tlshell failure on x86_64-linux

[Denis Bitouzé]

Le 10/03/20 à 17h28, Robert Alessi a écrit :

> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 05:13:25PM +0100, Denis Bitouzé wrote:
>> How do you access to "expert mode" in tlcockpit?
>
> At the bottom of the window, there is an "Experts only" item which
> gives you the ability to enter any tlmgr shell command.

Ah, OK. But, IMHO, all concerning symlinks shouldn't be hidden in
"Experts only" zone and shouldn't be provided only through command line.

>> At least the default mode lets you specify, in Options → General... the
>> destinations for symlinks for:
>> 
>> - binaries,
>> - docs,
>> - man pages.
>
> I tried Options --> General, but nothing happened.  Strange.

Did you run it as root?

>> However, it seems to not provide the:
>> 
>> - "Update symbolic links",
>> - "Remove symbolic links",
>> 
>> actions, as `tlmgr -gui` provides (in default mode: Actions → Handle
>> symlinks in system dirs).
>
> Maybe via the Experts only feature?

With command line, every tlmgr command can indeed be run. But it is
worth providing menus/buttons/whatever that let the user deal with
symlinks (just as `tlmgr -gui` does).
-- 
Denis