[tex-live] problem with tlmgr --gui in Mac OS X

[George N. White III]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Artemio Gonzalez Lopez
<artemiog at mac.com> wrote:

> I have installed the MacPorts distributions of perl 5.8, Tk and Perl/Tk
> under Mac OS X 10.5.4, and when I try to execute "tlmgr --gui" it just fails
> with a "Bus error".
>
> Does anybody know a fix for that?

Look for the previous thread, which includes a tiny test script to
verify that trivial
perl/Tk stuff can run (or not).

On my sytems, macports p5-tk is broken.    I've been using the Apple
perl with Perl/Tk installed from CPAN.

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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia