[OS X TeX] Problem with TeX Live Utility

[Herbert Schulz]

On Sep 6, 2009, at 9:13 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

> On Sep 6, 2009, at 7:09 AM, Alain Matthes wrote:
>
>> 2009-09-06 15:51:06 +0200 Notice -[TLMOperation main][10607]	 
>> Standard error from `/usr/texbin/tlmgr --machine-readable -- 
>> repository http://texlive.guiling.fr/ update --list`
>> Unknown option: repository
>> Usage:
>>   tlmgr [*option*]... *action* [*option*]... [*operand*]...
>
> Your version of tlmgr is too old.  The --repository option was added  
> some weeks ago.
>
> You have a couple of options:
>
> - update using the command line
> - update using the previous version of TeX Live Utility
>
> After tlmgr.infra is updated, you should be able to use the current  
> version of TLU to update any remaining packages.
>

Howdy,

I went through this too. The easiest thing to do is to download TLU  
0.74 from <http://code.google.com/p/mactlmgr/downloads/list> and run  
it once to update tlmgr to the latest version. From then on TLU 0.80  
will work properly.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)