[tex-live] Updating tlmgr on Windows 7

Diederick C. Niehorster dcnieho at gmail.com
Fri Jan 28 00:17:37 CET 2011


just a wild guess: could the problem be file permission since Win 7
got a lot more restrictive out of the box?

Best,
Dee

On 28/01/2011, T T <t34www at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 27 January 2011 16:30, Martin Schröder <martin at oneiros.de> wrote:
>> 2011/1/27 T T <t34www at googlemail.com>:
>>> Are you sure it crashes or simply terminates?  On windows tlmgr has to
>>
>> No.
>>
>>> quit, because it can't be updated while running.  What happens is that
>>> tlmgr makes a special batch update script on windows
>>> (C:\texlive\2010\temp\updater-w32.bat), which is run after it quits.
>>> Can you send us this script (if it's there)?  (Change extension from
>>> .bat to .txt or your email client may filter it).
>>
>> Attached.
>
> Thanks.  This script is actually from the command line run, which
> means the gui run didn't produce one, although it should if you see
> that dialog about termination (was there updater-w32 file w/o
> extension present by any chance?).  I will wait for Norbert's tests on
> win7.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tomek
>
>



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