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

[Richard Koch]

Elliott Roper,

I appreciate this explanation, which is clearly from someone with a "Macintosh persuasion". Thanks.

However, the details aren't quite correct. TeXShop has been signed with a hardened runtime and notarized from the moment Apple required that, so TeXShop was indeed installed by MacTeX 2020. However, there is no way a notarized installer could "sneak unnotarized applications on each user's Mac." TeX Live Utility and LaTeXiT were usually there after installation because they remained from a previous installation. Brand new users had to download them separately. This problem goes away in 2021.

Richard Koch

> On Feb 6, 2021, at 4:26 AM, Elliott Roper <elliott at yrl.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 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.