MacTeX Install - Final Data Point

Rod Yager rod at yager.au
Sun Feb 23 05:47:41 CET 2025


For what it's worth, I ran the MacTeX install on my 2019 MacBook Pro (Intel) (MacOS 15.4)  with the Installer Log Window open and showing all entries and the installation aborted due to the 600 second postinstall timeout. 

However, when I reran it without the Installer  Log window open, it completed without problems. The overhead of the verbose logging that the remaking of formats provides was probably the difference between completing within the 600 seconds.

But my experience suggests that including the timeout key with a longer setting might be useful for some of us on old hardware with modern OSes.

Rod





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