[OS X TeX] How use http://contrib.texlive.info with TeXLive Utility

[Ettore Aldrovandi]

> On Oct 21, 2020, at 12:47, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 12 Oct2020, at 6:08 PM, Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at math.fsu.edu <mailto:ealdrov at math.fsu.edu>> wrote:
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>>> On Oct 12, 2020, at 15:20, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>> How can one include packages from http://contrib.texlive.info <http://contrib.texlive.info/> for installation through TeXLive Utility? (Just temporarily change the repository to http://contrib.texlive.info/current <http://contrib.texlive.info/current> tlcontrib ?)
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>>> If so, I presume that will install packages from contrib.texlive.info <http://contrib.texlive.info/> into the main TeXLive tree (inside /usr/local/texlive/2020)
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>>> Should one really be putting packages from contrib.texlive.info <http://contrib.texlive.info/> into the main TeXLive tree, or would it be better to put them in the local texmf tree (on my system, ~/Library/texmf)?
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>> You add the repository with
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>> 	tlmgr repository add http://contrib.texlive.info/current <http://contrib.texlive.info/current> tlcontrib
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>> Hope this helps
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>> —Ettore
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> I executed 
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> 	tlmgr repository add http://contrib.texlive.info/current <http://contrib.texlive.info/current> tlcontrib
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> but get error:
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> 	/Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: open(>/usr/local/texlive/2020/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.tmp) failed: Permission denied at /usr/local/texlive/2020/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPDB.pm line 592.
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> Even though my account is an admin account, do I need to use sudo here? (Neither you nor the contrib.texlive.info <http://contrib.texlive.info/> home page indicated that’s needed.)

Yes, you are right, I think you do need sudo, here. My apologies for the omission. (It turns out I have installed TeX Live in a directory I have chown’ed to myself, so I do not run sudo, as matter of routine. But I have forgotten that stock installations don’t.) More surprising is that the home page for contrib omits this.

—Ettore

Ettore Aldrovandi
Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
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