perl install-tl fails: Can't exec "mktexlsr": Permission denied at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 667
Philip Lists
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Tue Nov 16 14:34:37 CET 2021
Hello, I twice tried to install on Debian linux 11.1, using perl
install-tl retrieving from the internet.
Each time, after the download completed, it would give an error message:
running mktexlsr /mnt/data/texlive/2021/texmf-dist ...
Can't exec "mktexlsr": Permission denied at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 667
install-tl: command failed (statuse -1): mktexlsr
/mnt/data/texlive/2021/texmf-dist: Permission denied.
The permissions on
/mnt/data/texlive/2021/texmf-dist are drwxr-xr-x
/mnt/data/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/scripts/mktexlsr are -rwxr-xr-x. .
Googling finds some mktexlsr related installation failures, but I do
not see any with "permission denied".
Any suggestions?
Best regards,
Philip
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