<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;">What you have is a singularly unhelpful error message. Basically, “something went wrong”.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;">You might try searching the file /var/log/install.log for clues. The file is long, but if you haven't installed anything else recently, the mactex installation log entries should be near the end.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;">And rather than downloading multiple times, just run md5 on your installation file and compare the result with the fingerprint listed at <a href="https://www.tug.org/mactex/mactex-download.html">https://www.tug.org/mactex/mactex-download.html</a>.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Perhaps you have a full disk? Worth looking into.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Also, the mactex support list will be much more likely to help than texhax:</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;">See <a href="https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/mactex-support">https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/mactex-support</a></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div> <font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;">– Harald<br> </span></font><div class="gmail_signature"></div> <div class="airmail_ext_on" style="color:black"><br>From: <span style="color:black">Martin via texhax</span> <a href="mailto:texhax@tug.org"><texhax@tug.org></a><br>Reply: <span style="color:black">Martin</span> <a href="mailto:you.find.me@icloud.com"><you.find.me@icloud.com></a><br>Date: <span style="color:black">3 May 2023 at 15:41:33</span><br>To: <span style="color:black">support@tug.org</span> <a href="mailto:support@tug.org"><support@tug.org></a><br>Subject: <span style="color:black"> MacTeX Installation fails on M1 Mac <br></span></div><br> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div></div><div>Dear TUG-Team,<div><br></div><div>I need to compile my Master Thesis. I worked on my old Mac with MacTex successfully.</div><div><br></div><div>Now I changed my Mac from Intel to an Apple M1 Chipset (Arm based). With that I receive a failure message, which describes to contact the developer of the Software:[ […]</div></div></div></span></blockquote></body></html>