[OS X TeX] Getting started with tlmgr

Luis Vitorio Cargnini lvcargnini at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 09:52:42 EST 2008


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Le 08-12-05 à 09:40, Herbert Schulz a écrit :

>
> On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:51 PM, Gary L. Gray wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:48 PM, Gary L. Gray wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 4, 2008, at 7:54 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>>>
>>>> Howdy,
>>>>
>>>> As part of TeX Live 2008 (and therefore MacTeX 2008) there is a  
>>>> CLI program called tlmgr which can be used to update the TeX  
>>>> distribution. Unfortunately the first version of tlmgr, as  
>>>> supplied in the present MacTeX 2008, has some bugs and needs to  
>>>> be updated before using it to update the distribution.
>>>>
>>>> Attached is a short document to get you started with tlmgr as  
>>>> supplied in MacTeX 2008 and BasicTeX 2008. It gives instructions  
>>>> for setting up and updating tlmgr and then gives a bit of  
>>>> information on the simplest way to get all available updates to  
>>>> the distribution. There is more information on use found in a  
>>>> document that came with MacTeX 2008 in /Applications/TeX/ 
>>>> Utilities/.
>>>>
>>>> <TlmgrMacTeX.pdf>
>>>
>>> Thanks Herb. When I ran the first command:
>>>
>>> sudo tlmgr option location http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008
>>>
>>> I got:
>>>
>>> sudo: tlmgr: command not found
>>>
>>> which is very odd since I have messed with the command before,  
>>> though it has been some weeks. I never did tell it to install  
>>> anything, but it did exist.
>>
>> OK, now really bad stuff is happening. When I issue:
>>
>> loon:Dynamics gray$ pdflatex Main.tex
>>
>> I get:
>>
>> -bash: pdflatex: command not found
>>
>> which is definitely new.
>>
>> Can someone guide me on how to recover all my TeX related commands?
>>
>> -- Gary
>
> Howdy,
>
> Now I feel terrible... I don't know what happened on your system but  
> it doesn't look very good.
>
> You may try following the instructions for disaster recovery by  
> downloading and running the .sh script at <http://www.tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html 
> >. Outside of that it may take a re-install of MacTeX 2008.  Did you  
> get the TUG DVD? Then you can re-install from that.
>
> I've been reviewing the instructions and may have a solution to the  
> problem although it shouldn't happen any more since things have  
> settled down and the servers should be in synch by now.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)

Fellow please re-install everything from zero, update the tlmgr if  
something goes wrong, after updating the tlmgr don't panic, it happen  
to me, the solution is in a past message in this thread look for it (I  
had the problem).

That's all.

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