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

Denis Bitouzé denis.bitouze at univ-littoral.fr
Sat Feb 6 06:07:35 EST 2021


Le 05/02/21 à 21h58, Elliott Roper a écrit :

>> On 5 Feb 2021, at 21:42, Denis Bitouzé <denis.bitouze at univ-littoral.fr> wrote:
>> 
>> AFAIK, the TeX Live Utility is not embedded any more with the MacTeX
>> distribution. I know it can be installed independently but that's not
>> very handy.
>
> Well, it is not that bad. It lives in Applications/TeX which is
> distributed with each year's MacTeX.  It works well, and keeps itself
> up-to-date as part of using it to keep all the packages fresh.

I agree it's a nice application. The problem is, it is not included with
MacTeX 2020.

But, as said by others, the problem will be fixed for 2021. But, anyway,
for my LaTeX course, I prefer give the `tlmgr` solution which is common
to Linux, macOS and Windows :)
-- 
Denis


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