[OS X TeX] For those doing a MacTeX-2020 pretest.
Murray Eisenberg
murrayeisenberg at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 12:28:33 EDT 2020
> On 8 Apr2020, at 12:18 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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>> On Apr 8, 2020, at 10:15 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Should one delete a previous TL 2020 folder /usr/local/texlive/2020 first, before running the new mactex-20200407.pkg?
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> That would be the most desirable method but, I believe (don't take my word for this) the Installer app is smart enough to only install changes. You might not even have to re-run `updmap-user` since the distribution is for the same year as before.
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> TLU will have no changes from the pretest repository and may lead to errors if you try to use a regular repository.
To be safe, I renamed /usr/local/texlive/2020 to something else, then ran the new mactex-20200407.pkg.
I did _not)_have to re-run `updmap-user’ !
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