From a couple of days when I try to update the packages with the TeX Live Utility I get the message: Listing Failed.
The Repository's URL is
http://ctan.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet
Going directly to this address with a browser I got error 404 Not Found and I realized that the CTAN word in the web site is lowercase, i.e. ctan.
Changing the Home Repository did not work properly.
Thank you very much for any advice.
[Tex/LaTex] Listing failed – TeX Live Utility
ctanmactextexlive-2020update
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You can't use tlmgr (or its front-end TeX Live Utility). There is a script called getnonfreefonts at http://www.tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts/ that you have to download with the Terminal command
curl -O http://tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts/install-getnonfreefonts
and then install with
sudo texlua install-getnonfreefonts
Then you can get direction on its use by
getnonfreefonts --help
For example, in order to install URW Garamond for all users you do
sudo getnonfreefonts-sys garamond
Installing fonts for one user only is not recommended.
The conditions of a package for TeX Live can be found at this page: TeX Live package contributions
I will quote some of the page to discuss the conditions.
Disclaimer: I am not part of the TeX Live team. This is just my way to see the licensing conditions and my interpretation might not be correct.
Questions can be asked in the TeX Live mailing list (texlive at tug dot org), see TeX Live mailing lists.
1. a) First, the package must be free (as in freedom) software, available under, for example, the LaTeX Project Public License or GNU General Public License. Please state the license explicitly in your package's source code, README, and/or other documentation. Those licenses (and others) contain instructions for how to apply them to your code.
matlab-prettifier is licensed under LPPL 1.3 or any later version.
2. a) The package must be useful in itself, or useful in conjunction with free software. In other words, we won't install a package that exists only to support something nonfree, even when it is free itself (e.g., LPPL'd macro support for a proprietary font). That doesn't help the free software world, and would rightly be rejected by free distros in any case.
Problematic, because MATLAB is AFAIK a commercial software and the sole purpose of matlab-prettifier is the MATLAB language.
TeX Live has the condition, that a package must be useful on a system, which consists and uses entirely free software. This condition differs TeX Live from MiKTeX. It is a concise decision of the Maintainers of TeX Live, which do not want to spend their spare voluntary time on commercial software.
However, it is acceptable for TeX Live AFAIK, if a package is additionally useful for free software. There are some free alternatives to MATLAB: GNU Octave, FreeLab, ... If at least some of them also support the MATLAB language (more or less), or if the package can also support free alternatives, then the red cross might turn to a green check mark.
2. b) We very strongly recommend using an existing license; devising your own will certainly delay any inclusion in TeX Live. We also strongly recommend using a clause “or any later version” with any license. The licensing conditions for TeX Live go into more detail about what is and isn't acceptable.
LPPL 1.3 or any later version.
3. The source for any generated documentation files (e.g., pdf) must also be available for the generated documentation to be included in TeX Live. We won't refuse to install the package itself, but we must refrain from installing generated documentation when there is no source. Free documentation is as important as free software.
Source for the package and documentation is given by the .dtx file.
4. If you haven't uploaded your package to CTAN, please do that. Virtually all TL packages come from CTAN and that is by far the easiest place for us to update from. It's a good thing in general for CTAN to be as comprehensive as possible.
CTAN location: CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/matlab-prettifier/
5. The @ character cannot be used in any filenames. Our tools are not prepared to handle this, and since it's trivial to avoid we'd rather not spend time on it.
matlab-prettifier does not contain @. The use of - is ok.
6. The package should not create (the likelihood of) any new runtime filename conflicts; in other words, all names should be reasonably expected to remain unique; using the package name as a prefix often works well. In addition to conflicts in the TeX tree, new executables should have names that are reasonably distinctive, and not just within the TeX world—most executables will end up being installed in system-wide directories as part of os distributions.
The only run-time file matlab-prettifier.sty does not conflict with any other file in TeX Live.
Summary:
- Most conditions pass without doubt.
- In case of 2.a), I would ask on the TeX Live mailing list. It would help, if the package can show its usefulness for free software.
- The package might just be overlooked, also a reason to ask on the TeX Live mailing list.
Best Answer
The GARR mirror (the one for Italy) appears unresponsive to the queries by
tlmgr, although it appears up-to-date. If you set the repository tohttp://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet
then you'll be redirected to a working mirror according to some rule of “vicinity”. My queries to
tlmgrare presently redirected tohttp://ctan.ijs.si/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/
which is located in Slovenia.