[OS X TeX] How to update MacTex

[Ulrich Groh]

How about tlmgr --gui? It claims that I don't have perl/TK installed,  
which is correct. How to install this on a Mac?
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Herzliche Grüße / Best regards
Ulrich Groh
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Am 02.10.2008 um 23:48 schrieb Victor Ivrii:

> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Jung-Tsung Shen <jushen at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> On 10/2/08, Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Jung-Tsung Shen <jushen at gmail.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> I keep wondering why the user friendly Mac does not have a (La)TeX
>>>> package manager as that in MikTeX yet? Are there serious technical
>>>> barrier? The feature will be very useful to the beginners  
>>>> (including
>>>> me).
>>>
>>>
>>> Surprise, surprise! It has now! If you have MacTeX2008 type t tlmgr
>>> --help in terminal
>>> and updates are coming faster than to MikTeX!
>>
>> Thanks for the information. I was happy with my then current setup so
>> I did not upgrade. Now there's enough incentives ... :-) Since I
>> haven't installed yet, so the question: is this tlmgr only updates  
>> the
>> existing packages, or it does grab something that is being called but
>> not installed?
>
> 1) MacTeX2008 is a HUGE step in comparison with 2007, both are based
> on the corresponding versions of TL. Standard install installs all the
> packages (and binaries) in TL2008;
> 2) tlmgr update --all updates everything with the exception of
> packages belonging to collections which are not installed; new
> packages added to the installed collections are installed; this
> applies to binaries
> 3) However tlmgr   does not watch after tex run (nor tries to grab
> missing packages).
> 4) Let makes clear: neither tlmgr nor mpm (MikTeX package manager)
> take from CTAN packages as submitted; these packages must be repacked
> in the special way. It usually takes few days
> 5) TL does not include some packages (may be they just missed some but
> after initial requests there these animals became almost extinct or
> due to licensing). The same is true for MikTex. You need to do it
> manually
> HTH
>
>
>
>
>>
>> JT
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