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Updating tlmgr itself gives error about wrong repository
I've recently upgraded macOS to 13.1. When upgrading TeXLive, the error indicated I need to fix my repository. How?
$ tlmgr update --self
/Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: TLPDB::from_file could not ...
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tlmgr: action not allowed in system mode: ... (texlive)
I made a fresh install of texlive using homebrew on a macbook that have sat unused for about a year. I removed all previous tex distributions I found, both for the (sole) user and systemwide.
Now I am ...
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Updating tlmgr on macOS Big Sur
I installed macOS Big Sur (11.1) on my MacBook Pro as well as BasicTeX and I am trying to update tlmgr by running sudo tlmgr update --self but an error occurs. I guess the main message is that only ...
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tlgmr error: First directive needs to be 'name'…
I asked this question on stackoverflow first (see here), buy asking her too.
I am getting the following error on various tlmgr related commands, such as:
| => tlmgr list
First directive needs to ...
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Why did a full TeXLive 2016 install on macOS Sierra not include Tk for `tlmgr --gui`?
I have a clean, full install of TeXLive 2016 on macOS Sierra on a new laptop.
I discovered that tlmgr --gui wasn't working, saying it needed perl-tk. Which, I'm ok with in theory, but going to the ...
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