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<div>Hi - just to follow up, I've checked the supported systems page, and found that 10.8.5 isn't supported, so I suppose this is why TeX Live isn't working.</div>
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<div>I probably would have noticed this before downloading and installing if it was mentioned on the download page (i.e., https://www.tug.org/mactex/mactex-download.html, which is what Google took me to), rather than just the homepage.</div>
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<div>To avoid many others like me sending you unnecessary emails, a note in the error message would probably help too.</div>
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<div>Thanks for all the work on MacTeX!</div>
<div class="unibox-signature">Simon Robinson</div>
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<div>On Jul 17, 2017, at 10:42 AM, Simon Robinson <simonrob@gmail.com> wrote:</div>
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<div style="font-family: -apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">Hi - I've just installed MacTeX 2017 and tried to run TeX Live. At the prompt to enable authentication, I get the following error message, so am reporting it as requested. I'm using OS X 10.8.5:</div>
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<div>2017-07-17 09:40:22 +0000 Notice -[TLMOperation main][93637]<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>/usr/texbin/tlmgr: Initialization failed (in setup_unix_one):</div>
<div>/usr/texbin/tlmgr: could not find a usable wget.</div>
<div>/usr/texbin/tlmgr: Please install wget and try again.</div>
<div>/usr/texbin/tlmgr: Initialization failed (in setup_unix_one):</div>
<div>/usr/texbin/tlmgr: could not find a usable xzdec.</div>
<div>/usr/texbin/tlmgr: Please install xzdec and try again.</div>
<div>tlmgr: Couldn't set up the necessary programs.</div>
<div>Installation of packages is not supported.</div>
<div>Please report to texlive@tug.org.</div>
<div>Use of uninitialized value $r in split at /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 3976.</div>
<div>tlmgr: Cannot find main repository, you have to tag one as main!</div>
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<div style="font-family: -apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">Regards,</div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">Simon Robinson</div>
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