Thanks Doc, Lyx is working just fine now, and for years last past, so I will follow your suggestion and leave well enough alone. I am not a "cutting edge" guy. I am more a "prehistoric sledgehammer" kind of guy. I don't even have a cell phone, preferring to use twinkle as a sip phone on my laptop.
Keep safe. John On Sunday, November 1, 2020 11:05:51 AM PST Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > John, > > Debian uses a package manager (which implies stability and long intervals > between updates) instead of the lates TeXLive. > > If you are bored, there is apparently a dummy package to > install TeXLive instead of using the package manager, which however needs > to be upgraded every year. > > For production use (as in your case) I would stay with the package manager. > Mixing both together can cause difficult to trace issues. > > I like to bleed the edge, tip the spear, crack the ass so to say, so I > upgrade early and often, even if it means running into the odd (usually > temporary) issue. I have this scripted. > > The coming LyX version will like all major upgrades make changes to the file > format so older versions will be unable to read that, which would create an > issue for one of my collaborators, though I can do a Zoom Sunday school. > But if one waits a week or so, they will issue a version that can, which he > will update by himself. > > The below shows me you didn’t run it with sudo, but then I would not mix > tlmgr with apt. > > > greetings, el > > — > Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPad Mini 5 > > On 1 Nov 2020, 18:37 +0200, John White <j...@whitelawchartered.com>, wrote: > > ?? > > > > On Sunday, November 1, 2020 6:22:45 AM PST Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > > > tlmgr update --self --all > > > > johwhi@johwhi:~$ tlmgr update --self --all > > (running on Debian, switching to user mode!) > > Cannot determine type of tlpdb from /home/johwhi/texmf! > > tlmgr: running in usermode, did you call `tlmgr init-usertree'? > > johwhi@johwhi:~$ > > I am using Debian buster (10) > > Suggestions? > > John -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
