[OS X TeX] TeX Live Utility/tlmr problem

Sun Nov 1 16:56:03 CET 2009

On Nov 1, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

>
> On Oct 31, 2009, at 11:39 PM, Alessandro Languasco wrote:
>
>> sh-3.2# tlmgr update --all
>> tlmgr: package repository http://ftp.cstug.cz/pub/tex/tlnet/
>> /usr/local/texlive/2009/tlpkg/installer/xz/xzdec.universal-darwin:  
>> (stdin): File format not recognized
>> First directive needs to be 'name', not <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-// 
>> W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd 
>> "> at /usr/local/texlive/2009/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm line 123,  
>> <RETFH> line 1.
>>
>> Trying again tlmgr update --self gives now the same error.
>>
>> So it seems that the tlmgr auto-update on the mac (at least on  
>> mine...) installs some corrupted file.
>>
>> I tried also to reinstall the TexLive Manager in TLU with no success.
>
> I just updated mine here:
>
> $ tlmgr --version
> tlmgr revision 15761 (2009-10-11 10:00:42 +0200)
> tlmgr using installation: /usr/local/texlive/2009
> TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2009
>
> /usr/texbin/tlmgr --machine-readable --repository http://ftp.cstug.cz/pub/tex/tlnet/ 
>  update --list
>
> runs with no problems (this is what TLU uses).  I've no idea what's  
> going on, so please post to tex-live at tug.org and see if the tlmgr  
> developers can figure this out.
>

Howdy,

Could it be that `install for all users' isn't checked in TLU and/or  
using tlmgr toupdate itself isn't being done using sudo? Dust in the  
wind.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)