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Cannot run this program neither with nor without sudo

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I tried to run this program (texlive package manager):

tlmgr install

and got this error:

You don't have permission to change the installation in any way,

specifically, the directory /usr/local/texlive/2012/tlpkg/ is not writable.

Please run this program as administrator, or contact your local admin.

So I tried:

sudo tlmgr install

and got:

sudo: tlmgr: command not found

Why doesn't sudo find the program? And what can I do about it?

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answered 2 Years ago suitman · Accepted Answer

Sudo seems to change your environment. You can try to run the command with full path:

sudo /usr/bin/tlmgr install

Also worth a try is to run sudo with -E:

sudo -E tlmgr install