[OS X TeX] Announce: MacTeX-2021 Released

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Apr 9, 2021, at 5:43 PM, Martin Wilhelm Leidig <listwatch at moss.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> Am 21-04-05 um 21.57 schrieb Juergen Fenn <jfenn at gmx.net>:
>> 
>> It took 2:49:36 to download, unpack and install all 4000 or so
>> packages
> 
> 
> Here about a third of that:
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> …
> Installing [4166/4166, time/total: 01:00:19/01:00:19]: zztex [147k]
> Time used for installing the packages: 1:00:20
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> 
> Running mktexlsr etc. just took about a minute afterwards, TeXDist-2021 a few seconds.
> 
> Thanks again!
> 

Howdy,

I assume you're talking about the unix install rather than the MacTeX-2021 install. Especially after you mention the TeXDist-2021 install.

I don't know if you are a TUG member but you eventually get a DVD which has the install on it. Still takes longer than MacTeX-2021 directly but you're not on line all that time.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com