<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:16px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap:break-word"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:16px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">Hi I’ve been trying to install MacTex on a (temporary) Mac that I’m currently using, but nearly every link that I try on CTAN to the package appears broken (404 not found)? I had the same problem last week when I was upgrading from 2015 to 2016 on my main Mac (unfortunately that Mac is in the shop after it’s main board died so I’m just setting up my temporary Mac environment and can’t retrieve the original package I downloaded).</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:16px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:16px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">E.g. a direct link on a mirror here - <a href="http://download.nus.edu.sg/mirror/ctan/systems/mac/mactex/">http://download.nus.edu.sg/mirror/ctan/systems/mac/mactex/</a> when I select the MacTeX.pkg link on that page, it goes 404.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:16px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:16px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">And this is true of any link I try from <a href="http://www.tug.org/mactex/downloading.html">http://www.tug.org/mactex/downloading.html</a></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:16px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:16px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">(update: I eventually got it from biblio OK - <a href="http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/CTAN/systems/mac/mactex/">http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/CTAN/systems/mac/mactex/</a> )</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:16px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:16px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">But this issue may be occurring for other users less savvy than me who don’t have the skills to randomly trying different mirrors until they hit one that works.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:16px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:16px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">Regards</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:16px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">Scot</div><div class="bloop_container"><div class="bloop_frame"> </div></div><br><div id="bloop_sign_1477556450284762880" class="bloop_sign"></div></body></html>