[OS X TeX] TeX Live Utility not updating?

Paolo Ghirardato paolo.ghirardato at gmail.com
Fri Aug 3 23:16:48 EDT 2012


> OK.  Next step in Terminal, also all on one line:
> 
> /usr/texbin/tlmgr update --list --machine-readable --repository http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet

Here is the output (the list of packages is abridged):

location-url    http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet
tlmgr: package repository http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet
total-bytes     147014751
end-of-header
ocgtools        d       20780   -       -       -       -       -
Asana-Math      u       24343   27228   468899  -       -       -
achemso u       26274   27172   366864  -       -       -
….
collection-science      u       25104   27182   622     -       -       -
end-of-updates

> 
> This should work, according to the TLU log that you posted; you can list updates, just not install them, correct?  

Yes, that is correct.

> If that works, pick a single package and try this, e.g.,
> 
> sudo /usr/texbin/tlmgr update beebe --machine-readable --persistent-downloads --repository http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet
> 
> (where beebe is the name of one of the packages that is available for update; any package will do here).
> 

Here is the output (beebe was indeed one package to be updated):

MacDuck-4:tmp paolo$ sudo /usr/texbin/tlmgr update beebe --machine-readable --persistent-downloads --repository http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet
Password:
location-url    http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet
tlmgr: package repository http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet
total-bytes     349666
end-of-header
beebe   u       26726   27123   349666  ??:??   ??:??   -
end-of-updates
tlmgr: package log updated at /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log
running mktexlsr ...
done running mktexlsr.
running mtxrun --generate ...
done running mtxrun --generate.

paolo




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