[tex-live] TL2011 pretest issue

Adam R. Maxwell amaxwell at mac.com
Sun Jun 19 18:27:15 CEST 2011


On Jun 19, 2011, at 05:43 , Francesco Clemente wrote:

> I've got a (not sure) problem with texlive 2011. I'm using MacTeX on MacOS 10.6.7 and when I try to update tlmgr via TeXLive utility it appear on the log the following errors:

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> Another strange thing is that it does not ask user's password anymore before installing new packages. So, is this a permissions problem?

Yes, this is a permission problem, but I'll need to see the full log output from it.  What version of TeX Live Utility are you using?  Versions prior to 0.91 did not do a sufficient permissions check.

> By the way, the option "install packages for all users" in TeXLive Utility is set to yes.

That is not related to this problem, and you should generally leave it checked.

thanks,
Adam



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