[OS X TeX] Announce: MacTeX-2014 is available for download

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jun 18, 2014, at 6:55 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

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> On Jun 18, 2014, at 5:00 AM, Simon Spiegel <simon at simifilm.ch> wrote:
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>> On 17.06.2014, at 17:39, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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>>> Howdy,
>>> 
>>> MacTeX-2014 is now available through many CTAN repositories. The easiest way to get it is to go to <http://www.tug.org/mactex/>, which has a mirror link that should download from a repository reasonable close to your location.
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>>> Information about changes to TeX Live for 2014 can be found at <http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#news>
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>>> WARNING: It may take up to a week for most of the smaller repositories to replace MacTeX-2013 with MacTeX-2014. Until they do you MIGHT download MacTeX-2013 by mistake. This will be apparent when running the installer because the very first information displayed by the installer will will be titled MacTeX-2013. Exit the installer and wait a week.
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>>> You can determine if a particular repository has the 2014 release by going directly to that site. You can find the MacTeX associated packages at systems/mac/mactex. The mirror link points to MacTeX.pkg, but on the sites this link should point to mactex20140525.pkg.
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>>> If you get error messages when installing, check the md5 sum at <http://www.tug.org/mactex/downloading.html>. If your sum does not agree with the listed sum, download again.
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>>> There are 2014 versions of MacTeX-2014, BasicTeX-2014, MacTeX-Additions-2014.
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>> Thanks for the information. I’m not quite sure yet about the proper way to go from 2014-pretest to 2014 final. I updated the server in Tex Live Utility and I already get the updates. So the TL part works. But what about the MacTeX-specific part like the prefs pane, ghostscript et al.? The GUI applications are not really a problem since they can be updated independently.
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> Howdy,
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> Assuming you have Mavericks, does the installed version of the Preference Pane have and extra button labelled texdistmgr? If so you have the latest version. Otherwise it might be wise to re-install with the released installer.
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> Good Luck,
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> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)

Howdy,

As far as ghostscript is concerned running

gs --version

in Terminal should return

9.10

and you're ok.

There is a newer version of ghostscript but it has some major bugs when used with TeX so version 9.10 is the one distributed with MacTeX0-2014.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)