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Registered: 2026-02-14

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tlmgr: Local TeX Live (2023) is older than remote repository (2025).

Hey,

I currently try to install some TeX-Packages using tlmgr but I keep getting the error message mentioned in the title.

tlmgr info
tlmgr: Local TeX Live (2023) is older than remote repository (2025).
Cross release updates are only supported with
  update-tlmgr-latest(.sh/.exe) --update
See https://tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html for details.

I do not quite understand the cause of the error, because my local installation seems to be up to date.

tlmgr --version
tlmgr revision 74241 (2025-02-23 23:10:34 +0000)
tlmgr using installation: /usr/share

tex --version
TeX 3.141592653 (TeX Live 2026/dev/Arch Linux)
kpathsea version 6.4.2/dev
Copyright 2025 D.E. Knuth.
There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the TeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the TeX source.
Primary author of TeX: D.E. Knuth.

Do you have an idea what the error might be or do I just have to install the native version of Tex Live?

Thanks in advance!

zoqaeski

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From: /earth/australia/.

Registered: 2009-09-30

Posts: 133

Re: tlmgr: Local TeX Live (2023) is older than remote repository (2025).

How did you install TeX Live? You may need to reinstall it from the latest mirror — the version of tlmgr you have is out-of-date. tlmgr is frozen about a month or so before the next version of TeX Live is released and won't download updates after that date.

If you're using the TeX Live Installer AUR package then you may need to rebuild it with the latest version of install-tl-unx.tar.gz manually downloaded from a mirror. The redirect in the PKGBUILD sometimes fetches an out-of-date version if the mirror nearest to you hasn't been updated.

To make it easier for you (as I just had to search around for this when I had a similar issue), here is an up-to-date mirror as of today (2026-03-13).

EDIT
install-tl should report something similar to the following if it has been updated:

$ /opt/texlive-installer/install-tl --version
install-tl (TeX Live Cross Platform Installer) revision 78253
TeX Live (https://tug.org/texlive) version 2026

Last edited by zoqaeski (2026-03-13 01:25:16)