>|>  >|I get:
 >|>  >|
 >|>  >|$ tlmgr update m-tx
 >|>  >|(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
 >|>  >|Unknown directive ...containerchecksum
 >|>
 >|>|400c4de374d02934965b5488f37c1b052ade07c2acfae957c9846390b2b78315c6aed2b533a2271bbacabd77c40536b63973bd42e2686f4c6d25d1f4c5b4709e...
 >|>  >|, please fix it! at /usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm line
 >|>  >|210, <$retfh> line 6172.
 >|>  >|
 >|>  >|Unfortunately I have no idea what to do next.
 >|>
 >|> And I have no idea what you were trying to do. Have you
 >|> installed TeXLive 2018?
 >|
 >|I have an existing older TeXLive installation and was hoping to update
 >|only musixtex and friends.

The older texlives (pre-2018) are frozen and can't be updated.

 >|> Why would you be trying to update m-tx?
 >|
 >|Because I thought it would update all dependencies too.
 >|
 >|Oh well, I have been updating bleeding-edge MusiXTeX and PMX manually
 >|into $HOME/texmf since time immemorial while leaving the rest of TeX
 >|to Debian/Ubuntu, so the attempt was (a) ill-advised and (b)
 >|unnecessary.

And that is the right way to do it. Except note that tlmgr
is the TeXLive package manager, not the Debian/Ubuntu one.
If you have packages installed by the latter, use it to
update those packages.

Bob
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