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What should I run after an update to tlmgr?
After any updates of tlmgr, you can then run, for instance, tlmgr update –all, which will update (including additions and removals) all other packages in your installation that have been changed on the server. Authors frequently release new versions of their work to CTAN, which is propagated into TeX Live.
Where can I get tlmgr on my Mac?
You can get the bleeding-edge tlmgr (e.g., because testing was requested and you’d like to try it), from a separate repository named ‘tlcritical’. This directory is updated nightly from the development sources. The TeX Live Utility on MacOSX provides a convenient way to try this.
Is the tlmgr package manager part of the operating system?
It operates completely separately from any package manager the operating system may provide. The full documentation for tlmgr is available (updated nightly), or you can run tlmgr –help .
Are there version numbers in texlive.tar.xz?
In November 2019, we switched tlnet and other network repositories to have version numbers in the package container names, such as texlive.infra.r52634.tar.xz instead of just texlive.infra.tar.xz. The unversioned name will be a symlink, so the change is mostly invisible.
Is there a way to update tlmgr with MacTeX?
If you installed MacTeX, precede the commands below with sudo, since MacTeX installs as root. Occasionally new versions of tlmgr are released. Your installed tlmgr will notice and ask you to update it before updating anything else.
How to restore tlmgr to a coherent state?
Running them should restore tlmgr to a coherent state. Before running them, be sure your PATH is set to use the current TeX Live bin directory; the recovery archives use kpsewhich from PATH to figure out where to unpack themselves.
What should I do after installing TeX Live?
After successfully installing TeX Live, here are a few common operations with tlmgr: tlmgr option repository https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet Tell tlmgr to use a nearby CTAN mirror for future updates; useful if you installed TeX Live from the DVD image and want to have continuing updates.
Why are there no updates to TeX Live?
1) the TeX Live developers have not yet made the update. This is usually done within a day or two of the upload to CTAN, but occasionally it can take longer. 2) the package may not be available under a free software license, among other issues, in which case it cannot be included in TeX Live (the package contribution page explains).