diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 8eb6cc17e..e716251b6 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: tinytex
 Type: Package
 Title: Helper Functions to Install and Maintain TeX Live, and Compile LaTeX Documents
-Version: 0.30.1
+Version: 0.30.2
 Authors@R: c(
   person("Yihui", "Xie", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"), email = "xie@yihui.name", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0645-5666")),
   person(family = "RStudio, PBC", role = "cph"),
diff --git a/R/latex.R b/R/latex.R
index 04b6da963..106f1673b 100644
--- a/R/latex.R
+++ b/R/latex.R
@@ -531,6 +531,7 @@ detect_files = function(text) {
 
     '.* (tikzlibrary[^ ]+?[.]code[.]tex).*',
 
+    ".* Loading '([^']+)' aborted!",
     ".*! LaTeX Error: File `([^']+)' not found.*",
     ".* file ['`]?([^' ]+)'? not found.*",
     '.*the language definition file ([^ ]+) .*',
diff --git a/R/tlmgr.R b/R/tlmgr.R
index dc8892e67..38f41a871 100644
--- a/R/tlmgr.R
+++ b/R/tlmgr.R
@@ -106,9 +106,14 @@ tlmgr_search = function(what, file = TRUE, all = FALSE, global = TRUE, word = FA
 tlmgr_install = function(pkgs = character(), usermode = FALSE, path = !usermode && os != 'windows', ...) {
   if (length(pkgs) == 0) return(invisible(0L))
 
+  update_pkgs = function(...) tlmgr_update(..., usermode = usermode)
+
+  # if any packages have been installed, update packages first
+  if (any(check_installed(pkgs))) update_pkgs()
+
   res = tlmgr(c('install', pkgs), usermode, ...)
-  if (res != 0 || !check_installed(pkgs)) {
-    tlmgr_update(all = FALSE, usermode = usermode)
+  if (res != 0 || any(!check_installed(pkgs))) {
+    update_pkgs(all = FALSE)  # update tlmgr itself since it might be outdated
     res = tlmgr(c('install', pkgs), usermode, ...)
   }
   if ('epstopdf' %in% pkgs && is_unix() && Sys.which('gs') == '') {