can't update tex live
Ann Cowling <[email protected]> Sat, 4 Apr 2026 06:43:22 +1100
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Hello there I am trying to update my version of Tex Live (perhaps installed in 2017 or 2018) on my iMAC (2017). I have tried various commands I found on texstackexchange ... all result in error messages eg Anns-iMac:~ anncowling$ tlmgr update --self --all --reinstall-forcibly-removed /Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: only MacOSX is supported, not darwin 13.7 (from sw_vers -productVersion: 13.7.8) /Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: Initialization failed (in setup_unix_one): /Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: could not find a usable wget. /Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: Please install wget and try again. /Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: Initialization failed (in setup_unix_one): /Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: could not find a usable xzdec. /Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: Please install xzdec and try again. tlmgr: Couldn't set up the necessary programs. Installation of packages is not supported. Please report to [email protected]. Use of uninitialized value $r in split at /Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr line 3976. tlmgr: Cannot find main repository, you have to tag one as main! Anns-iMac:~ anncowling$ or Anns-iMac:~ anncowling$ tlmgr update --self --all /Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: only MacOSX is supported, not darwin 13.7 (from sw_vers -productVersion: 13.7.8) /Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: Initialization failed (in setup_unix_one): /Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: could not find a usable wget. /Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: Please install wget and try again. /Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: Initialization failed (in setup_unix_one): /Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: could not find a usable xzdec. /Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: Please install xzdec and try again. tlmgr: Couldn't set up the necessary programs. Installation of packages is not supported. Please report to [email protected]. Use of uninitialized value $r in split at /Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr line 3976. tlmgr: Cannot find main repository, you have to tag one as main! *Please can you advise what to do now?* *Kind regards* *Ann* *PS<. I can use tex/latex whatever, but know nothing about computing so need layman's terminology.*