TeX Live and MacTeX ⇒ tlmgr error in TexLive 2010

[AleCes]

Something that just came into my mind: When you are doing a fresh install of TL2010, did you removed the folder ~/.texlive2010 before installing?

Yeah, of course that was what I meant when I said I'd performed a fresh install.

[sommerfee]

OK, as far as point 3 is concerned, did you leave out the package texinfo as recommended by TUG?

I have just enabled the option "Create symlinks to standard directories" (so I did not have to adjust any system paths) and have not touched the other options.

(On my Debian Squeeze system I have disabled all language options except English, French, and German.)

[AleCes]

OK, have you selected the full package?

[sommerfee]

OK, have you selected the full package?

If this is the default one, yes. If not, no.

Sorry for joking, but I did not care (since this was only a test installation which I did in the background), I really just enabled the option "Create symlinks to standard directories", and started the installation, that's all.

[AleCes]

Mmh... I'm 99% sure full-package is the default option, but anyway if you install texinfo, the question remains open.
I appreciate you've done very much for me, though.
P.S.
The problem revolves around texlive-docindex:

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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

But this package is reported as installed according to tlmgr, while texinfo is not (I've excluded it during installation). Are the two somehow related?

[sommerfee]

but anyway if you install texinfo, the question remains open.

Just to make sure that there is no misunderstanding: I have installed the Debian texinfo package (on my Debian Squeeze system), not the TeXlive2010 one. And it seems that this package was already installed on my system before I started the TeXlive2010 installation since I haven't installed it knowingly and it has not be installed with TeXworks. (When I try to remove the texinfo package the system does not complain about broken dependencies, so I assume that the Debian Squeeze installation has already installed the texinfo package.)

(No idea about texinfo on the Ubuntu 10.10 system, will take a look tomorrow and report.)

Have you already tried to install TL2010 on a fresh Ubuntu or Debian system, e.g. inside a freshly created virtual machine?

[AleCes]

Have you already tried to install TL2010 on a fresh Ubuntu or Debian system, e.g. inside a freshly created virtual machine?

No, I'll try with a virtual machine.
Anyhow, if texlive-docindex is not affected by the update, no error shows up.

[sommerfee]

Addendum:

(No idea about texinfo on the Ubuntu 10.10 system, will take a look tomorrow and report.)

On my virtual Ubuntu 10.10 system texinfo is not installed. So I assume the texinfo package has nothing to do with the problems you have.

[AleCes]

On my virtual Ubuntu 10.10 system texinfo is not installed. So I assume the texinfo package has nothing to do with the problems you have.

You mean it's not installed as per tlmgr or as per Software Center? Furthermore, could you take a look at the status of texlive-docindex in tlmgr?
Thank you.

[sommerfee]

You mean it's not installed as per tlmgr or as per Software Center?

I must confess that I forgot to look into tlmgr, so I just did: On my Debian system texinfo is installed with the debian AND the TeXlive package manager (but I haven't noticed any problems so far because of this). On my Ubuntu one it is only installed with the TeXlive package manager.

Furthermore, could you take a look at the status of texlive-docindex in tlmgr?

texlive-docindex is installed there, on both systems. I just updated it (on my Debian system) without problems or error messages.