TeX Live update failure
Philip Schneider
pjschneider at earthlink.net
Tue Nov 21 02:36:46 CET 2023
Thanks! That worked for me.
> On Nov 20, 2023, at 12:27 PM, Arash Esbati <arash at gnu.org> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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