<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dick and Guillermo, thank you for your reassuring replies!<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 18, 2023, at 1:55 PM, Richard Koch <koch@uoregon.edu> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Murray,<br><br>The problem occurred because tlmgr itself was updated. There are two ways<br>that such an update can be installed. The easy way is the command<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>sudo tlmgr update --self<br><br>But an even safer method, if tlmgr gets hopelessly mangled, is to update it<br>using a TUG script called update-tlmgr-latest.sh.<br><br>Since Adam Maxwell is a meticulous programmer, he selected the second method<br>to use in TeX Live Utility when a tlmgr update is required. <br><br>Unfortunately, it is now clear that update-tlmgr-latest.sh is broken on Macs.<br>This is being debugged by experts, and it may take a while to fix. Note that<br>there is nothing wrong in TLU; the bug is in a TUG script which TLU calls.<br><br>The command "sudo tlmgr update --self" ONLY UPDATES the tlmgr code.<br>It does not continue to update TeX Live. This command works fine currently.<br><br>Thus you can safely call <br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>sudo tlmgr update --self<br><br>After that call, TLU will work and you can continue to update as usual.<br><br>Dick <br><br><br>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>TeX FAQ: https://www.tug.org/mactex/faq/index.html<br>List Reminders and Etiquette: https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/TeX/<br>List Archives: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx<br> https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/<br>TeX on Mac OS X Website: https://www.tug.org/mactex/index.html<br>List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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