help with error message

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

No drama whatsoever for 10 years or so when downloading from TUG and
upgrading (annually).  But then I have a shell script to do this for me.

I have now installed BasicTeX on one of my boxes as a homebrew cask and
will see what happens when the annual upgrade comes round.

Never mind that I don't know what upstream tex is nor package installed
tex.

el

On 2021-01-05 18:56 , Steve Litt wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 13:43:26 +0200
> Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam at lisse.NA> wrote:
>
>> Heba,
>>
>> download BasicTeX from the MacTex site. And then use tlmgr from the
>> command line to install missing packages individually. Before an
>> update it is trivial to save the list of installed packages so that
>> one can re-install them afterwards.
>
> In the past, I've had a lot of problems operating with both upstream
> tex, and package installed tex. So I recommend removing the package
> installed tex, and installing the upstream. See
> https://tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html for how to install from
> upstream.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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