[OS X TeX] MacTeX problem with Beamer in Sonoma

[Kannan Moudgalya]

On 01/06/24 6:11 am, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>> On May 31, 2024, at 5:32 PM, Kannan Moudgalya<kannan at iitb.ac.in>  wrote:
>>
>> On 31/05/24 11:02 pm, Herbert Schulz via MacOSX-TeX wrote:
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> Notice that the path to the files is /Users/kannan/Library/texmf/tex/latex/... so it is using files from your personal texmf folder rather than the one from your distribution. That file is probably out of date so please remove it.
>>>
>>> Good Luck,
>>>
>>> Herb Schulz
>>> herbs2 at mac.com
>>>
>>>
>> Hi,
>> That worked like a charm.  Thank you very much.  I tried everything else earlier, and spent quite a bit of time, trying to figure out, but couldn't.
>> Perhaps this can be mentioned in a read me file - to remove the personal files.  This will especially be useful to people who have been using LaTeX for many years, and have possible gone senile :)
>> Regards,
>> Kannan
> Howdy,
>
> The real answer is to never put `updated' packages in your personal tree. It's meant for personal packages, etc., that are not part of TeX-Live. Any time I put something from CTAN in that tree I place it in a special directory that I check when I update TeX-Live to make sure it hasn't been added to TeX-Live.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> herbs2 at mac.com
>
>
Hi Herb,

That is precisely what I did.  These are all packages that were not 
included in the standard distribution at one time, listings, and 
ccicons, for example (I did not create any package of my own).  Perhaps 
I should have kept them at some other location. The main issue is that I 
did not check whether these got included in the standard distribution, 
and if so, remove them.  I will follow your advice from now on.

Regards,
Kannan
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