How to install tlgpg

[Adam R. Maxwell]

> On Jan 21, 2024, at 13:42 , Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
> 
> However, Adam, I can't quite understand why you would be getting the
> error using the tlmgr from tlcritical (please check the version).

$ tlmgr --version
tlmgr revision 69327 (2024-01-07 12:10:51 +0100)
tlmgr using installation: /usr/local/texlive/2023basic
TeX Live (https://tug.org/texlive) version 2023

(installed a week or two ago to test the LWP stuff)

> Can
> you enable debugging? When updating tlgpg, you should see a message
> like:
> 
>   "Remote database does not contain the texlive-scripts package,
>    skipping version consistency check"

I suspect the last few lines are all you need, but just in case:

$ sudo /usr/bin/perl /Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr -v --machine-readable --repository https://preining.info/tlgpg/ --persistent-downloads install --reinstall tlgpg
D:appending to package log file: /usr/local/texlive/2023basic/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log
D:appending to command log file: /usr/local/texlive/2023basic/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr-commands.log
D:Setting env var HTTPS_CA_FILE to /usr/local/texlive/2023basic/tlpkg/installer/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt
D:tlmgr:main: ::tldownload_server hash:: {enabled:1,errorcount:0,initcount:1,ua:LWP::UserAgent=HASH(0x7fa557453aa8)}
D:setup_programs: preferring system versions
D:program df found in path
D:program curl found in path
D:program wget not usable from path
D:(unix) trying to set up wget, default /usr/local/texlive/2023basic/tlpkg/installer/wget/wget.universal-darwin, arg --version
D:TLUtils::setup_programs: curl on old darwin, final curl args: --cacert /usr/local/texlive/2023basic/tlpkg/installer/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt --user-agent texlive/curl --retry 4 --retry-delay 4 --connect-timeout 30 --fail --location --silent --output
D:program lz4 found in path
D:program gzip found in path
D:program xz found in path
D:Using checksum method digest::sha
D:Testing for gpg in gpg
D: ... gpg not ok! [gpg --version >/dev/null 2>&1]
D:Testing for gpg in gpg2
D: ... gpg not ok! [gpg2 --version >/dev/null 2>&1]
D:Testing for gpg in /usr/local/texlive/2023basic/tlpkg/installer/gpg/gpg.universal-darwin
D:tlmgr: No gpg found, verification implicitly requested, continuing without verification
start load https://preining.info/tlgpg/
D:TLPDB.pm: trying to initialize from https://preining.info/tlgpg//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
D:trying to download https://preining.info/tlgpg//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xz to /tmp/w02Bf2p7Lw/goZnR3gNmJ
D:persistent connection set up, trying to get https://preining.info/tlgpg//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xz (for /tmp/w02Bf2p7Lw/goZnR3gNmJ)
D:TLUtils::download_file: downloading using lwp succeeded
D:decompressing /tmp/w02Bf2p7Lw/goZnR3gNmJ to /tmp/w02Bf2p7Lw/oFDOH0z9BJ
D:TLUtils::system_pipe: calling "xz" -dcf < "/tmp/w02Bf2p7Lw/goZnR3gNmJ" > "/tmp/w02Bf2p7Lw/oFDOH0z9BJ"
D:TLUtils::system_pipe: removing /tmp/w02Bf2p7Lw/goZnR3gNmJ
D:found the uncompressed xz file
D:persistent connection set up, trying to get https://preining.info/tlgpg//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512 (for /tmp/w02Bf2p7Lw/T1QmEjDj2E)
D:TLUtils::download_file: downloading using lwp succeeded
D:gpg prog not defined, no checking of signatures
D:verify_checksum: returning -3 and no gpg available
D:/Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: TLPDB: no gpg available, continuing anyway!
D:Accepting a newer release as remote due to presence of release extension!
D:Remote database revision 23, texlive-scripts local revision 66584
fail load https://preining.info/tlgpg/

tlmgr: Remote database (rev 23) seems to be older than local (rev 66584 of texlive-scripts); please use different mirror or  wait a day or so.

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