<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>(Sorry for misspelling your first name.)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 at 05:28, G. M.-S. <<a href="mailto:lists.gms@gmail.com">lists.gms@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>Hi George,</div><div><br></div><div>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>(Please bear with me if these instructions are too basic for you.)<br></div><div><br></div><div>1) Download mactex-20190508.pkg from</div><div><a href="http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/mactex/2019/" target="_blank">http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/mactex/2019/</a><br></div><div>(or another mirror from <a href="http://www.tug.org/mactex/faq/3-4.html" target="_blank">http://www.tug.org/mactex/faq/3-4.html</a>).<br></div><div><br></div><div>2) Install it as usual.</div><div><br></div><div>3) If your version of TeX Live Utility is older than 1.49, download the last version of from</div><div></div><div><a href="https://amaxwell.github.io/tlutility/" target="_blank">https://amaxwell.github.io/tlutility/</a><br></div><div><div>(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" target="_blank">https://github.com/amaxwell/tlutility/releases/download/1.49/TeX.Live.Utility.app-1.49.zip</a>),<br></div><div></div></div><div>unzip it and replace your old version with this one.<br></div><div><br></div><div>4) Open Tex Live Utility, then</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div>Configure > Change Default TeX Live Version… > TeX-Live 2019<br><br>Configure > Manage Repositories > +<br><a href="ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2019/tlnet-final" target="_blank">ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2019/tlnet-final</a><br>Use As Home<div><br></div></div>etc.<div><br></div><div>HTH,</div><div><br></div><div>Guillermo<br><div><br><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" target="_blank">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><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 8, 2021, at 12:38 , George Tourlakis <<a href="mailto:gt@cse.yorku.ca" target="_blank">gt@cse.yorku.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div>Hi Adam,<div><br></div><div>I did not notice that the log was in two segments.</div><div><br></div><div>I trust the following is complete.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><div>2021-07-08 18:55:31 +0000 Notice tlu_ipctask[7175]<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Beginning download and installation of packages</div><div>2021-07-08 18:55:32 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[7175]<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>TLPDB::_install_package: unsupported container format xz</div><div><br></div><div><div>2021-07-08 19:30:53 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[7175]<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>sh: fmtutil-sys: command not found</div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">$ ls /usr/local/texlive/2019/bin/x86_64-darwin/fmt*</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>should show fmtutil and friends. This one</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">$ 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)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">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)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">$ 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)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">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)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">thanks,</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Adam</span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div>
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