Issues upgrading TexLive

[Tom7320]

Steps to Reproduce

Hi everyone!

Yesterday I installed Overleaf Community Edition and upgraded TexLive to a full installation. During the process described here, I had a couple of minor issues which I will explain here.

The main reason was, that TexLive 2021 was released a couple of days ago. Hence, you have to make sure to use the "historic" 2020 TexLive version. This is what I did:

$ bin/docker-compose exec sharelatex  /bin/bash
# tlmgr option repository ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2020/tlnet-final
# tlmgr update --self
# tlmgr install scheme-full
# tlmgr update --all
# exit

Within the docker-compose.override.yml file I had to add a version: '2.2' line to make it work.

Since I am neither an Overleaf, Docker nor a TexLive expert, I just wanted to let you know, that just following the docs was not enough to install successfully. Maybe it would be enough to specify the documentation or to find a more sophisticated way of installing full TexLive?! I am willing to help but - as I said - I am not an expert at all...

Thx a lot for Overleaf and the toolkit which makes things a lot easier! :smiley:

Regards

Thorsten

Docker version 18.09.8, build bfed4f5 docker-compose version 1.24.0, build 0aa59064

[JuneKelly]

@emcsween does any of this sound familiar? I'm leaning toward updating the documentation, if we can pin down a process that works with the most recent texlive.

[JuneKelly]

Hi @Tom7320, we've updated the documentation on upgrading texlive: https://github.com/overleaf/toolkit/blob/master/doc/ce-upgrading-texlive.md

Does this look reasonable? Do you think there are any other points that need to be covered? Thanks!

[Tom7320]

Thx a lot! I'm on vacation right now. I'll check it out ASAP!