Tlmgr returning error in Linux about tinytex-releases

[yihui]

If you want to install TinyTeX on Linux, you can use the method here: https://yihui.org/tinytex/#installation which essentially runs this script: https://github.com/yihui/tinytex/blob/master/tools/install-bin-unix.sh

[yihui]

You need to cd into the directory of tlmgr:
https://github.com/yihui/tinytex/blob/9ba0e4eef2ea98b8a3cef4eff65bd91c51c7e4ab/tools/install-bin-unix.sh#L16-L18

It seems that tlmgr under ~/.TinyTeX/bin/x86_64-linux is dependent on the working directory.

[naveen521kk]

I appreciate a clear mention of this in docs. I haven't tried it yet. Once, I tried it and confirm I will close this issue.

[yihui]

To be honest, this is the first time I have discovered it over the several years of using tlmgr. Perhaps I'd never know it by myself, and was just too lucky to have done tlmgr path add correctly in the first time :)

[naveen521kk]

Yes, what you said worked. I tried the below command and it worked without any errors.

cd .TinyTeX/bin/x86_64-linux && ./tlmgr path add

[naveen521kk]

I am closing this as this is fixed. Also, why not publish to apt for TexLive?

[yihui]

That might be a good idea, but I'm not interested in it. Users have too little freedom with a Debian package (which may make sense for other packages but not for TeX Live in my opinion): https://yihui.org/tinytex/pain/

If I were to make this a package at all, I'd probably consider Homebrew instead (which works for both macOS and Linux), so users can brew install tinytex. I have done some work a couple of years ago: https://github.com/yihui/homebrew-tinytex I didn't think it was a good idea at that time, but I think it's okay now because we have got stable releases.