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kurokirasama
Asked: 2020-06-25 17:32:55 +0800 CST

I got an error when trying to install a latex package trough tlmgr on ubuntu 20.04, verify_checksum: -5

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I installed texlive on ubuntu 20.04 with:

sudo apt -y install texlive-latex-extra texlive-extra-utils texlive-font-utils

when trying to install a latex package (any) i got:

/usr/bin/tlmgr: unexpected return value from verify_checksum: -5

any ideas?

EDIT: Hello, i install packages with tlmgr install package_name. tlmgr installs when installing latex... Output of dpkg -S $(which tlmgr)

texlive-base: /usr/bin/tlmgr

Output of apt-cache policy texlive-base:

texlive-base:
  Installed: 2019.20200218-1
  Candidate: 2019.20200218-1
  Version table:
 *** 2019.20200218-1 500
        500 http://cl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://cl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Output of tlmgr --version:

tlmgr revision 53568 (2020-01-27 19:20:16 +0100)
tlmgr using installation: /usr/share/texlive
TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2019
texlive 20.04

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Two moments here:

    1. According to this Q&A on StackExchange - the TuG GPG keys are expired, so you have to add --verify-repo=none to the command, like below:

      tlmgr --verify-repo=none install beamer

      Also please note that tlmgr will show the warning:

      tlmgr: Local TeX Live (2019) is older than remote repository (2020).

      so some additional actions are required.

    2. Personally I prefer to install using deb-packages from the distro. You can use such method as a workaround. For the beamer package the correct deb-package name may be obtained from packages.ubuntu.com while searching for beamer.cls. So you have to install single package:

      sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-recommended
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  2. tlmgr: Local TeX Live (2019) is older than remote repository (2020). This error is solved changing the right repository for TexLive 2019.

    1. Type this commands in a Terminal to change de default repository
    tlmgr repository add tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2019/tlnet-final
tlmgr repository list
tlmgr repository remove mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet 
tlmgr option repository tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2019/tlnet-final
    1. Install the LaTeX package you want using this:
    tlmgr --verify-repo=none install beamer

    in this example I installed beamer package succesfully using the --verify-repo=none parameter.

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