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

[Denis Bitouzé]

Le 05/02/21 à 19h51, John Collins a écrit :

> Hi,

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).

Ah, good to know!

> 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.

The should be the trick: thanks!
-- 
Denis