Installing MacTeX

[Herbert Schulz]

Howdy,

It looks like you have the pkg file in DropBox. Please move it to a regular folder, e.g. your Desktop, and install from there. 

Good Luck,
Herb Schulz


> On Nov 27, 2023, at 10:12 AM, Anthony Davison via mactex-support <mactex-support at tug.org> wrote:
> 
>  Dear support, 
> 
> I am trying to update the antique (2015!) version of TeX on my iMac (version from 2022, last Ventura) and although I can download it and have admin abilities, when I try and install, it starts to look for places to put the files, then gives the error below.  
> 
> Your web pages say that this is due to a faulty checksum, but that appears to be correct:
> 
>> mathaamac9:~ davison$ md5 /Users/davison/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/Mac\ \(2\)/Desktop/MacTeX.pkg 
>> MD5 (/Users/davison/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/Mac (2)/Desktop/MacTeX.pkg) = 64416e6da409609c48970e23906e7642
>> 
> 
> I get the same error if I try and update Ghostview (my version is also antique).
> 
> I was able to do the upgrade at home on a machine of exactly the same vintage, but running Sonoma. 
> 
> My TeXShop is up to date, so it’s only the TeXLive files I want to change.  Can you help?
> 
> With thanks and best regards, 
> 
> Anthony Davison
> 
> 
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