[tex-live] tlmgr problem on a mac

Sun Nov 1 19:55:22 CET 2009

> which version of Mac OS X?, what version is your tlmgr?, what hardware
> (intel or ppc)?

I have the same problem on every mirror I tried; the infos are

macosX i'm running is 10.5.8,  macbook intel 2.4 ghz

macbook:~ languasc$ tlmgr --version
tlmgr revision 15761 (2009-10-11 10:00:42 +0200)
tlmgr using installation: /usr/local/texlive/2009
TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2009

Now I try with the other suggestion you sent me.

Thanks
ALessandro

On 01/nov/09, at 19:46, George N. White III wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Alessandro Languasco <languasc at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was trying to update the texlive 2009 pretest on my mac.
>>
>> First I updated tlmgr from http://ftp.cstug.cz/pub/tex/tlnet/;
>> tlmgr update --self was ok.
>>
>> The following command tlmgr update --all gives me the error
>>
>> sh-3.2# tlmgr update --all
>> tlmgr: package repository http://ftp.cstug.cz/pub/tex/tlnet/
>> /usr/local/texlive/2009/tlpkg/installer/xz/xzdec.universal-darwin:  
>> (stdin):
>> File format not recognized
>
> Download one of the .xz files to a scratch directory and make sure
> xzdec.universal-darwin is working.  You can use "xz.universal-darwin  
> -t <file>"
> to check that the .xz file is not corrupt, and
>
> xzdec.universal-darwin <file> | tar tvf -
>
> to make sure the tar archive is OK.
>
> Can you try using a different mirror in case the one above has a  
> corrupt file?
>
>> First directive needs to be 'name', not <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-// 
>> W3C//DTD
>> XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> at
>> /usr/local/texlive/2009/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm line 123, <RETFH>  
>> line 1.
>>
>> Trying again tlmgr update --self gives the same error.
>>
>> So it seems (to me) that the tlmgr auto-update on the mac (at least  
>> on
>> mine...) installs some corrupted file.
>>
>> So I discarded completely /usr/local/texlive/2009 directory, I  
>> installed
>> from scratch using mactex 2009 (oct 22 version) and I tried again
>> to update. But I got the same mistake (first update --self is fine;  
>> but then
>> update--all
>> doesn't work and from this point nothing works in using tlmgr)
>>
>>
>> Do you have some advice/ suggestion?
>
> I'm not near an Apple machine, but for linux updated today from svn  
> I have:
>
> $ tlmgr update --list
> tlmgr: package repository /Data/opt/tex/texlive/svn/Master
> Updates for tlmgr itself are present.
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> ======================================================================
> Please update the package manager first, via either
> tlmgr update --self
> or by getting the latest updater for Unix-ish systems:
> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh
> and/or Windows systems:
> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.exe
> Then continue with other updates.
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> ======================================================================
> texlive.infra [1313k]: local: 15880, source: 15914 (update)
> texlive.infra.i386-linux [217k]: local: 15878, source: 15914 (update)
> texlive-common [265k]: local: 15719, source: 15914 (update)
> texlive-en [2521k]: local: 15871, source: 15915 (update)
> xetex-def [17k]: local: 15878, source: 15901 (update)
> gwhite at cerberus:~$ tlmgr update --self
> tlmgr: package repository /Data/opt/tex/texlive/svn/Master
> [1/2, ??:??/??:??] update: texlive.infra [1313k] (15880 ->  
> 15914) ... done
> [2/2, 00:00/00:02] update: texlive.infra.i386-linux [217k] (15878 ->
> 15914) ... done
> tlmgr: package log updated at /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/ 
> web2c/tlmgr.log
> running mktexlsr ...
> done running mktexlsr.
> $ tlmgr update --all
> tlmgr: package repository /Data/opt/tex/texlive/svn/Master
> [1/3, ??:??/??:??] update: texlive-common [265k] (15719 ->  
> 15914) ... done
> [2/3, 00:19/00:21] update: texlive-en [2521k] (15871 -> 15915) ...  
> done
> [3/3, 00:00/00:03] update: xetex-def [17k] (15878 -> 15901) ... done
> tlmgr: package log updated at /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/ 
> web2c/tlmgr.log
> running mktexlsr ...
> done running mktexlsr.
> $ tlmgr --version
> tlmgr revision 15761 (2009-10-11 10:00:42 +0200)
> tlmgr using installation: /usr/local/texlive/2009
> TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2009
>
> You could try using the above update-tlmgr-latest.sh
>
> If you still have the problem using a different mirror, some
> additional details might be useful:
>
> which version of Mac OS X?, what version is your tlmgr?, what hardware
> (intel or ppc)?
>
> -- 
> George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia