After updating to Yosemite over Mavericks I tried to update MacTex 2014. I updated Tex Live Utility to the latest version 1.19 as recommended elsewhere on this list, but found that the list of available packages for update failed to populate.
I think this is a problem with MacTex 2014, specifically the (lack of some) default subdirectories in /usr/local/texlive/2014/tlpkg/, in particular the subdirectory <backups> needs to be created. I eventually discovered this from the informative log file. There were two problems: > Failed executing `/usr/texbin/tlmgr --machine-readable --repository > http://mirror.as24220.net/pub/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/ update --list > --all` (error 1) tlmgr: package repository > http://mirror.as24220.net/pub/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/ > =============================================================================== > tlmgr itself needs to be updated. > Please do this via either > tlmgr update --self > .. This command would not work until I created /usr/local/texlive/2014/tlpkg/backups > Then continue with other updates as usual. > =============================================================================== > tlmgr: backupdir as set in tlpdb /usr/local/texlive/2014/tlpkg/backups is > not a directory. Exiting. Then Tex Live Utility worked fine
