TeX Live and MacTeX ⇒ tlmgr error in TexLive 2010

[AleCes]

Up! No one else has tried to install TexLive 2010 on Ubuntu instead of the standard Debian package?

[sommerfee]

No one else has tried to install TexLive 2010 on Ubuntu instead of the standard Debian package?

I have (on Debian Squeeze instead of Ubuntu, but this shouldn't make a difference in this case), but I simply do not have such problems. I have installed TL2010, followed the instuctions on the TeXlive site for "Vanilla TeX Live on Debian", point 2 (even if they refer to TL2009 the instructions are still valid), and have installed TeXworks afterwards.

[AleCes]

Wonderful! I had shied away from this for fear of aggravating the situation but since you do confirm me it works, I'll try it.
Thank you very much, I'll let you know.

[AleCes]

OK, I performed a fresh install of TexLive 2010 via tl-install in order to clear the ground from previous mistakes/bugs. After this, following the instructions of TUG, I installed the three packages from the Software Center: tex-common, texinfo and lmodern and finally, I built the package texlive-common and then notified ATP through equivs.
Now when I try to update packages via tlmgr,I don't get anymore errors concerning pdfLatex but rather this new one:

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[6/12, 02:08/02:42] update: texlive-docindex [177k] (21022 -> 21051) ... done
/usr/local/bin/tlmgr: (make_container xits.r20217.tar.xz) texmf-dist/doc/fonts/xits/build.py does not exist
/usr/local/bin/tlmgr: (make_container xits.r20217.tar.xz) texmf-dist/doc/fonts/xits/fontcoverage.py does not exist

I guess it has something to do with texinfo which TUG instructed me not to install from tl-install, but I must have screwed something somewhere.

[sommerfee]

After this, following the instructions of TUG, I installed the three packages from the Software Center: tex-common, texinfo and lmodern

What happens if you don't do this? (BTW: Why did you do this? As far as I have understand the instructions installation of these packages should do no harm but are not required. And therefore I didn't have installed them.)

[AleCes]

Tell APT about your local installation using equivs (see below) so that it doesn't try to install Debian's TeX Live packages as dependencies to other packages such as AucTeX or Kile. The only Debian packages installed should be tex-common, texinfo and perhaps lmodern (if you want those fonts to be registered system-wide and not just for TeX).

If you use TexWorks, or some other Tex editors like Kile, Lyx etc..., the Software Center will probably have installed them automatically. They are a basic stub providing access to all other Tex functions.

[sommerfee]

If you use TexWorks, or some other Tex editors like Kile, Lyx etc..., the Software Center will probably have installed them automatically.

I just took a look and you are right, the texinfo package is actually installed on my system. (But neither tex-common nor lmodern are.)

[AleCes]

The key here is texinfo, not the other two packages. Have you ever experienced such an error while performing an update via tlmgr?
Please take a close look at error messages.
Thank you.

[sommerfee]

Have you ever experienced such an error while performing an update via tlmgr?

No. "tlmgr update --all" is working fine here, never got an error message.

[AleCes]

Damn it! Can't understand why it happens to me.