<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="">TeX Live 2019 worked [before the update attempt(s) (on Big Sur)] and also worked<div class="">on the Big Sur machine when I copied there the 2019-tree that I <u class="">updated</u> to the “final version” on a Mojave Apple. So I do have the final distribution TeX Live 2019 working on Big Sur.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Now TLMGR, can be safely concluded that it, does not work on Big Sur save for its switching (from distr. tree to distr. tree) function. This function so far works for me.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">George<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 10, 2021, at 4:15 PM, Richard Koch <<a href="mailto:koch@uoregon.edu" class="">koch@uoregon.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; 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="">I wasn't paying attention to this thread earlier, but trying to make TeX Live 2019 work on Big Sur is a fools errand.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; 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=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>