TeX Live update failure

[Arash Esbati]

Philip Schneider <pjschneider at earthlink.net> writes:

> I’m on macOS Sonoma 14.1.1. Just tried updating via the TeX Live
> Utility app, and am getting an error. I’m informed of the error via a
> popup stating:
>
> “The update failed. The update process appears to have failed, would
> you like to show the log now or ignore this warning?”
>
> Looking at the log, I see this:
>
> “./runme.sh: no xz.[universal-darwin][.exe] binary for
> /usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/universal-darwin in /var/folders/y3/<long
> dir name>/T/<long dir name>/installer/xz.’”

I think this is a known issue which was discussed on TeXlive ML[1].  In
short, it seems to be TLU bug.  You can circumvent it by opening a shell
and doing:

  sudo tlmgr update --self

TLU should work after that as expected.

Best, Arash

Footnotes:
[1]  https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2023-November/thread.html