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Impossible to install TL 2024 (TL 2023 is systematically installed instead) on Debian Desktop 12 and Ubuntu WSL 4

texlive

zetyty zetyty

7 Texlive 2024 is currently still in pretest. To install it, you can follow the detailed instructions from https://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html

samcarter

Remove documentations from existing texlive installation 6

texlive

samcarter samcarter

4 You can set up a quick and dirty filter for these messages by using `grep -v`. This wouldn't solve any underlying issue, but simply silence the error messages.

Skillmon

updmap error "Did you run mktexlsr" but I have already run it 42

texlive

joulev joulev

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CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

:D

निरंजन replying to samcarter

Hehe, yes! Lucky person :)

samcarter replying to निरंजन

With such a name, they had to make this pun :)

samcarter replying to barbara beeton

The confusion is totally understandable :P  
      
During my lunch break, I've read "From the president". Wow, I didn't realise the meeting was this close to being cancelled.

निरंजन replying to samcarter

I opened one of the documentations and it says S. Lurp. :smile: But seems like they wanted to use this as a pun

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

The name of their maintainer sounds funny https://ctan.org/author/slurp :P

barbara beeton replying to samcarter

Er, barbara has managed to delay updating the hyphenation exceptions list for overly long because of her confusion about how best to cope with the bad treatment of compound words by the canonical English patterns.  Hardly mind reading.

CarLaTeX

Packages in the spotlight: [measurebox](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/measurebox) and [stretchy](https://ctan.org/pkg/stretchy)

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

<3

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

Prof. van Duck thanks you!

samcarter replying to Skillmon

Thanks for the ping! I'm normally not active there, so I wouldn't have seen it.  
  
Not sure if my silly reason will help the user...

Skillmon

@samcarter not sure whether you're active there, but https://www.reddit.com/r/LaTeX/comments/1kh4su9/gotham_vs_moloch_as_a_beamer_theme/ looks like something you could help with.

samcarter

The new TUGboat is available: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb46-1/  
  
The title of the Duckboat article is brilliant!  
  
  
... also Barbara must be a mind reader - just the other day I read up a bit about hyphenation of chemical names and now she writes about this in her editorial comments.

samcarter

Clippy is back: https://felixrieseberg.github.io/clippy/

Skillmon replying to samcarter

I left a quick drawing there (I have no idea how to set up Ti*k*Z to yield something like that more or less automatically)

Skillmon replying to samcarter

I (roughly) understood. I'll draft something together using Gimp

Skillmon replying to samcarter

yes, agreed

samcarter

Package in the spotlight: [fontawesome6](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/fontawesome6)

samcarter replying to Skillmon

The links will also make sure that other users with the same problem will be able to find the solutions.

samcarter replying to topnush

I'm afraid not. Where is the other child supposed to be? Also the description of the 34 node is a totally unclear to me. Can you show a sketch how the result should look like?  
  
You probably want  `\usetikzlibrary{trees}`, which allows you to change distances/angles for each child, but I have no idea what result you are looking for.

Skillmon replying to Anonymous 13802

of course it's ok (the links @samcarter mentions is just to save volunteers of unnecessary work). We don't want to hold anybody hostage on this site, if we weren't of help and you reckon a bigger audience might or will it'd be stupid not to try.

topnush replying to samcarter

is my question now clearer ?

samcarter replying to Anonymous 13802

If you cross-post the same question on multiple sites, you should include links to all other versions of the question in every post, even in the original one.

Anonymous 13802

Is it ok to crosspost a question to SE after a few days if it hasn't had an answer?

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

<3

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

Happy Star Wars day to you too!

samcarter replying to निरंजन

Indeed!

Skillmon replying to CarLaTeX

May the 4th be with you!

CarLaTeX

Happy Star Wars day!

CarLaTeX replying to Ulrike Fischer

I didn't know either :D

निरंजन replying to samcarter

Hehehe, pig is having the time of its life!! :heart:

samcarter replying to Ulrike Fischer

... so your are not looking for the treasure of the Nibelungs in the Rhine?

Ulrike Fischer replying to samcarter

I had no idea what scuba means and `Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus` is then much more understandable ;-)

samcarter

In case anyone would like to watch the linotype movie, it seems there is a legit version on youtube: https://fosstodon.org/@onpaperwings@typo.social/114429413973976760

samcarter replying to निरंजन

Astronaut-Pig is also good at diving:  
  
![document2-1.png](/image?hash=4a0cb67e7328baeef51adbf8ee256a5e5e5efecd202c64757d93dd166b6e4662)

निरंजन replying to samcarter

That sounds interesting! :) But my intention was to push you towards creating Scuba Ti*k*Zlings :P

samcarter replying to निरंजन

How about a package for "Drawing schematic icons of Scuba diving gear in picture mode"? :P

निरंजन replying to samcarter

Or Ti*k*Z, GNU

Didn't know Scuba was an acronym though. LASER in TeX  packages is imaginable, but Scuba? Not sure.. :P

samcarter replying to Ulrike Fischer

(... unless the acronym is more widely know than the full term, e.g. laser, scuba... :P )

निरंजन replying to Ulrike Fischer

Corrected now.

निरंजन replying to Ulrike Fischer

My bad, I will ask CTAN people to change it on the CTAN page. Thanks for pointing it out. :)

Ulrike Fischer

@निरंजन  as I just saw that in the ctan anounces: `Support for using GFDL in LaTeX`.  Acronyms should never be used without explanation in  a title.

Skillmon replying to topnush

welcome back!

topnush replying to AnonymousRabbit

ginormous?

topnush

hello all!

samcarter replying to AnonymousRabbit

:thumbsup: Great idea!

AnonymousRabbit replying to samcarter

we could add three different formats. `huge`, `humongous`, and `giant`

samcarter replying to Qrr

Thanks a lot! The auto-bookpress is genius!

samcarter replying to निरंजन

oh, yes! Giant is a much better description!

Qrr replying to samcarter

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/rheinlandpfalz/swr-weltrekord-in-mainz-geglueckt-groesste-bibelseite-der-welt-gedruckt-100.html  
Here's a bit more informatio (in German) including a video.