, ttf-gfs-artemisia, ttf-gfs-baskerville, ttf-gfs-bodoni-classic, ttf-gfs-didot, ttf-gfs-didot-classic, ttf-gfs-gazis, ttf-gfs-neohellenic, ttf-gfs-olga, ttf-gfs-porson, ttf-gfs-solomos, ttf-gfs-theokritos, ttf-sil-gentium, xindy, xindy-rules
Architecture: all
Description: My local installation of TeX Live 2011.
 A full "vanilla" TeX Live 2011
 http://tug.org/texlive/debian#vanilla

and run

sudo apt-get install equivs
equivs-control texlive-local
equivs-build texlive-local.equivs
sudo dpkg -i texlive-local_2011-1~1_all.deb
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