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I just tested with my Win8.1 VM without much problems.<br>
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Are there any special folder settings on that partition/drive?<br>
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Also I find this one a little strange<br>
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C<span lang="en-GB"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">annot get a temporary directory after five iterations
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Perhaps some of the more Windows capable people on the list can help with more suggestions<br>
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/Lars Madsen<br>
Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics<br>
Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University<br>
Mere info: <a href="http://au.dk/daleif@imf" tabindex="0">http://au.dk/daleif@math</a> / More information:
<a href="http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf" target="_blank">http://au.dk/en/daleif@math</a><br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF820077"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><b>From:</b> tex-live [tex-live-bounces@tug.org] on behalf of Michel Goossens [Michel.Goossens@cern.ch]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 23 June 2015 17:06<br>
<b>To:</b> tex-live@tug.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [tex-live] Error with TL 2015 (involving `floatrow')<br>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Hello, I just installed texlive 2015 on windows 8.1, which seemed to have installed correctly.</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">The root of the tl2015 tree is in the directory  g:\Experiments\sw\TeXLive\2015</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">However, when I try to run pdflatex, the format file is not found and cannot be generated.</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">C:\Users\goossens>pdflatex sample2e</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015/W32TeX) (preloaded</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">format=pdflatex)</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">restricted \write18 enabled.</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">The command name is g:\Experiments\sw\TeXLive\2015\bin\win32\mktexfmt</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Running the command g:\Experiments\sw\TeXLive\2015\bin\win32\fmtutil.exe</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence order):</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">fmtutil:   g:/experiments/sw/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing changes:</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">fmtutil:   c:/users/goossens/.texlive2015/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Cannot get a temporary directory after five iterations ... sorry! at g:/Experime</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">nts/sw/TeXLive/2015/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/fmtutil.pl line 303.</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">g:\Experiments\sw\TeXLive\2015\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:659: command failed with exit code 2:</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">perl.exe g:/Experiments/sw/TeXLive/2015/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/fmtutil.pl --byfmt pdflatex</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">When I want to run tlmgr, I also have problems, as detailed below</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">“tlmgr update –all” as a normal user (or as administrator, as shown below) does not get write access to the texlive directory.</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Does somebody experience the same problems?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">Thanks for your help. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">Regards, Michel Goossens</span></p>
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