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

[Elliott Roper]

> On 6 Feb 2021, at 11:27, Denis Bitouzé <denis.bitouze at univ-littoral.fr> wrote:
> 
> Le 06/02/21 à 12h12, Denis Bitouzé a écrit :
> 
>>> 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!
> 
> Well, sorry for my ignorance:
> 
> - Does it mean the user has to quit the session and to log to a new one
>  as an administrator?
> - Or is it possible, in a non-administrative user session, to launch
>  a terminal as an administrator?
> - Or is it possible, in a non-administrative user session and in
>  a terminal open as an non-administrative user, to switch as an
>  administrative user (sort of `su` in Linux context)?
> 
su works in macOS. But you don't need any sudo or tlmgr to solve your original problem.

Your Mac user students simply run TeX Live Utility like an ordinary Mac Application. As Richard Koch explained earlier, there were app signing and notarizing procedures introduced by Apple which prevented TeX Live Utility (and Richard's own TeXShop) from being packaged and notarized as part of the MacTeX 2020 distribution kit. They were (and are) sneaked onto each user's Mac during installation of MacTeX 2020, so it appears to the ordinary user that TeX Live Utility is part of MacTeX 2020.

TeX Live Utility may be found in a sub-folder called TeX in Aplications. Also inside that sub-folder is another called Docs and Utilities. There is a  more precise and detailed description of what goes where and why in READ ME FIRST.pdf in that sub-folder.


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