[tlu] Updating MacTex

[Matthias Wischer]

Hi there,

thnaks for your help. I put the ftp address from Adam in the TeX Live Utility. I get a message that there are 788 packets with critical updates. Then it seems that something would be downloaded. But I get an error :-(
Here is the log. I hope you can find someting. 

Thanks!
Matthias


2022-01-25 21:27:50 +0000 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController changeServerURL:][3602]	User changed URL to ftp://ftp.tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2018/tlnet-final/
2022-01-25 21:27:50 +0000 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController _refreshUpdatedPackageListFromLocation:][3602]	Refreshing list of updated packages…
2022-01-25 21:27:58 +0000 Notice -[TLMOperation main][3602]	Successfully executed `/usr/local/texlive/2018/bin/x86_64-darwin/tlmgr --machine-readable --repository ftp://ftp.tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2018/tlnet-final/ update --list --all`
2022-01-25 21:27:58 +0000 Notice -[TLMOperation main][3602]	TeX Live 2018 is frozen forever and will no
longer be updated.  This happens in preparation for a new release.

If you're interested in helping to pretest the new release (when
pretests are available), please read http://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html.
Otherwise, just wait, and the new release will be ready in due time.
2022-01-25 21:28:03 +0000 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController _handleListUpdatesFinishedNotification:][3602]	Critical updates detected: (
    "texlive.infra",
    "texlive.infra.x86_64-darwin"
)
2022-01-25 21:28:05 +0000 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController _isCorrectDatabaseVersionAtURL:][3602]	Checking database version in case preferences have been changed…
2022-01-25 21:28:05 +0000 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController _updateAllPackagesFromRepository:][3602]	Beginning infrastructure update from ftp://ftp.tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2018/tlnet-final/
2022-01-25 21:28:06 +0000 Notice -[TLMInfraUpdateOperation _synchronouslyDownloadURL:toPath:][3602]	Downloading URL: ftp://ftp.tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2018/tlnet-final/update-tlmgr-latest.sh
2022-01-25 21:28:06 +0000 Notice -[TLMInfraUpdateOperation download:willSendRequest:redirectResponse:][3602]	Download redirected to ftp://ftp.tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2018/tlnet-final/update-tlmgr-latest.sh, expecting 0 bytes.
2022-01-25 21:29:06 +0000 Notice -[TLMInfraUpdateOperation download:didFailWithError:][3602]	Download failed: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1001 "Zeitüberschreitung bei der Anforderung." UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x7faaa3e513d0 {Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=-1001 "Zeitüberschreitung bei der Anforderung." UserInfo={NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=ftp://ftp.tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2018/tlnet-final/update-tlmgr-latest.sh, NSErrorFailingURLKey=ftp://ftp.tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2018/tlnet-final/update-tlmgr-latest.sh, _kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=-2102, _kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=4, NSLocalizedDescription=Zeitüberschreitung bei der Anforderung.}}, NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=ftp://ftp.tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2018/tlnet-final/update-tlmgr-latest.sh, NSErrorFailingURLKey=ftp://ftp.tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2018/tlnet-final/update-tlmgr-latest.sh, _kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=4, _kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=-2102, NSLocalizedDescription=Zeitüberschreitung bei der Anforderung.}
Failed URL was: ftp://ftp.tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2018/tlnet-final/update-tlmgr-latest.sh
2022-01-25 21:29:06 +0000 Notice -[TLMInfraUpdateOperation main][3602]	Removed temp directory "/var/folders/47/8j4vh27s11l0wrz6v7smcg640000gn/T/TLMInfraUpdateOperation.Y7tXJT“




> Am 25.01.2022 um 17:33 schrieb Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jan 25, 2022, at 9:45 AM, Adam R. Maxwell via tlu <tlu at tug.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Matthias,,
>> 
>> TLU should automatically use an archived mirror for updating MacTeX 2018. If it's not using this one,
>> 
>> ftp://ftp.tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2018/tlnet-final/
>> 
>> please send me the log output from TLU's log window. Something else might be going on, but I haven't tested on El Capitan in quite some time.
>> 
>> thanks,
>> Adam
>> 
>>> On Jan 25, 2022, at 7:34 AM, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> TeX Live only supports updating the latest version of TeX. You can install MacTeX-2018, but you can only update it manually yourself. 
>>> 
>>> An alternative is to install the latest MacTeX using the Unix install script. This will give you the x86_64-darwinlegacy binaries, which will run on your machine, and the latest packages, and then TeX Live Utility can update the distribution. For an explanation, go to
>>> 
>>> https://tug.org/mactex
>>> 
>>> and read the linked page on using a Unix install script.
>>> 
>>> Richard Koch
>>> koch at uoregon.edu
>>> 
>>> PS: After writing this, I see it is a question to the TeX Live Utility mailing list. Adam Maxwell may give a more definitive answer!
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 25, 2022, at 12:37 AM, Matthias Wischer <matthias_wischer at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I’ve got a problem with mit TeX-Distribution and I hope that you can help me. After updating my Mac my Tex does not run properly. When I want to set the text I get errors in several packages. I updated to OSX El Capitan (10.11.6) so I had to reinstall my TeX. I only can use MacTex 2018. The installation was ok. I use TexLiveUtility 1.52. I tried to re-install those packages but I get an error that the version could not be determined. I tried other repositories but the same error. I think I need an repository which supports my ‚old‘ TeX distribution? Could you please help me?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks and greets from Germany
>>>> Matthias
>> 
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> I assume that also means you can only update once to get to the final, frozen version of that year's TeX Lived. Any more attempts will just say there isn't anything to update.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> herbs at wideopenwest.com
> 
>