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requires disabling of latex-auto-install with global texlive

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Bug description

Hi
I've installed quarto-cli on arch linux. I have a global texlive installation (dona via pacman).
When trying to render a project (I had no biber installed) reported an error that tlmgr update failed with no additional context.
after a bit of research turns out that tlmgr update requires root to run (which is expected) but I'd appreciate more context.

Steps to reproduce

example file: https://github.com/habemus-python/quarto-agh-thesis

  • uninstall biber
  • clone the repo
  • run quarto render thesis.ipynb
  • will see error message telling that tlmgr update failed
  • add latex-auto-install: false in the ipynb file
  • rerun render command
  • quarto will tell us that biber is missing
Actual behavior

error message with no additional context appears

Expected behavior

logs should report (at least in verbose mode) which packages are missing (or at least what set of packages is going to be passed to tlmgr)

Your environment
  • OS: Arch Linux
Quarto check output
[~ (0) ]$ quarto check
Quarto 1.9.37
[✓] Checking environment information...
      Quarto cache location: /home/mszeptuch/.cache/quarto
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.8.3: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.87.0: OK
      Deno version 2.4.5: OK
      Typst version 0.14.2: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.9.37
      Path: /opt/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK
      TinyTeX: (not installed)
      Chromium: (not installed)
      Chrome Headless Shell: (not installed)
      VeraPDF: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
      Using: Installation From Path
      Path: /usr/bin
      Version: undefined

[✓] Checking Chrome Headless....................OK
      Chrome:  (not detected)

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking R installation...........(None)

      Unable to locate an installed version of R.
      Install R from https://cloud.r-project.org/

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.14.4
      Path: /usr/bin/python3
      Jupyter: 5.9.1
      Kernels: python3

[✓] Checking Jupyter engine render....OK

[✓] Checking Julia installation...
[~ (0) ]$ 

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