TeX Live 2008 - bugs and updates

Please email bug reports or other comments to the tex-live mailing list. See the TeX Live home page for general information and links.

• In 2008, the installer and the package manager can operate over the Internet. If you plan to make any updates after your initial installation, please update tlmgr first, by itself. Doing so will save you considerable trouble.
• The network operations use the auto-redirecting mirror.ctan.org by default. So, if you have problems downloading, please include the actual url which was used in your report, otherwise it's unlikely that anything can be done. You can also explicitly choose a particular CTAN mirror by using the --location option to the programs.
• The original pdftex binaries for sparc-solaris and powerpc-aix unfortunately may crash when pdf images are included. New binaries have been installed in the repository, and you can install them with tlmgr update pdftex (after updating tlmgr itself). Binaries on other systems, such as i386-linux, universal-darwin, and win32, do not exhibit this problem.
• The x86_64-linux binaries are linked against libXau.so. Some systems, typically Red Hat-based, don't have this shared library. Alternative x86_64-linux binaries with libXau statically linked are available (thanks to Zdenek Wagner), although texindy is not included and there may be XeTeX issues with system fonts when used on newer systems, due to an older fontconfig library being linked.
• ConTeXt MkIV with the LuaTeX engine needs separate configuration. Because this is still undergoing rapid development, it did not make sense to try to incorporate it into the TeX Live installer.
• Windows-specific problems are described separately, including fc-cache failures, and the GUI installer not opening in Windows 2000.

Newsworthy changes in this release.

Bug archives for the previous release and earlier years are still online.