[OS X TeX] Getting started with tlmgr

[Herbert Schulz]

On Dec 5, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Gary L. Gray wrote:

>
> On Dec 5, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Victor Ivrii wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Gary L. Gray <glgray at me.com> wrote:
>>>
>>
>>>
>>> I wonder if this is ftp versus http related?
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Probably not. I used ftp locations in the past but later decided to
>> stick with the ctan proper
>>
>> I suggest to run
>>
>> tlmgr list|grep "^i"|wc -l
>>
>> and if the answer is 1791 as for today you have all texlive goodies
>> you need installed
>
>
> I just finished running:
>
> sudo tlmgr update --all
>
> and then issued the command you show above and got:
>
> loon:Desktop gray$ tlmgr list|grep "^i"|wc -l
>    1790
>
> What am I missing?
>
> -- Gary

Howdy,

Since updating of CTAN servers is asynchronous it may take a day or  
two for the server you are attached to to get a particular update. You  
shouldn't have to worry about incompatible updates since dependency  
information is contained in updates. Of course if that information is  
wrong or you update a package that is not part of TeX Live (e.g.,  
biblatex) there may be a version incompatibility (I had that happen,  
for one day with biblatex).

Just to let you know, after doing an update just now I ran the command  
and got 1790 too.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)