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I've installed TeXLive 2014 in a local installation using the install-tl.sh method and selected the collection collection-texworks. I expected to be able to run the texworks binary after installation, but there's no such binary in /usr/local. Also, tlmgr reports it cannot find the binary.

What am I doing wrong?

⟫ tlmgr info texworks
package:     texworks
category:    TLCore
shortdesc:   Cross-platform friendly front end.
longdesc:    See http://tug.org/texworks for information and downloads. TeX Live includes executables only for Windows.
installed:   Yes
revision:    30136
tlmgr: cannot find depending packagetexworks.x86_64-linux
sizes:       doc: 5k, run: 14981k
relocatable: No
collection:  collection-texworks

⟫ sudo /usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-linux/tlmgr install texworks
tlmgr: package repository http://archive.cs.uu.nl/mirror/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet

(nothing more, exit status 0)

⟫ find /usr/local -type f -name "texworks"

(no output)

⟫ which texworks

(no output)

gertvdijk
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Read more carefully in the tlmgr info texworks output:

TeX Live includes executables only for Windows.

Use the PPA (https://launchpad.net/~texworks/+archive/ubuntu/stable) or the official Ubuntu packages.

The TeXWorks installation as installed by the Ubuntu packages use the Ubuntu TeXLive installation, not the locally installed ones in /usr/local. In order to change that, edit the preferences in TeXWorks and set the path to the TeXLive installation on top:

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gertvdijk
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  • This is a very helpful answer, but it was certainly not clear to me when I had the same problem that tlmgr info texworks was something I should type to help resolve the issue... – Adam L. Taylor Nov 23 '21 at 16:54