Hi Troy, first of all, I have no idea about Fedora's packaging of TL, but I know how I did the packaging in Debian, and I know upstream TL quite well.
> The command "tlmgr paper letter" does not seem to affect LuaTeX I don't think that tlmgr paper will work out of the box in Fedora. tlmgr is a package manager, and making it work would mean interfering with rpm/dnf/whatever fedora uses. Thus, I guess that your changes didn't work. > > sudo tlmgr paper letter > tlmgr: setting paper size for dvipdfmx to letter: > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx.cfg > tlmgr: setting paper size for dvips to letter: > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/dvips/config/config.ps > tlmgr: setting paper size for pdftex to letter: > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/tex/generic/tex-ini-files/pdftexconfig.tex > tlmgr: setting paper size for psutils to letter: > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/psutils/paper.cfg > tlmgr: setting paper size for xdvi to letter: > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/xdvi/XDvi > tlmgr: An error has occurred. See above messages. Exiting. It is strange that there is no other indication of what went wrong. If you can reproduce this with tlmgr -v paper letter (or even -v -v) and send me the output, I can take a look. > This is almost certainly a Fedora TeX Live packaging issue, and it could be Yes, so I suggest contacting Fedora about this. Nothing we here can fix. The least this list (luatex), but even the main tex-live mailing list wouldn't be perfect (although some fedora users might help you there). > resolved (I'm confident) by manually installing the binary TeX Live > distribution directly from TUG (which I have done many times before). Yes, that is what I do, too. > However, this is an undesirable solution because it may cause other > packages (that depend on TeX Live) to be "confused" and also would result > in twice the storage used (having side-by-side installations of TeX Live). confusion comes from PATH setup. You have to make sure that the TUG TL comes first in the PATH. Concerning storage size: In Debian you can use the "equivs" command to create a package that *fakes* an installation, see https://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html under "Integrating vanilla TeX Live with Debian" I am pretty sure there is something similar for Fedora, too. > - Is it possible to change the default paper size without having to use > tlmgr? Does tlmgr call/execute a particular command that could possibly be > executed manually? Change the configuration files used. The question is where these files are located in Fedora. Maybe in /etc/texmf ? Best Norbert -- PREINING Norbert https://www.preining.info Mercari Inc. + IFMGA Guide + TU Wien + TeX Live GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13