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

[Richard Koch]

Folks,

Let me chime in here. A year ago, Apple released the Big Sur beta to Apple Developers. I installed the beta on Monday evening, the first day of WWDC. I used MacTeX to install TeX on the beta, and that worked fine. But then I tried the Unix installer and that failed. I soon discovered that the install code contained lines which rejected software with version 10.11, but on Monday of WWDC Apple called the new system 10.11. I wrote Karl Berry, and he immediately fixed this piece so 10.11 was legal. Thus long before Big Sur was actually released, tlmgr and the Unix install stuff were fixed in TeX Live 2020 for Big Sur.

I wasn't paying attention to this thread earlier, but trying to make TeX Live 2019 work on Big Sur is a fools errand.

TeX Live 2020 should work on an Arm machine running Big Sur, since the first such machines were released last November and certainly ran TeX Live 2020 fine.

Richard Koch


> On Jul 10, 2021, at 12:16 PM, Adam R. Maxwell via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
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>> On Jul 10, 2021, at 10:24 , George Tourlakis <gt at cse.yorku.ca> wrote:
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>> I think there is something wrong with the phases of the moon, or we have here a nondeterministic piece of software (tlmgr).
> 
> Ah, here we go: I may have missed this in your first log. It looks like tlmgr can't find its binaries, and is confused about the platform it's on. Is this an M1 Mac? 
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> I think TL 2019 was frozen before Big Sur came along with different versioning and hardware. Maybe I should just keep TLU from updating a Big Sur and/or ARM Mac with TL 2019 or earlier.
> 
> 2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]	/Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: only MacOSX is supported, not darwin 11.4  (from sw_vers -productVersion: 11.4)
> 2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]	D:setup_programs: preferring system versions
> 2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]	D:program curl found in path
> 2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]	D:program wget not usable from path
> 2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]	D:(unix) trying to set up wget, default /usr/local/texlive/2019/tlpkg/installer/wget/wget.unknown-unknown, arg --version
> 2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]	D:program lz4 not usable from path
> 2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]	D:(unix) trying to set up lz4, default /usr/local/texlive/2019/tlpkg/installer/lz4/lz4.unknown-unknown, arg --version
> 2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]	D:program gzip found in path
> 2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]	D:program xz not usable from path
> 2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]	D:(unix) trying to set up xz, default /usr/local/texlive/2019/tlpkg/installer/xz/xz.unknown-unknown, arg --version
> 2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]	+ :
> 
> thanks,
> Adam
> 
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