[OS X TeX] Waterloo problem

Herb Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Tue Jun 23 15:16:55 EDT 2015


Howdy,

I just checked and Waterloo is NOT on the list of active CTAN repositories. 

Good Luck,
Herb Schulz

> On Jun 23, 2015, at 2:06 PM, Vic Norton <vic at norton.name> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Jun 23, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> 
>>> On Jun 18, 2015, at 4:49 PM, Vic Norton <vic at norton.name> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I tried downloading the new MacTeX package from the Waterloo mirror
>>> http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/CTAN/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX.pkg
>>> a couple of times. The download was successful both times, but the
>>> installation failed right away.
>>> 
>>> Then I downloaded the MacTeX package from
>>> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX.pkg
>>> I don't know what mirror the package came from, but I had no problem
>>> installing it.
>>> 
>>> Is the Waterloo package busted? Maybe someone else could try it.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Vic
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> Did you check the md5 sum on the downloads as suggested in the `Installation Errors' section on the MacTeX download page, <http://www.tug.org/mactex/mactex-download.html>?
>> 
>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
> Thanks for the recommendation, Herb. I downloaded the MacTeX package from Waterloo again. The md5 sum was not anything like the tug.org sum:
> 
> http://tug.org/cgi-bin/mactex-download/MacTeX.pkg
> bf579a512d31253d828591fdb3644dca
> http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/CTAN/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX.pkg
> 31342416bb2399efc5b73c84ba11a874
> 
> I have no idea how to get in touch with the appropriate people in Waterloo, but their MacTeX package is no good.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vic
> 
> 
> 
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