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Fixing tlmgr cannot setup TLPDB

Dominik Schöler
November 12, 2014Software engineer at makandra GmbH

tlmgr is the TeX Live Manager and responsible for the TeX installation on your (Linux) machine.

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If you're getting the message:

(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
cannot setup TLPDB in /home/dominik/texmf at /usr/bin/tlmgr line 5336.

... tlmgr has not been initialized. Run this to initialize it:

tlmgr init-usertree

Then, you may set e.g. a global paper size standard: tlmgr paper a4.

Posted by Dominik Schöler to makandra dev (2014-11-12 17:58)