[OS X TeX] TeX Live Utility: is the tlmgr an alternative?

[John Collins]

Hi,

On 2/5/21 4:42 PM, Denis Bitouzé wrote:
> 
> In order to update the TeX packages, I used to advise the tlmgr (via the
> command line) instead of the TeX Live Utility but, recently, I was told
> by a PhD student that:
> 
>    ┌────
>    │ sudo tlmgr update --self --all
>    └────
> 
> does work any more. Since I can't test by myself, I'm asking here :)

This definitely works for me.  I've got the command running right now, on 
TeXLive 2020 running under macOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra).

There's one thing that might cause an unwary user to have a problem.  Sudo 
needs to be run from an administrator user account.  It won't work from an 
ordinary non-administrative user account, and the error message is not very 
informative.

John Collins