Tinytex: Missing package. "Remote repository newer than local"

[ronammar]

During knitting, I get the following error:

tlmgr search --file --global '/lineno.sty'
tlmgr: Remote repository is newer than local (2017 < 2018)
Cross release updates are only supported with
  update-tlmgr-latest(.sh/.exe) --update
Please see https://tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html for details.
! LaTeX Error: File `lineno.sty' not found.

Following the maintenance instructions on https://yihui.name/tinytex/ I observe the following on the terminal.

$ tlmgr update --self --all
tlmgr: Remote repository is newer than local (2017 < 2018)
Cross release updates are only supported with
  update-tlmgr-latest(.sh/.exe) --update
Please see https://tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html for details.

How can TinyTex be updated?

[ronammar]

NOTE: resolved by running the following in R:

install.packages(c('tinytex', 'rmarkdown'))
tinytex::install_tinytex(force = T)

[yihui]

You can reinstall TinyTeX as well as the packages you previously installed with:

devtools::install_github('yihui/tinytex')
tinytex::reinstall_tinytex()

[vargonis]

I am not an R user. What should I do to solve this issue?

[yihui]

@vargonis Uninstall TinyTeX and reinstall it: https://yihui.name/tinytex/

[vargonis]

@yihui OK, thanks. Will I lose the packages that I have already installed?

[yihui]

Good question. The answer is yes, but it is relatively easy to retrieve the list of package names that you have installed:

tlmgr info --list --only-installed --data name

Those names with the architecture name should be removed (e.g., tetex.x86_64-darwin should just be tetex). Copy this list, turn line breaks into spaces, and use tlmgr install to install all of them after you reinstall a fresh copy of TinyTeX.

BTW, that is what tinytex::reinstall_tinytex() does by default (it will reinstall the previously installed LaTeX packages).

[vargonis]

Thanks, it worked (forced me to learn some elementary command line stuff though). Keep up with the good work, tinytex is great! Something like reinstall_tinytex() for non-R users would be very nice. For what it's worth, would like to mention that I also had to re-create, in my /bin directory, a symbolic link to a latexmk command that I found in ~/.TinyTex/bin/x86_64-linux.

[yihui]

@vargonis To create symbolic links, you just need to run tlmgr path add (this is automatically done for R users). Only LaTeX packages that contain executables require this, such as latexmk.

I have added FAQ 13 to address this issue of upgrading TeX Live: https://yihui.name/tinytex/faq/