How to install texlive 2016 with tmlgr on Debian?

How to install texlive 2016 with tmlgr on Debian?

Install cleanly vanilla TeXLive 2016 with tmlgr after having old TeXLive in the system successfully: there is no errors/warnings in /usr/local/texlive/2016/*.log, complete log example here. root@masi:/home/masi/Downloads/t/install-tl-20161019# tlmgr update –self (running on Debian, switching to user mode!)

Where can I find the unknown directive in TeXLive?

Unknown directive …containerchecksum c59200574a316416a23695c258edf3a32531fbda43ccdc09360ee105c3f07f9fb77df17c4ba4c2ea4f3a5ea6667e064b51e3d8c2fe6c984ba3e71b4e32716955… , please fix it! at /usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm line 210, line 5579.

How to install a package from an older version of texlive?

Unknown directive …containerchecksum c59200574a316416a23695c258edf3a32531fbda43ccdc09360ee105c3f07f9fb77df17c4ba4c2ea4f3a5ea6667e064b51e3d8c2fe6c984ba3e71b4e32716955… , please fix it! at /usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm line 210, <$retfh> line 5579. as is explained here How to install a package from an older version of TeXLive?.

Where can I download the latest version of tlmgr?

You have to download update-tlmgr-latest.sh from the tlpretest repository and run it. Afterwards you will be able to work with tlmgr as usual (announced by Norbert a few hours ago). I’ve downloaded it from https://www.tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html, but it returned another error: Verifying archive integrity… All good.

Where do I run tlmgr on Linux Mint?

Starting from a Debian-packages TeX Live installation, I would recommend always running tlmgr as yourself, not root: should be used to point tlmgr at the repository matching your installation (2017 for Linux Mint, 2018 for Debian 10, etc.). tlmgr install

How to update the latest version of tlmgr?

I go to the website linked above and download and run update-tlmgr-latest.sh, and I get: (env) mvh:Downloads$ bash update-tlmgr-latest.sh Verifying archive integrity…