installing a package as nonroot

[Norbert Preining]

On Sun, 12 Nov 2023, circumspect.readabilities830 at aceecat.org wrote:
> What I suspect is that the install command is not "pure" in the sense
> that it not only creates new files but also modifies existing files,
> such as (maybe?) logfiles, and the permissions dance I'd done didn't
> affect those.
> 
> Can you confirm tlmgr does such things, or perhaps point me to
> relevant docs or code?

Can you run the tlmgr command with -v -v and see what it is doing when
it fails?

Best

Norbert

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