MacTeX Live 2022 Install Hassels

[John Collins]

On 4/10/22 6:46 AM, Marek Stepanek via tex-live wrote:
> 
> I am on macOS 12.3.1 MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018)
> I have a HomeBrew install with ghostscript. All my installs of TeXLive 2022 I left the defaults as they are. Probably here lies my issue?

That actually isn't a problem at all.

I presume you installed TeX Live 2022 by using the generic unix install script 
rather than by installing MacTeX-2022.  Is that correct?

If so, there's one extra item you need for installation on macOS.  This is to 
install TeXDist-2022.  For details, see

https://tug.org/mactex/mactex-unix-download.html

(This link will probably get modified by the Microsoft mail server to go via a 
Microsoft server for security.)

I used this method yesterday, and it worked without any problem.  What it does 
is first to add the appropriate pointers to TeX Live 2022 in the directories 
under /Library/TeX. Then it arranges for TeX Live 2022 to be used in place of 
TeX Live 2021.   The new installation should be in its default place 
/usr/local/texlive/2022.

By the way, at the end of the TeX Live 2022 there is a paragraph about setting 
various environment variables.  This should be ignored under macOS.  It would 
be nice if the TeX Live maintainers added a mention of the web page for 
macOS-specific differences.)


> I installed TeX-Live 2022, while distribution of 2021 was still present in `/usr/local/texlive`.

That's what's should happen.



> First my $PATH:
> 
> ```
> /Users/mstep/Library/Python/3.9/bin
> /usr/local/opt/ruby/bin
> /usr/local/bin
> /usr/local/sbin
> /usr/local/mysql/bin
> /Users/mstep/.vim/filters/text
> /Users/mstep/Library/Python/3.9/bin
> 
> /usr/bin
> /bin
> /usr/sbin
> /sbin
> /Library/TeX/texbin
> /Library/Apple/usr/bin
> /Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS
> ```
> 
> So starting here in /Library/TeX/
> 
> ```
> cd /Library/TeX/
> ls -l texbin
>    texbin@ -> Distributions/Programs/texbin
> cd Distributions/Programs/
> ls -l texbin
>    lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    39B  1 Dec  2018 texbin@ -> ../.DefaultTeX/Contents/Programs/texbin
> cd ../.DefaultTeX/Contents/Programs/
> ll texbin
>    lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     9B  2 Apr  2021 texbin@ -> universal
> ll universal
>    lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    64B  2 Apr  2021 universal@ -> ../../../../../../../usr/local/texlive/2021/bin/universal-darwin
> ```
> 
> Making a general `ls -l` in `/Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Programs` revealed many wrong pointers to the now obsolete distribution of TeXLive 2021:

That's the problem that's overcome by the extra step I mentioned above.  If you 
had used the MacTeX-2022 distribution to install TeX Live 2022, that extra step 
wouldn't have been needed.  (The apparently excessively indirect symlinks are 
there for good reason, but it would take another e-mail to explain why.)

The general recommendation is to use the MacTeX-2022 distribution rather than 
the generic Unix installer, unless there are special reasons (e.g., a too-old 
version of macOS to be supported by MacTeX-2022).

John Collins