[OS X TeX] tlmgr and proxies

[Michael Murray]

On 11 Sep 2008, at 5:51 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 11.09.2008 um 04:16 schrieb Michael Murray:
>
>> The tex live wgetrc says it is OK to put your own in $HOME/.wgetrc.
>
> It's better when you make this file readable (and writable) only for  
> you:
>
> 	chmod 600 ~/.wgetrc
>>
>> [mateng041:~] mmurray% tlmgr --gui
>> Cannot read any package from http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb 
>> , seems not to be a TLPDB!
>
>
> This can also be a problem from too many users trying to connect.  
> Recently there were means described to make wget report what it's  
> doing and why it's failing. You could also tell tlmgr to connect to  
> a particular (Australian) CTAN mirror ...
>
> --

Ah OK.  I've now seen tlmgr working on someone else's machine at work  
so must be my setup somehow.

Thanks for the advice.

Regards - Michael

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