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Hi all,
Long time latex user here. Used to employ AUR texlive-localmanager-git to install ctan packages without any issues. The new latex reformatting of packages has caused me quite some headaches but I have managed to solve most of them. The one that I have not yet figured out is how to install new ctan packages using "tlmgr". Let us say for instance that I want to install arial.sty that is in principle provided by https://www.ctan.org/pkg/urw-arial.
So, now if I do:
sudo tlmgr info urw-arial | grep collection
sudo tlmgr info arial | grep collectionI get nothing, no output at all.
Reading tlmgr documentaion I figure that I should probably add ctan in the repo, which I try with:
sudo tlmgr option repository ctanand this is met with:
tlmgr: setting default package repository to https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet
tlmgr: updating /usr/share/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
tlmgr: Cannot save 00texlive.installation to /usr/share/tlpkg/tlpobj/00texlive.installation.tlpobj
tlmgr: action option returned an error; continuing.
tlmgr: An error has occurred. See above messages. Exiting.Now, if I go /usr/share/tlpkg I see that directory tlpobj does not exist, so it is no wonder the command fails.
So, at this point I am out of ideas.
Note: texlive-fontsextra and texlive-fontsrecommended are both installed, but it seems to me neither of them provide arial fonts.
Thanks for your help !
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Update: I have solved the problem my manually installing the ctan package, unzipping in the right location, move files in the correct directories inside /usr/share/texmf-dist/ and running texhash. For the moment it works but something might fail next time a pacman tries to upgrade a latex package.
The current situation is far from ideal. I find the current status of the latex packages to be a regression with respect to the previous situation. texlive-localmanager-git used to work flawlessly and tmlgr just does not get the job done. I apologize for the criticism, but that is the way I see it, really.
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tlmgr is not meant to work with a pacman-installed texlive. Either use repo packages or install everything locally and manage it with tlmgr, but you can't have it both ways.
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That might be the case, but really, the wiki clearly misleads people in this regard. For instance: 1.1 live install; 1.2 arch package install (my case); 1.2.2 installation of ctan packages using tlmgr .... since 1.2.2 is a \subsubsection of \section 1.2 it absolutely makes one think that what you say is not possible, actually IS possible.
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