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

[G. M.-S.]

(Sorry for misspelling your first name.)

On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 at 05:28, G. M.-S. <lists.gms at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi George,
>
> I am no specialist, but I would advise to reinstall MacTeX 2019 and update
> it as follows (especially if you have a fast internet connection).
> (Please bear with me if these instructions are too basic for you.)
>
> 1) Download mactex-20190508.pkg from
> http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/mactex/2019/
> (or another mirror from http://www.tug.org/mactex/faq/3-4.html).
>
> 2) Install it as usual.
>
> 3) If your version of TeX Live Utility is older than 1.49, download the
> last version of from
> https://amaxwell.github.io/tlutility/
> (direct link for current version 1.49:
> https://github.com/amaxwell/tlutility/releases/download/1.49/TeX.Live.Utility.app-1.49.zip
> ),
> unzip it and replace your old version with this one.
>
> 4) Open Tex Live Utility, then
>
> Configure > Change Default TeX Live Version… > TeX-Live 2019
>
> Configure > Manage Repositories > +
> ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2019/tlnet-final
> Use As Home
>
> etc.
>
> HTH,
>
> Guillermo
>
> On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 at 04:56, Adam R. Maxwell via MacOSX-TeX <
> macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 8, 2021, at 12:38 , George Tourlakis <gt at cse.yorku.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> I did not notice that the log was in two segments.
>>
>> I trust the following is complete.
>>
>> 2021-07-08 18:55:31 +0000 Notice tlu_ipctask[7175] Beginning download
>> and installation of packages
>> 2021-07-08 18:55:32 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[7175] TLPDB::_install_package:
>> unsupported container format xz
>>
>> 2021-07-08 19:30:53 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[7175] sh: fmtutil-sys:
>> command not found
>>
>> This is concerning: it looks like files are missing from the system, or
>> else the /Library/TeX/texbin symlink is broken and tlmgr can't find them.
>> This command
>>
>> $ ls /usr/local/texlive/2019/bin/x86_64-darwin/fmt*
>>
>> should show fmtutil and friends. This one
>>
>> $ ls /usr/local/texlive/2019/tlpkg/installer/xz
>>
>> should show an xz binary. Also,
>>
>> $ ls -L /Library/TeX/texbin
>>
>> should show a long list of executables.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Adam
>>
>
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