[tex-live] tlmgr problem on mac

Sun Nov 1 19:20:20 CET 2009

I see the same behavior on OS X 10.5.8.

Daniel

On 1 Nov 2009, at 19:17, Alessandro Languasco wrote:

> Dear Victor, I tried with the server you mentioned but I got the  
> same error.
>
> macbook:~ languasc$ sudo tlmgr option location http://ftp.ctex.org/mirrors/texlive/tlnet/
> Password:
> tlmgr: setting default package repository to http://ftp.ctex.org/mirrors/texlive/tlnet/
> macbook:~ languasc$ sudo tlmgr update --selftlmgr: package  
> repository http://ftp.ctex.org/mirrors/texlive/tlnet/
> /usr/local/texlive/2009/tlpkg/installer/xz/xzdec.universal-darwin:  
> (stdin): File format not recognized
> 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.
> macbook:~ languasc$
>
> I have a macbook with 10.5.8.
>
> Alessandro
>
> PS. on my linux box the update was fine.
>
> On 01/nov/09, at 19:12, Victor Ivrii wrote:
>
>> No problem with
>>
>> http://ftp.ctex.org/mirrors/texlive/tlnet/
>>
>> (MacOSX 10.6.1 on 3 computers, MacOSX 10.4.8 on PPC, linux-64)
>>
>> Victor
>