[OS X TeX] Does TeX Live Utility 1.49 not work on Big Sur?

[Richard Koch]

PS: I just tried Local TeX and it recognizes 2021 on my machine and seems to work fine. Nevertheless, I recommend removing it.

In my original message there was an error. To get back to the usual behavior, configure all TeX apps to look at

	/Library/TeX/texbin

LocalTeX will have configured them to look at

	~/Library/TeX/LocalTeX/texbin

This may be expanded by the various apps; for instance my TeXShop now says

	/Users/koch/Library/TeX/LocalTeX/texbin

However, I'll soon follow my own advice and disable LocalTeX.

Richard Koch


> On Jul 4, 2021, at 10:26 AM, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
> 
> George,
> 
> Your problem is LocalTeX, which I wrote, and which I now regret. TLU works fine on all systems I have, certainly including Big Sur.
> 
> Push "Configure for Original Pane" in the LocalTeX pane to return to using the standard methods so TLU will work again. 
> 
> Or you can do this by hand. TeXShop and other apps by default look for TeX in /Library/TeX/texbin. Local TeX reconfigures them to look in /Library/TeX/LocalTeX/texbin instead.
> 
> Actually Local TeX will work if you read the instructions carefully. But it is so easy to forget and lose those instructions. 
> 
> Richard Koch
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jul 4, 2021, at 10:13 AM, George Tourlakis <gt at cse.yorku.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I ask the above question (subject line) due to the following observations
>> 
>> I updated my laptop (BigSur) and Desk top (Mojave) to TeXLive 2021.
>> 
>> 1) On my desktop the Utility (also 1.49) works to update packages (tried 2019 and 2020) and the switch between TeX Live distributions works
>> 
>> 2) On my laptop the Utility acknowledges switching (say from 2019 to 2020 or 2020 to 2021) but it does NOT switch. The previous version is still active as determined by a LaTeX run.
>> 
>> 3) On the laptop I tried updating 2020. Said it cannot do it because current version is 2021. I tried update of 2019. It started (tried twice) and it “failed” both times. Several errors. When I try compile a program under 2019 it is now unusable: “missing ifxetex.sty” it complains.
>> 
>> 4) I cannot run 2021 on the laptop. The Utility thinks I am in 2020 (it lists 2021 but this is not real; 2020 is). 
>> 
>> 5) Unfortunately I cannot use the old “LocalTeX” app to switch to 2021. This version is not even acknowledged but it is there all right. All I got is a broken TeX Utility…or something else is broken.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Any fix? I did not do anything differently in the laptop than I did in the desktop (except for the different OS X in the two).
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> George
>> 
>>> On Jun 28, 2021, at 6:32 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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