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

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Oct 21, 2020, at 11:47 AM, 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> wrote:
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>>> On Oct 12, 2020, at 15:20, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> How can one include packages from http://contrib.texlive.info for installation through TeXLive Utility? (Just temporarily change the repository to http://contrib.texlive.info/current tlcontrib ?)
>>> 
>>> If so, I presume that will install packages from contrib.texlive.info into the main TeXLive tree (inside /usr/local/texlive/2020)
>>> 
>>> Should one really be putting packages from 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 tlcontrib
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>> Hope this helps
>> 
>> —Ettore
>> 
> 
> I executed 
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> 	tlmgr repository add 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 home page indicated that’s needed.)
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Howdy,

Yes, you need to add `sudo` since tlmgr writes to a configuration file which is owned by root.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)