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amaxwell / tlutility

TeX Live Utility, a Mac OS GUI for the TeX Live Manager
http://amaxwell.github.io/tlutility/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Listing failed when trying to search for updates #9

Closed tklebel closed 9 years ago

tklebel commented 10 years ago

I'm using tlutility 1.19 on Mac OS X 10.10.1. with TexLive 2014.

I had problems searching for updates.

Log: 2014-11-20 20:50:42 +0000 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController _refreshUpdatedPackageListFromLocation:][1495] Refreshing list of updated packages… 2014-11-20 20:50:49 +0000 Notice -[TLMOperation main][1495] Failed executing /usr/texbin/tlmgr --machine-readable --repository ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/packages/tex/systems/texlive/tlnet update --list --all (error 1) 2014-11-20 20:50:49 +0000 Notice -[TLMOperation main][1495] tlmgr: package repository ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/packages/tex/systems/texlive/tlnet tlmgr: backupdir as set in tlpdb /usr/local/texlive/2014/tlpkg/backups is not a directory. Exiting.

ls in Terminal showed: XXX:tlpkg XXX$ ls README TeXLive installer texlive.profile texlive.tlpdb texlive.tlpdb.7d91e0d7c5104ab741f9b2150cbf6cf1 texlive.tlpdb.cb4d87b1077a7ded201cfa3d92984c7d texlive.tlpdb.cdb283f66a8b172f4d6d2a0c249bbd77 texlive.tlpdb.d3a1fa00b9e85bfc0666b3465d120863 texlive.tlpdb.e516277c596b5987fe9375651f70cf61 texworks tlpobj tlpostcode translations

I had to create the directory "backups" manually, now its running fine.

amaxwell commented 10 years ago

Did you reinstall MacTeX after installing Yosemite, or use Apple's installer to preserve it from your prior operating system? My understanding is that Apple's installer will occasionally cause problems like this, but I don't know the details off the top of my head.

tklebel commented 10 years ago

I didn't reinstall it, as my installation of MacTeX was just a few days old. Unfortunately I cannot tell, which update(10.10 or 10.10.1) might have caused the problem, as I never used tlutility before. Had some problems with biber after updating to 10.10.1, so I tried to update MacTeX, which failed. But as I said, now it's working fine.

It may well be, that Apple's installer didn't copy all the files and directories properly.