installing a package as nonroot

Norbert Preining norbert at preining.info
Tue Nov 14 02:35:26 CET 2023


On Mon, 13 Nov 2023, circumspect.readabilities830 at aceecat.org wrote:
> Yes, thanks. The immediate problem is the directory
> 
> /opt/texlive/2023/tlpkg/tlobj/
> 
> which is owned by root. It is the only one owned by root in the
> texlive tree. How might that happen?

How: You did run tlmgr as root during an update, and that created the
tlpobj directory.

There might be others, tlpkg/backups comes to my mind.

Please, check your own directories for permissions when doing these
kind of special things. Thanks

Norbert

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