Thank you all for your comments on this. I'm overwhelmed, not
just with the volume of the discussion, but my own ignorance of the
standard command line protocols.
After trying some but on all of Eberhard Lisse's and Peter
Dalgaard's suggestions below, the problem disappeard after I executed
"sudo rm /usr/local/bin/pdflatex". I tested "R CMD check
Ecfun_0.2-4.tar.gz" right before I did that, and the problem was still
there. It disappeared right after I did that.
Lisse's "UninstallPKG" might have been more graceful, but I
couldn't find the key to that padlock, so I used something that seems
more like boltcutters instead -- and it worked.
Thanks again,
Spencer Graves
On 2020-05-13 09:57, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
Peter,
as far as I understand this the idea is to make the binaries of whatever
MacTeX you use available in
/Library/TeX/texbin
Finder says this was installed yesterday, presumably when I
installed MacTex.
so that it survives the (annual) upgrade of MacTeX or a switch from the
Basic to the Big MacTeX or whatever.
I would personally not remove the pdflatex, but find something like
UninstallPKG
How do I find something like "UninstallPKG"?
and then locate MacTeX in there and remove that (all
versions, so all old crud goes away.
If you, like me, use MacTeXBasic you can do something like
I don't think I'm using MacTexBasic, but I'm not a big LaTeX user,
beyond trying to make RMarkdown work these days (and having used LaTeX
when writing "Functional Data Analysis with R and Matlab with Ramsay and
Hooker over a decade ago).
if [ ! -x /usr/local/bin/gawk ]
I don't seem to have gawk installed, at least not there, and
"gawk" at a Terminal prompt returned, "-bash: gawk: command not found".
then
brew install gawk
I did that, and it seemed to work. It started "Updating
Homebrew..." and ended 'For compilers to find readline you may need to
set: export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/readline/lib"; export
CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/readline/include"'.
fi
tlmgr list --only-installed \
| gawk '{gsub(/:/, ""); print $2}' \
> ~/Downloads/texlive.$(date +%Y-%m-%d).installed.txt
I tried that. It executed quickly with no output.
before uninstalling the old packages,
I don't know what to uninstall nor how to do it nor how to even
find what I should uninstall, other than ask here (or maybe at
tex.stackexchange, as Dirk Eddelbuettel had suggested).
then you install the latest and
greatest MacTeXBasic
I installed MacTex yesterday, as I indicated earlier in this
thread. That may not be enough, but I will skip that for the moment.
and run something like
tlmgr update --self
I did this in /Library/TeX/texbin as follows:
texbin sbgraves$ tlmgr update --self
tlmgr: Local TeX Live (2019) is older than remote repository (2020).
Cross release updates are only supported with
update-tlmgr-latest(.sh/.exe) --update
See https://tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html for details.
That link starts with, "By default, please get the new TL by doing
a new installation instead of proceeding here." Clicking "here" took me
to where I was yesterday, when I installed MacTex-2020, which seems to
have gone into "/user/local/texlive/2020". I also found under
"/user/local/texlive" subdirectories for 2014, and 2016 but not 2019.
tlmgr install $(cat ~/Downloads/texlive.$(date
+%Y-%m-%d).installed.txt)
This gave me the same message as "tlmgr update --self".
and, perhaps
perl -i -p \
-e 's+\$SELFAUTOPARENT/+/usr/local/texlive/+' \
/usr/local/texlive/2020basic/texmf.cnf
texhash
I have "/user/local/texlive/2020" but not "2020basic", as I
indicated above. I think I'll skip this for the moment.
:-)-O
Nowadays, you can just
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/texlive/2019basic
and if you use homebrew you might have /usr/local owned by yourself so
you don't need the sudo.
Time Machine is your friend (as I just noticed) :-)-O
el
On 13/05/2020 15:34, peter dalgaard wrote:
Hmm, like Eberhard, I'm not too sure this is right.
A look at ls -l /usr/local/bin should be informative though.
ls -l /usr/local/bin
total 460456
