[TxMt] Re: Thanks for Latex bundle help

[Berend Hasselman]

On 23-03-2010, at 19:23, Lucy Buykx wrote:

> Thanks all for the help and comments about the Latex bundle. Sorry if it has gone off topic, but as you can see, I have no way to figure out what is the responsibility of TextMate, of the LaTeX bundle and what has to be handled by something else again e.g. MacTex or TexLive Utility.
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> I have downloaded and installed MacTex and now when I run the command latex I get "This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009)". Says to me that MacTex is also known as pdfTeX and also known as TeX Live 2009. Three different names gets pretty confusing. I also downloaded and installed TexLive Utility which gave me some encouraging feedback and then failed miserably 
> 

TeXLive is the general name for a complete TeX distribution  resulting from the work of several TeX user groups.
The 2009 refers to the year of release.
MacTeX is the version 
pdfTeX is a program that is part of TeXLive.
It generates .pdf files from your .tex file.

> "2010-03-23 18:11:18 +0000 Notice -[TLMAppController checkVersionConsistency][51322]	Looks like you're using TeX Live 2009…good!
> 2010-03-23 18:11:18 +0000 Notice -[TLMAppController checkVersionConsistency][51322]	*** WARNING *** Potential version mismatch between tlmgr and mirror URL http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008
> 2010-03-23 18:11:21 +0000 Notice -[TLMOperation main][51322]	termination status of task /usr/texbin/tlmgr was 2
> 2010-03-23 18:11:21 +0000 Notice -[TLMOperation main][51322]	Standard error from `/usr/texbin/tlmgr --machine-readable --location http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008 update --list`
> tlmgr: package repository ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008
> unusable location ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb, could not load any packages
> Cannot load TeX Live database from ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008 at /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 3919."  

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Berend