[OS X TeX] How force TL Utility to recognize user-installed package without updating from CTAN

[Herbert Voss]

Am 03.02.26 um 20:58 schrieb Murray Eisenberg:
> I want to try out v0.7 of package lua-unicode-math, but the version 
> currently available in TL Utility is v0.6.
>
> If I put v0.7 of the lua-unicode-math directory into in my local 
> ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex tree after running "lualatex 
> lua-unicode-math.ins" there, how do I get that version to supercede 
> the older version 
> at /usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-dist/tex/lualatex/lua-unicode-math ?

put the new one into

/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/lualatex/lua-unicode-math

then run texhash in a terminal and delete this local version if TL has a new
lua-unicode-math installes.

with

kpsewhich -a lua-unicode-math.sty

you can list all installed packages with that name.

Herbert



>
> My understanding is that this will happen automatically the next time 
> TL Utility updates packages, but there are currently no such updates 
> available.
>
> (I want to be careful not to run any command that will mess up my 
> configuration, and there are a bunch of very old pieces of advice on 
> installing packages that, as I recall, will indeed mess things up, 
> e.g., with respect to finding local fonts in ~/Library/texmf .)
>
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