[tex-live] Fwd: [MacTeX] TLU and tlmgr update

[Manfred Lotz]

On Thu, 25 Dec 2014 20:50:48 -0800
"Adam R. Maxwell" <amaxwell at mac.com> wrote:

> Following a bug report for TeX Live Utility on the MacTeX list,
> I wrote the following reply, and forgot to copy this list in
> case others run into it (and it may affect other UNIX systems
> as well).
> 
> > Looks more like a problem with update-tlmgr-latest.sh,
> > which is what TLU runs to do the update.
> > 
> > http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh
> > 
> > If I download this manually and try to run it
> > 
> > $ 
> > Password:
> > Verifying archive integrity... All good.
> > Uncompressing TeX Live Manager
> > Updater...................................................................................................................................................................................... ./runme.sh:
> > Cannot find TeX Live root using kpsewhich
> > --var-value=SELFAUTOPARENT. ./runme.sh: Please set your PATH as
> > needed, otherwise it's hopeless.
> > 
> > In the same terminal session:
> > 
> > $ kpsewhich --var-value=SELFAUTOPARENT
> > /usr/local/texlive/2014basic
> 

I don't know the context but your compare doesn't make much sense to me.

You should compare:

sudo sh update-tlmgr-latest.sh

with

sudo kpsewhich --var-value=SELFAUTOPARENT

Then you likely will see the same error message you got before. I think
you should indeed set your PATH correctly.


-- 
Manfred