<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 Adam,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I enlisted sufficient strength of will to do this a 3rd time this time on my desktop (running Mojave — on purpose, not out of laziness).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I started at 12:30pm and finished just now!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It succeeded, and I can only guess it might be because the updater asked THIS TIME that I install two “critical” updates before I do anything else.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">2021-07-09 16:31:30 +0000 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController _handleListUpdatesFinishedNotification:][5300]<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Critical updates detected: (</div><div class=""> "texlive.infra",</div><div class=""> "texlive.infra.x86_64-darwin"</div><div class="">)</div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""><div>What did the installer do differently other than advising the above?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>1) Unlike previous attempts it did not bypass not installed packeages. It added them.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>(likely because of 1. )</div><div><br class=""></div><div>2) It took a lot of time.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Cheers</div><div>George</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 9, 2021, at 11:23 AM, 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><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 9, 2021, at 08:12 , George Tourlakis <<a href="mailto:gt@cse.yorku.ca" class="">gt@cse.yorku.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><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 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Yep, that’s the link.</span></div><div class="">I have done all this twice, BUT…</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">You should not need to do this. TeX Live Utility knows about the historic repositories from 2008-2020 and will select the correct one for you.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If this is repeatable, it would help to have the diagnostics for xz etc. while the tree is in a non-functioning state, although there's not much I can do if tlmgr is misbehaving.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thanks,</div><div class="">Adam</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br class="">TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq" class="">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br class="">List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/TeX/" class="">https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/TeX/</a><br class="">List Archives: <a href="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx" class="">http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx</a><br class=""> <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/" class="">https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/</a><br class="">TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/" class="">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br class="">List Info: <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex" class="">https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>