[tex-live] tlmgr problem on mac

Sun Nov 1 19:17:39 CET 2009

Dear Victor, I tried with the server you mentioned but I got the same  
error.

macbook:~ languasc$ sudo tlmgr option location http://ftp.ctex.org/mirrors/texlive/tlnet/
Password:
tlmgr: setting default package repository to http://ftp.ctex.org/mirrors/texlive/tlnet/
macbook:~ languasc$ sudo tlmgr update --selftlmgr: package repository http://ftp.ctex.org/mirrors/texlive/tlnet/
/usr/local/texlive/2009/tlpkg/installer/xz/xzdec.universal-darwin:  
(stdin): File format not recognized
First directive needs to be 'name', not <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C// 
DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd 
"> at /usr/local/texlive/2009/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm line 123,  
<RETFH> line 1.
macbook:~ languasc$

I have a macbook with 10.5.8.

Alessandro

PS. on my linux box the update was fine.

On 01/nov/09, at 19:12, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> No problem with
>
> http://ftp.ctex.org/mirrors/texlive/tlnet/
>
> (MacOSX 10.6.1 on 3 computers, MacOSX 10.4.8 on PPC, linux-64)
>
> Victor