Mrthfx

I have installed Latex 2016 on Debian Stretch (ruby 2.5 docker image) and I would like install packages from 2014 repository (ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2014/tlnet-final), but when I tried install something, I see this error:

/usr/bin/tlmgr: cannot download: download did not succeed: 

ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2014/tlnet-final/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512

Problem is, that new tlmgr not support md5 file and require sha512 file, but in repository isn't sha512 file. How can I solve it? I tried set no-checksums=1 in config file, but it doesn't help. I'm not sure if config file have correct location also I'm not sure if no-checksums=1 should help.

I tried these locations for config file:

/usr/local/share/texmf/texmf.cnf

/root/texmf/texmf.cnf

/root/.texlive2016/texmf-config

/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf





kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFSYSCONFIG

/etc/texmf



kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFCONFIG

/root/.texlive2016/texmf-config

My steps:

apt-get update

apt-get install -y texlive-base texlive-bibtex-extra

tlmgr init-usertree

tlmgr option repository ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2014/tlnet-final

tlmgr install babel-czech

Latex and tlmgr version:

pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (TeX Live 2016/Debian)

tlmgr revision 41476 (2016-06-18 02:45:25 +0200)

tlmgr using installation: /usr/share/texlive

TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2016

Thank you for any advice!

Edit:
Question isn't about upgrading TL, but using archived repository from newer version TL. So I disagree, that it is duplicated question. Question is how to use archived repository 2014 from 2016 TL. In tlmgr is possible set archived repository.

I think the answer to this turns out to be: in the historic folders, there seems to be an install-tl matching each version of Texlive, so just use that one.

For instance, if you want to install Texlive 2015, it is at:

• ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2015

If you browse those folders a bit, you will find the install-tl package here:

• ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2015/tlnet-final/install-tl-unx.tar.gz

So you can do:

$ wget ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2015/tlnet-final/install-tl-unx.tar.gz

...

$ tar xzvf install-tl-unx.tar.gz 

install-tl-20160405/

install-tl-20160405/readme-txt.dir/

install-tl-20160405/readme-txt.dir/README.SR

...

$ TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$(pwd)/texlive ./install-tl-20160405/install-tl --repository=ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2015/tlnet-final --force-arch=i386-linux

Overriding platform to i386-linux

Loading ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2015/tlnet-final/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb

Installing TeX Live 2015 from: ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2015/tlnet-final

Platform: i386-linux => 'GNU/Linux on Intel x86'       ### without force-arch: Platform: x86_64-linux => 'GNU/Linux on x86_64'

Distribution: net  (downloading)

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