[OS X TeX] TeX Live Utility 1.49 fails to update old TeXLive 2019 and leaves it unusable.

[George Tourlakis]

Hi all,


As I earlier communicated, I got TeX Live Utility 1.49 to work on my Big Sur laptop (following Richard’s advice).

However it fails to update my old TeXLive 2019 and leaves it unusable.

Compiling with the 2019 after the failed update halts with the error

> ! LaTeX Error: File ‘ifxetex.sty’ not found

I will hazard attaching a log file (generated by TLU)

Thanks!
George

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> On Jul 4, 2021, at 1:43 PM, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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