[TxMt] Re: Thanks for Latex bundle help

[Niels Kobschaetzki]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Lucy Buykx <lucy at buykx.com> 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.
>
> 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

MacTeX is a distribution that is based on TeX Live (actually it is TeX
Live but w/ OS X-compatible binaries) and pdfTeX is the actual program
you are using. Consider XeTeX if you want to use UTF-8.

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> "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."
>
> So I am part of the way there and now lost in another quagmire I have no idea how to fix. I appreciate this is off topic and I have to go find a list that specialises in TeX to sort this and hope they are gentle with me and don't keep pointing me to the command line :D

As I wrote before: OS X TeX (or MacOSX-TeX) should be your list of
choice but it is pretty high traffic (which is good again if you have
a question because you usually get fast answers):
http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex

Niels