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-rwxr-xr-xMaster/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
index fcd92f3c224..eed8e75f1a3 100755
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
@@ -2520,7 +2520,7 @@ sub auto_remove_install_force_packages {
#
# for some packages (texworks, psview, ...) we only have w32 packages
# in the repository, but it is possible that alternative repositories
- # ship binaries for some platforms (like texworks for linux on tlcontrib)
+ # ship binaries for some platforms (like texworks for GNU/Linux on tlcontrib)
# currently updating from tlnet will remove these alternative .ARCH
# packages because they are not listed anywhere locally, so they
# are considered as disappearing.
@@ -9292,11 +9292,13 @@ L<https://search.cpan.org/search?query=perl%2Ftk>. For Unix-based
systems Perl/Tk (as well as Perl of course) has to be installed
outside of TL. L<https://tug.org/texlive/distro.html#perltk> has a
list of invocations for some distros. For Windows the necessary
-modules are no longer shipped within TeX Live.
+modules are no longer shipped within TeX Live, so you'll have to have an
+external Perl available that includes them.
-We are talking here about the GUI built into tlmgr itself, not about
-the other tlmgr GUIs: tlshell, tlcockpit (Java-based) and, for Mac
-OS only, TeX Live Utility. These are invoked as separate programs.
+We are talking here about the GUI built into tlmgr itself, not about the
+other tlmgr GUIs, which are: tlshell (Tcl/Tk-based), tlcockpit
+(Java-based) and, only on Macs, TeX Live Utility. These are invoked as
+separate programs.
The GUI mode of tlmgr is started with the invocation C<tlmgr gui>;
assuming Tk is loadable, the graphical user interface will be shown.