Updating basictex did not trigger format rebuild

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Fri Oct 11 17:13:55 CEST 2019


> On Oct 11, 2019, at 10:06 AM, Lars Madsen <daleif at math.au.dk> wrote:
> 
> Not sure if it is worth looking at 
> 
> A user on https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/511838/3929
> 
> reported that updating basictex (the small MacTeX) did not trigger rebuilding the formats which is kinda critical after the latest latex kernel changes
> 
> A manual
> 
> sudo fmtutil-sys --all
> 
> helped. Just wanted to pass it on if there was a general problem with it.
> 
> Note that it is on Catalina if that makes a difference. 
> 
> A another person in the comments mentioned the same problem with a full MacTeX. Not sure if that person is also on calatina.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> /Lars Madsen
> Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
> Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
> Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@math / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@math
> 
> 

Howdy,

I can't say about BasicTeX but I have no problem updating the full TeX Live 2019 (installed by MacTeX) under Catalina. I usually us teX Live Utility which is a front end to tlmgr as well as tlmgr directly.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)




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