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Once a year, sometime shortly after March, I try to update something with `tlmgr` (the texlive manager) and it flails about. It tells me that I'm silly for not noticing that TeXLive has advanced another year, and that I should get with the times and update too.
Then I spend 30 minutes updating my texlive.
And then *afterwards* I can install the random latex package I needed.
Today is that day for me. And the package was extdash.
I do essentially the same steps every year. This year I put these steps in a public place.
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Public Service Announcement: if you get a failure of TeX Live Utility giving you an error to apply a critical infrastructure update, you can resolve it in Terminal.app. Go there, and type:
```bash
sudo tlmgr update --self
```That should be enough to bring the TeXlive manager itself up to date, and then you can keep managing your updates with TeX Live Utility.
Of course, you can just `sudo tlmgr update --all`, if that is what you were going to do anyway ;-)
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@benjamingeer Thanks! Yes, I’ve also been using polyglossia up to now. The main reason I want to make the switch to babel is that @pandoc made it, and that’s what we actually use to generate #TeXLaTeX. The general mechanism works fine, but my main problem is that I don’t know how to install the Persian language support with #tlmgr (which is also what #Pandoc is using in its Docker container).
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My talk at the #packagingcon 2021 is now on youtube: "Packaging TeX Live - the challenge of multi-platform support" #tex #texlive #packaging #tlmgr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCCb64NkAo
