[Tex/LaTex] Local TeX Live (2020) is older than remote repository (2021)

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I installed MacTex 2021, and in /usr/local/texlive, there is only 2021 file. But when I tried to install a package in terminal, it still says
" Local TeX Live (2020) is older than remote repository (2021).
Cross release updates are only supported with
update-tlmgr-latest(.sh/.exe) –update
See https://tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html for details."
I am wondering how I can fix this problem.
Thank you!

Best Answer

It looks like you have TinyTeX installed.

So there are two options. Either you want to switch to MacTeX (which is a full TeXlive distribution) or you want to upgrade your TinyTeX. The latter is documented on the TinyTeX homepage:

If you see an error message “Remote repository newer than local”, it means it is time for you to upgrade (reinstall) TinyTeX manually:

tinytex::reinstall_tinytex()

If you did install a full MacTeX distribution, you should uninstall TinyTeX (which should be just rm -r ~/Library/TinyTeX although I don't see it in your path in your comment).

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