[OS X TeX] TLU critical update failure

[G. M.-S.]

Hi Murray.

You can do this:
sudo tlmgr update --self
which will not mess up anything, then launch TLU as usual.

HTH,

Guillermo

On Sat, 18 Nov 2023 at 19:30, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Nov 18, 2023, at 1:23 PM, Adam R. Maxwell via MacOSX-TeX <
> macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Nov 18, 2023, at 10:18 , Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> How can this be fixed? (Or should I be asking who should be fixing this on
> the server end?)
>
> The update-tlmgr-latest.sh script is currently broken on Macs, and the TeX
> Live team is investigating. If there's something you really need, you can
> update using command-line tlmgr.
>
> I hesitate to use tlmgr on command-line owing to the issue of
> user-specific vs. system-wide updating, especially with respect to fonts.
> Like many MacTeX users, my user-specific additions and modifications of
> pacakges and fonts are in ~/Library/texmf. Running the wrong flavor of some
> command -- is it mktexlsr? -- messes up the database of packages or fonts.
>
> (As I seem to recall -- but this is persistently murky to me -- it is
> either the difference between a user version of a command or a system
> version of that command, or else using sudo vs. not using sudo.)
>
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