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tlmgr check — Check the consistency of a TeX Live installation. More information: <https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc

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Problem

How to use the tlmgr check command: Check the consistency of a TeX Live installation. More information: <https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/tlmgr.html#check-option...-depends-executes-files-runfiles-texmfdbs-all>.

Solution

tlmgr check — Check the consistency of a TeX Live installation. More information: <https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/tlmgr.html#check-option...-depends-executes-files-runfiles-texmfdbs-all>.

Check the consistency of the whole TeX Live installation:

tlmgr check all

Check the consistency of the whole TeX Live information in verbose mode:

tlmgr check all -v

Check for missing dependencies:

tlmgr check depends

Check if all TeX Live executables are present:

tlmgr check executes

Check if all files listed in the local TLPDB are present:

tlmgr check files

Check for duplicate filenames in the runfiles sections:

tlmgr check runfiles

Code Snippets

Check the consistency of the whole TeX Live installation

tlmgr check all

Check the consistency of the whole TeX Live information in verbose mode

tlmgr check all -v

Check for missing dependencies

tlmgr check depends

Check if all TeX Live executables are present

tlmgr check executes

Check if all files listed in the local TLPDB are present

tlmgr check files

Context

tldr-pages: common/tlmgr check

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