[OS X TeX] MacTeX2009

[Adam M. Goldstein]

On Nov 9, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Nov 9, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote:
>
>> Naive question-
>>
>> Will updating with tlmgr (I've been using the pre-release versions)  
>> bring me up to date with the TeX and LaTeX packages, etc (not  
>> including the GUI's and other "extras" in the main .dmg)?
>>
>>
>
> If you are talking about updating MacTeX(TeX Live)-2008 the answer  
> is NO. There have been some structural changes between TeX Live 2008  
> and 2009 that doesn't permit that update. It is hoped that when TeX  
> Live 2010 comes out simply keeping 2009 up to date via tlmgr (or TeX  
> Live Utility for a nice GUI interface on OS X 10.5 and above) will  
> keep you up to date.
>


Thanks Herb, this is useful. I have been using the preview  
installation of TL2009, so I'm good.

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