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This is unfortunate, I had no idea about the changes being done by the ArchLinux community to the TexLive packages. A quick look shows there are some considerable difference which make adapting tllocalmgr difficult; per https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=286197 it seems that texlive-localmanager tools (which I forked) will not be further developed, it is suggested to use tlmgr instead.

I will have a go over this week to see what is possible, but I'm not promising that I can make it work.

Hi all, I've forked the project and applied all patches. A stable release is now available at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tllocalmgr, I strongly urge everyone to switch to it!

The git package has also been updated to follow the fork, which means version numbers have changed again (sorry if this causes issues). Thanks everyone!

This is unfortunate, I had no idea about the changes being done by the ArchLinux community to the TexLive packages. A quick look shows there are some considerable difference which make adapting tllocalmgr difficult; per https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=286197 it seems that texlive-localmanager tools (which I forked) will not be further developed, it is suggested to use tlmgr instead.

I will have a go over this week to see what is possible, but I'm not promising that I can make it work.

@j.mlr: The TLPDB module checks that the directory hierarchy under ~/.texlive/texmf-var/arch is correct. Earlier versions of tllocalmgr did not follow the TeX Directory Structure (TBS) fully, meaning the module fails to load. The latest commit fixes this but requires user intervention. Either call tllocalmgr with --forcereset or do a mkdir -p ~/.texlive/texmf-var/arch/web2c.

In my particular case, this package no longer works but tllocalmgr does.

This package gives the "TLPDB: Cannot determine type of tlpdb" error when launches.

Hi all, I've forked the project and applied all patches. A stable release is now available at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tllocalmgr, I strongly urge everyone to switch to it!

The git package has also been updated to follow the fork, which means version numbers have changed again (sorry if this causes issues). Thanks everyone!

Any plans on merging this upstream? Looks like you might be better off doing a proper fork.

@croyleje, yup totally fine so long as you only update to 2022, otherwise how the CTAN packages are installed will conflict with TL2021/2022.

@cphyc, thanks, updated!

I had the same issue and have no issue patching the files just wanted to know if I build and install the package locally will this cause an issue later down the road when package is updated.

With the recent update of texlive, the package is preventing the upgrade from happening with the following error:

$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronising package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing texlive-core (2022.63035-1) breaks dependency 'texlive-core<2022' required by tllocalmgr-git

This can be fixed with the following patch

diff --git a/.SRCINFO b/.SRCINFO
index 462f583..12d452a 100644
--- a/.SRCINFO
+++ b/.SRCINFO
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ pkgbase = tllocalmgr-git
    license = GPL
    makedepends = git
    depends = texlive-core>=2016
-   depends = texlive-core<2022
+   depends = texlive-core<2023
    depends = perl-libwww
    depends = perl-term-shellui
    depends = perl-term-readline-gnu
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ pkgbase = tllocalmgr-git
    conflicts = texlive-localmanager
    conflicts = texlive-localmanager-git
    source = texlive-localmanager::git+https://gitlab.archlinux.org/remy/texlive-localmanager.git
-   source = tllocalmgr-2021.patch
+   source = tllocalmgr-2022.patch
    source = tllocalmgr-enhance.patch
    source = tllocalmgr-fix-texlive-local-match.patch
    source = tllocalmgr-pkgs-nicer-error.patch
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 2164f9a..12c48f0 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ provides=("texlive-localmanager=$pkgver")
 conflicts=('texlive-localmanager'
            'texlive-localmanager-git')
 depends=('texlive-core>=2016'
-         'texlive-core<2022'
+         'texlive-core<2023'
          'perl-libwww'
          'perl-term-shellui'
          'perl-term-readline-gnu'
@@ -25,13 +25,13 @@ depends=('texlive-core>=2016'
 makedepends=('git')

 source=("${_pkgname}::git+https://gitlab.archlinux.org/remy/texlive-localmanager.git"
-        'tllocalmgr-2021.patch'
+        'tllocalmgr-2022.patch'
         'tllocalmgr-enhance.patch'
         'tllocalmgr-fix-texlive-local-match.patch'
         'tllocalmgr-pkgs-nicer-error.patch'
         'tllocalmgr-mirror-opt.patch')
 sha256sums=('SKIP'
-            'cd12f1927fa9d950855aab91b30039d0cbb328a8c7899382286d3ace16bb6a3b'
+            '474851828cbe68564109d16abb10104e1cbbd2e6970161fd992fb082e6740ee8'
             '22222ff329919ee6a16ffd489b0213b14f8169d9daf6ef1a82aa5ab37538c236'
             'a7698d0076f4e1a7ef401899c174ed9a290674a7e89e9c818ba078e17548c6e7'
             '23f103c606eb595d8c114aee2ca3006a09588370087b959419f86a4a8ce25a43'
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ pkgver() {
 prepare() {
   cd "$_pkgname"

-  # update to handle texlive-2021 releases
-  patch -p1 < "$srcdir/tllocalmgr-2021.patch"
+  # update to handle texlive-2022 releases
+  patch -p1 < "$srcdir/tllocalmgr-2022.patch"

   # enhances the tllocalmgr script a bit
   # thanks: @sharethewisdom and @cobaltspace
diff --git a/tllocalmgr-2022.patch b/tllocalmgr-2022.patch
index 35a52c1..a7b64cf 100644
--- a/tllocalmgr-2022.patch
+++ b/tllocalmgr-2022.patch
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ index e27f70b..b6e5101 100644
  # the year of our release, will be used in the location of the
  # network packages, and in menu names, and other places.
 -$ReleaseYear = 2019;
-+$ReleaseYear = 2021;
++$ReleaseYear = 2022;

  # users can upgrade from this year to the current year; might be the
  # same as the release year, or any number of releases earlier.

and renaming tllocalmgr-2021.patch to tllocalmgr-2022.patch.

@hv15 Ah, so it's just a case of a misleading error message?

Error: command install is not defined

should have probably been

No package "extdash" found

Thanks, problem solved!

@gustaphe I pushed a fix for this; suffice it to say the 'extdash' sty is part of the 'ncctools' CTAN package. You can install it on ArchLinux through the 'texlive-latexextra' package.