<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Guillermo,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 8, 2021, at 11:28 PM, G. M.-S. <<a href="mailto:lists.gms@gmail.com" class="">lists.gms@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div class="">Hi Georges,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am no specialist, but I would advise to reinstall MacTeX 2019 and update it as follows (especially if you have a fast internet connection).</div><div class="">(Please bear with me if these instructions are too basic for you.)<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1) Download mactex-20190508.pkg from</div><div class=""><a href="http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/mactex/2019/" class="">http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/mactex/2019/</a><br class=""></div><div class="">(or another mirror from <a href="http://www.tug.org/mactex/faq/3-4.html" class="">http://www.tug.org/mactex/faq/3-4.html</a>).<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2) Install it as usual.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I had a shortcut. I have a backup of all my TeX Live trees from 2007 to 2021.</div><div>So I tried the update twice. Same outcome. Failed, AND clobbered the tree.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3) If your version of TeX Live Utility is older than 1.49, download the last version of from</div><div class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://amaxwell.github.io/tlutility/" class="">https://amaxwell.github.io/tlutility/</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">(direct link for current version 1.49: <a href="https://github.com/amaxwell/tlutility/releases/download/1.49/TeX.Live.Utility.app-1.49.zip" class="">https://github.com/amaxwell/tlutility/releases/download/1.49/TeX.Live.Utility.app-1.49.zip</a>),<br class=""></div><div class=""></div></div><div class="">unzip it and replace your old version with this one.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote>That’s what I have</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">4) Open Tex Live Utility, then</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div>Configure > Change Default TeX Live Version… > TeX-Live 2019<br class=""><br class="">Configure > Manage Repositories > +<br class=""><a href="ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2019/tlnet-final" class="">ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2019/tlnet-final</a><br class="">Use As Home</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Yep, that’s the link.</div><div>I have done all this twice, BUT…</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>George</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>etc.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">HTH,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Guillermo<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 at 04:56, Adam R. Maxwell via MacOSX-TeX <<a href="mailto:macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu" class="">macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 8, 2021, at 12:38 , George Tourlakis <<a href="mailto:gt@cse.yorku.ca" target="_blank" class="">gt@cse.yorku.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">Hi Adam,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I did not notice that the log was in two segments.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I trust the following is complete.</div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class="">2021-07-08 18:55:31 +0000 Notice tlu_ipctask[7175]<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>Beginning download and installation of packages</div><div class="">2021-07-08 18:55:32 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[7175]<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>TLPDB::_install_package: unsupported container format xz</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">2021-07-08 19:30:53 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[7175]<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>sh: fmtutil-sys: command not found</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is concerning: it looks like files are missing from the system, or else the /Library/TeX/texbin symlink is broken and tlmgr can't find them. This command</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">$ ls /usr/local/texlive/2019/bin/x86_64-darwin/fmt*</span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">should show fmtutil and friends. This one</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">$ ls /usr/local/texlive/2019/tlpkg/installer/xz</span></div></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">should show an xz binary. Also,</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">$ ls -L /Library/TeX/texbin</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">should show a long list of executables.</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">thanks,</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Adam</span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""> </div></div></div></div></div>
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