Texlive issues, missing tlmgr command

[boredcollie]

I’m using tumbleweed and tex/latex for some papers I’m doing.
In most tutorial I found online there is a mention to this tlmgr command that allows to manage the tex system. For example:

tlmgr update --all

to update texlive.

I cannot find it in my installation. I 've also discovered the texconfig command but when I try to change the paper format to A4 I get:

/usr/bin/texconfig: line 799: tlmgr: command not found
/usr/bin/texconfig: line 649: tlmgr: command not found
/usr/bin/texconfig: line 1375: tlmgr: command not found
/usr/bin/texconfig: line 1235: tlmgr: command not found

There other old issues in this forum about tlmgr missing but seems like nobody found a solution.

What am I missing? Thanks.

[hui]

Here some explanations about the difference between native Texlive and Texlive provided by distributions:
https://www.tug.org/texlive/pkginstall.html

And
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477725

[john_hudson]

A complete TeXLive distribution comes to around 6GB. If instead you install kile or lyx from the openSUSE repos, you will get around 1½GB to which you can add if you need to. If you add the TeXLive openSUSE repo you will get the more recent updates to TeXLive rather than what was available when your release was put together.

[boredcollie]

Thanks, I was not aware of this difference; I thought it was a generic installation of texlive, with all commands including those of the native version.
I understand better now, thanks.

One more thing: I don’t know if what I’m saying makes sense, but is there a way, to refresh the tex cache or packages (apart from zypper)?

[john_hudson]

As I understand it tlmgr refreshes the generic installation. zypper up refreshes whatever packages you have downloaded with YaST or zypper from the openSUSE repos. In practice I find YaST very useful if you want to install a package which you have not installed as its search facility will find the package very easily.