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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 18 Nov 2023, at 23:47, Calum Mackay <calum.mackay@cdmnet.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Thanks Richard,<br><br>One slight concern…<br><br>The first time I ran it, that produced the following, and TLU still called out the need for a critical update.<br><br>However, running it a second time, immediately after, worked fine. TLU is now happily updating regular pkgs.<br><br>Just a problem with one of the mirrors, perhaps?<br><br>thanks very much,<br><br>best wishes,<br>calum.<br><br><br>mbp2018 $ sudo tlmgr update --self<br>/Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: TLPDB::from_file could not initialize from: https://eu.mirrors.cicku.me/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb<br>/Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: Maybe the repository setting should be changed.<br>/Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: More info: https://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html<br><br><br>On 18/11/2023 6:55 pm, Richard Koch wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Murray,<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><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>sudo tlmgr update --self<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>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>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>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>Thus you can safely call<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>sudo tlmgr update --self<br>After that call, TLU will work and you can continue to update as usual.<br>Dick<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></blockquote><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></body></html>