[OS X TeX] TeX Live Utility update failure: allegedly missing lthtlw.enc

[Murray Eisenberg]

What's meant by an "authenticating editor"? And why won't my version of BBEdit, purchased from the apple App Store, not suffice for such an edit?

On 8 Jul 2014 14:19:48 -0700, Michael Sharpe <msharpe at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> On Jul 8, 2014, at 2:10 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I just ran the TeX Live Utility 1.17, with MacTeX 2014 and got an "update failed" message that I find odd.
>> 
>> The update included updating fonts-tlwg.
>> 
>> As the log file -- extract below -- shows, the error was when TLU was automatically running updmap-sys (after it ran mktexlsr) and couldn't find file lthtlw.enc whose existence was indicated somehow in /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg.
>> 
>> However, that file _does_ exist: /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/fonts-tlwg/lthtlwg.enc
>> (also /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/source/fonts/fonts-tlwg/latex/lthtlwg.enc).
>> 
>> What's wrong??
> There seems to have been an error in making the TeXLive update script. To fix the problem, edit 
> 
> /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg
> 
> using an authenticating editor like BBEdit or TextWrangler (not the versions from the App store) to remove the line
> 
> Map lthtlwg.enc
> 
> save the result, then run in a Terminal window
> 
> sudo -H updmap-sys
> 
> Michael

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