@NorbertPreining: Ok, that's reasonable enough (though not clear from previous remarks; certainly, I see no reason to close this bug considering it is still present in Ubuntu).
If it helps anyone, this issue affected me on a machine which shouldn't have had `texlive-base' installed; something in the process of upgrading Ubuntu to 13.10 (from 13.04) created another instance of `tlmgr' in addition to the one present from a vanilla installation of texlive 2012. Purging texlive (by following the steps outlined in http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/95502/46339) and performing a clean install of vanilla texlive 2013 cleared the issue (as was to be expected, I suppose). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1242914 Title: tlmgr unable to set up TLPDB To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-base/+bug/1242914/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
