[OS X TeX] Waterloo problem

Vic Norton vic at norton.name
Tue Jun 23 16:10:39 EDT 2015


Thanks, Herb. Now I see I was looking at a 2012 listing of MacTex mirrors.
   http://www.tug.org/mactex/2012/mirrorpage.html

On Jun 23, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Herb Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> I just checked and Waterloo is NOT on the list of active CTAN repositories. 
> 
> Good Luck,
> Herb Schulz
> 
>> On Jun 23, 2015, at 2:06 PM, Vic Norton <vic at norton.name> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 23, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> On Jun 18, 2015, at 4:49 PM, Vic Norton <vic at norton.name> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I tried downloading the new MacTeX package from the Waterloo mirror
>>>> http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/CTAN/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX.pkg
>>>> a couple of times. The download was successful both times, but the
>>>> installation failed right away.
>>>> 
>>>> Then I downloaded the MacTeX package from
>>>> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX.pkg
>>>> I don't know what mirror the package came from, but I had no problem
>>>> installing it.
>>>> 
>>>> Is the Waterloo package busted? Maybe someone else could try it.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Vic
>>> 
>>> Howdy,
>>> 
>>> Did you check the md5 sum on the downloads as suggested in the `Installation Errors' section on the MacTeX download page, <http://www.tug.org/mactex/mactex-download.html>?
>>> 
>>> Good Luck,
>>> 
>>> Herb Schulz
>>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>> 
>> Thanks for the recommendation, Herb. I downloaded the MacTeX package from Waterloo again. The md5 sum was not anything like the tug.org sum:
>> 
>> http://tug.org/cgi-bin/mactex-download/MacTeX.pkg
>> bf579a512d31253d828591fdb3644dca
>> http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/CTAN/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX.pkg
>> 31342416bb2399efc5b73c84ba11a874
>> 
>> I have no idea how to get in touch with the appropriate people in Waterloo, but their MacTeX package is no good.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Vic

 


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