Common Commands

A temporary email right from your terminal written in POSIX sh.

Manage packages and configuration options of an existing TeX Live installation.Some subcommands such as paper have their own usage documentation.

Update TeX Live packages.

Start an interactive shell of the native TeX Live manager.

Search for TeX Live packages using (Perl) regular expressions.

Restore package backups created with tlmgr backup.The default backup directory is specified by the backupdir option, and can be obtained with tlmgr option.

Manage repositories of a TeX Live installation.

Uninstall TeX Live packages.By default, removed packages will be backed up to ./tlpkg/backups under the TL installation directory.

Recreate the TeX Live package database.This command has a lack of documentation and should be used with caution.

Manage TeX Live platforms.

The pinning action manages the pinning file.

Add or remove symlinks for TeX Live executables, man pages and info pages.This command has to be re-run for files added in the future.

Manage paper size options of an TeX Live installation.

TeX Live settings manager.

Manage GPG keys used to verify TeX Live databases.

Install TeX Live packages.

Show information about TeX Live packages.

Start a graphical user interface for tlmgr.tlmgr gui depends on the package perl-tk, which has to be installed manually.

Remake configuration files from information stored locally.

Dump the TeX Live package database.