<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">What computer model, what operating system, etc? Please send all information<div class="">which could be related. We tested rather extensively, so this problem is a surprise.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dick Koch</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:koch@uoregon.edu" class="">koch@uoregon.edu</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 1, 2015, at 9:22 AM, John Burt <<a href="mailto:burt@brandeis.edu" class="">burt@brandeis.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I was unable to install MacTeX from the DVD. I opened MacTeX Install Part 1, and copied<div class="">the lines into the terminal as directed. Here is the output from the terminal:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class=""><span class="">Last login: Tue Sep 1 12:13:45 on ttys000</span></p><p class=""><span class="">[C07H5099DJD2:~] burt% bash</span></p><p class=""><span class="">bash-3.2$ umask 0022</span></p><p class=""><span class="">bash-3.2$ cd /Volumes/TEXCOL2015/texlive</span></p><p class=""><span class="">bash-3.2$ sudo ./install-tl --profile /Volumes/TEXCOL2015/mactex/MacTeX-Install/TLprofiles/texlive.profile</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Automated TeX Live installation using profile: /Volumes/TEXCOL2015/mactex/MacTeX-Install/TLprofiles/texlive.profile</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Loading ./tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Installing TeX Live 2015 from: .</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Platform: x86_64-darwin => 'MacOSX/Darwin on x86_64'</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Distribution: inst (compressed)</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Directory for temporary files: /tmp</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Installing to: /usr/local/texlive/2015</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Installing [0001/3220, time/total: ??:??/??:??]: 12many [376k]</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Can't exec "tar": Bad CPU type in executable at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 2338, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">untar: untarring /usr/local/texlive/2015/temp/12many.tar failed (in /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist)</span></p><p class=""><span class="">untarring /usr/local/texlive/2015/temp/12many.tar failed, stopping install.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1551, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1552, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1553, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1554, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1560, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1564, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1566, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1565, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1562, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1561, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1563, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1559, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1559, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1556, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1567, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1558, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1558, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1558, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1558, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1558, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1558, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1558, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1558, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1558, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1558, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1558, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1558, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1558, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1558, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1558, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1558, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1558, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">print() on closed filehandle PROFILE at ./install-tl line 1568, <PROFILE> line 79.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Installation failed.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Rerunning the installer will try to restart the installation.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Or you can restart by running the installer with:</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> install-tl --profile installation.profile [EXTRA-ARGS]</span></p><p class=""><span class="">./install-tl: Could not write to install-tl.log, so flushing messages to stderr.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Automated TeX Live installation using profile: /Volumes/TEXCOL2015/mactex/MacTeX-Install/TLprofiles/texlive.profile</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Loading ./tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Installing TeX Live 2015 from: .</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Platform: x86_64-darwin => 'MacOSX/Darwin on x86_64'</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Distribution: inst (compressed)</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Directory for temporary files: /tmp</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Installer revision: 37482</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Database revision: 37489</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Settings:</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> TEXDIR: "/usr/local/texlive/2015"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> TEXMFCONFIG: "~/Library/texlive/2015/texmf-config"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> TEXMFHOME: "~/Library/texmf"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> TEXMFLOCAL: "/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> TEXMFSYSCONFIG: "/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-config"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> TEXMFSYSVAR: "/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-var"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> TEXMFVAR: "~/Library/texlive/2015/texmf-var"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> binary_amd64-freebsd: "0"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> binary_amd64-netbsd: "0"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> binary_i386-cygwin: "0"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> binary_i386-freebsd: "0"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> binary_i386-linux: "0"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> binary_i386-netbsd: "0"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> binary_i386-solaris: "0"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> binary_sparc-solaris: "0"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> binary_universal-darwin: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> binary_win32: "0"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> binary_x86_64-cygwin: "0"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> binary_x86_64-darwin: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> binary_x86_64-linux: "0"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> binary_x86_64-solaris: "0"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-basic: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-bibtexextra: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-binextra: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-context: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-fontsextra: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-fontsrecommended: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-fontutils: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-formatsextra: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-games: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-genericextra: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-genericrecommended: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-htmlxml: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-humanities: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-langafrican: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-langarabic: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-langchinese: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-langcjk: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-langcyrillic: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-langczechslovak: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-langenglish: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-langeuropean: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-langfrench: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-langgerman: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-langgreek: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-langindic: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-langitalian: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-langjapanese: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-langkorean: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-langother: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-langpolish: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-langportuguese: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-langspanish: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-latex: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-latexextra: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-latexrecommended: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-luatex: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-mathextra: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-metapost: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-music: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-omega: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-pictures: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-plainextra: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-pstricks: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-publishers: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-science: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-texworks: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-wintools: "0"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> collection-xetex: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> doc_splitting_supported: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> in_place: "0"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> inst_platform: "x86_64-darwin"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> n_collections_available: "48"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> n_collections_selected: "47"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> n_systems_available: "14"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> n_systems_selected: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> option_adjustrepo: "0"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> option_autobackup: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> option_backupdir: "tlpkg/backups"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> option_desktop_integration: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> option_doc: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> option_file_assocs: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> option_fmt: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> option_letter: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> option_menu_integration: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> option_path: "0"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> option_post_code: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> option_src: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> option_sys_bin: "/usr/local/bin"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> option_sys_info: "/usr/local/share/info"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> option_sys_man: "/usr/local/share/man"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> option_w32_multi_user: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> option_write18_restricted: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> portable: "0"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> selected_scheme: "scheme-full"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> src_splitting_supported: "1"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> this_platform: "x86_64-darwin"</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> total_size: "0"</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Installing to: /usr/local/texlive/2015</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Installing [0001/3220, time/total: ??:??/??:??]: 12many [376k]</span></p><p class=""><span class="">untar: untarring /usr/local/texlive/2015/temp/12many.tar failed (in /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist)</span></p><p class=""><span class="">untarring /usr/local/texlive/2015/temp/12many.tar failed, stopping install.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Installation failed.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Rerunning the installer will try to restart the installation.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Or you can restart by running the installer with:</span></p><p class=""><span class=""> install-tl --profile installation.profile [EXTRA-ARGS]</span></p><p class=""><span class="">bash-3.2$ </span></p></div></div>
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