Comment 3 for bug 1048994

Hi everyone,

two remarks only

On Di, 11 Sep 2012, Apport retracing service wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 987096 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987096

No, this is not a duplicated.

At the OP:

On Di, 11 Sep 2012, John John Doe wrote:
> I am running TeX Live 2012 on Ubuntu Precise. For the installation I

You are running non Debian/Ubuntu packges but installed upstream.

> followed this tutorial (http://weblog.avp-ptr.de/20120710/how-to-
> manually-install-tex-live-2012/). Yesterday, I updated the packages

Which is about as unclear as possible.

> $ sudo tlmgr --gui

Which is not a Debian/Ubuntu program.

> texconfig: unknown option `paperconf' given as argument for `texconfig dvips'

Well, you have messed up system installation from Ubuntu and your
private TeX Live upstream installation, and broke it. Not surprising
if you don't know what you are doing.

It seems to me that you have added the TeX Live path (.../2012/x64_64-linux)
to the *FRONT* of the PATH of *root* (or all users).

Well, that will break... since upstream texconfig does not understand
the paperconf, this is a Debian/Ubuntu thing.

But this is as expected, you shouldn't do this for root ...

Assume for a moment that we in TeX Live ship a binary called 'ls'
that destroys your partition table and deletes your user data etc?
Now then you let it run as root .... and ther we go.

PLease someone closes this bug, it is a misconfiguration done by the user,
and has nothing to do with either Debuan/Ubuntu, nor with TeX Live
upstream. THere is nothing we can do on any of these sides.

Best wishes

Norbert
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