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<div>In your message, you quote our documentation as recommending TeX Live Utility </div>
<div>and the menu item "Reconfigure Distribution". The actual menu is</div>
<div>"Change Default TeX Live Version." A moment ago, I discovered that the MacTeX install</div>
<div>page claims it is "Select Default TeX Live Version." I just fixed that.</div>
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<div>I cannot find "Reconfigure Distribution" in our web pages. If it is there, could you</div>
<div>please write me a note telling where and I'll fix it.</div>
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<div>MacTeX is mainly about making TeX easy to use on the Mac for people unfamiliar with</div>
<div>Unix. If you run from the command line, you may have to modify features, but that should</div>
<div>be very easy using the following facts:</div>
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<div>1) We install TeX Live itself completely unmodified. The distribution you have in</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>/usr/local/texlive/2023</div>
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<div>is exactly what you would get by installing using the Unix install script.</div>
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<div>2) MacTeX also creates a symbolic link /Library/TeX/texbin pointing indirectly to the</div>
<div>TeX Binaries. All of our GUI programs use this link. Your shell may or may not</div>
<div>have been automatically configured to use it depending on how that shell sets</div>
<div>up path. Check your PATH to see. Since you don't complain about typesetting,</div>
<div>I suspect /Library/TeX/texbin is in your path.</div>
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<div>3) If you use /Library/TeX/texbin in your path, then switching distributions with</div>
<div>TeX Live Utility will automatically switch the link and thus work fine from the</div>
<div>command line.</div>
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<div>4) We generally do not recommend adding environment variables. Such variables</div>
<div>are recognized by TeX Live, of course, but nothing extraneous added by MacTeX</div>
<div>will use them.</div>
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<div>Richard Koch</div>
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<div>On Jul 1, 2023, at 1:39 AM, Stephen Cox <stephenjcox3@gmail.com> wrote:</div>
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Hi,
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<div>Just installed TeX Live on MacBook running Ventura 13.4.1</div>
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<div>Seems to work fine from the Tex Live app but I can’t make it work from the command line (which I prefer to use) despite doing:</div>
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<div>MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/doc/man:$MANPATH; export MANPATH </div>
<div>INFOPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/doc/info:$INFOPATH; export INFOPATH</div>
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<div>and confirming that these environment variables are defined as above. </div>
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<div>>> echo $MANPATH</div>
<div>/usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/doc/man:</div>
<div>>> echo $INFOPATH</div>
<div>/usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/doc/info:</div>
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<div>The documentation stated:</div>
<div><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;">You can switch back and forth between TEX Live 2023 and your old distribution by using the program TeX Live Utility in /Applications/TeX. Run this program and select the menu item “Reconfigure
Distributions...” in the Configure menu.</span></div>
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<div>But the menu item ‘Reconfigure Distributions’ does not appear in the app.</div>
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