[OS X TeX] Re: [tex-live] tlmgr failure

[Ralph Martin]

On 19 Nov 2008, at 2:19:08PM, Norbert Preining wrote:
> do you have the following at the TOP of your
> 	texlive.tlpdb
> (to be found in ROOT/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb):
>
> name 00texlive-installation.config
> category TLCore
> depend platform:x86_64-linux
> depend location:/var/www/norbert/tlnet/2008
> depend opt_paper:a4
> depend opt_create_formats:0
> depend opt_create_symlinks:0
> depend opt_sys_bin:/usr/local/bin
> depend opt_sys_info:/usr/local/info
> depend opt_sys_man:/usr/local/man
> depend opt_install_docfiles:1
> depend opt_install_srcfiles:1
> depend available_architectures:x86_64-linux

More or less, appropriate to macos x: it starts

name 00texlive-installation.config
category TLCore
depend platform:universal-darwin
depend location:ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008
depend opt_paper:letter
depend opt_create_formats:1
depend opt_create_symlinks:0
depend opt_sys_bin:/usr/local/bin
depend opt_sys_info:/usr/local/info
depend opt_sys_man:/usr/local/man
depend opt_install_docfiles:1
depend opt_install_srcfiles:1
depend available_architectures:universal-darwin

(I dont know why it mentions letter paper, as I certainly requested a4  
when I first set it up!
Even after I say
sudo tlmgr paper a4
it still says letter. But this is another issue...)

Best wishes

Ralph
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