<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I am trying to install TeXLive 2021 on several Macs I own using the vanilla Unix install package install-tl.unx.tar.gz (I prefer it to the more standard MacTeX distribution because I don’t need most of the apps that come with it, among other reasons). Although I’ve been doing this for a number of years without a hitch, this time over I haven’t been able to do so. More precisely, after decompressing the tar.gz archive, cd’ing to the install directory, executing the standard command (sudo perl ./install-tl —no-gui) and entering my password, nothing happens for several minutes and then I get an error message like the following:</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">cannot contact <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/" class="">mirror.ctan.org</a>, returning a backbone server!<br class="">Loading <a href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb" class="">http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb</a><br class=""><br class="">./install-tl: TLPDB::from_file could not initialize from: <a href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb" class="">http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb</a><br class="">./install-tl: Maybe the repository setting should be changed.<br class="">./install-tl: More info: <a href="https://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html" class="">https://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html</a></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Needless to say I’ve tried with several other repositories with similar results. For instance</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">sudo perl ./install-tl --repository <a href="https://ctan.javinator9889.com/systems/texlive/tlnet" class="">https://ctan.javinator9889.com/systems/texlive/tlnet</a> --no-gui</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Loading <a href="https://ctan.javinator9889.com/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb" class="">https://ctan.javinator9889.com/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb</a><br class=""><br class="">./install-tl: TLPDB::from_file could not initialize from: <a href="https://ctan.javinator9889.com/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb" class="">https://ctan.javinator9889.com/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb</a><br class="">./install-tl: Maybe the repository setting should be changed.<br class="">./install-tl: More info: <a href="https://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html" class="">https://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html</a></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Could anybody please tell me what I’m doing wrong? (It’ probably something more or less obvious, but I am stymied). Right now I am running TeXLive 2020</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks in advance,</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Artemio<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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