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I'm setting up newly installed Ubuntu 11.10 and working under its Unity desktop.<br>
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I ran into a problem with my installation of TeXLive2011.<br>
I chose to install this software by downloading it (from the TUG web site) <br>
because Synaptic offers only the outdated TexLive2009.<br>
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TeXLive's instructions tell us to move to the folder containing install-tl<br>
(so its full path is not necessary),<br>
to add the current folder to the PATH variable with the command,<br>
PATH=.:$PATH,<br>
and start the installer with the command,<br>
install-tl -gui wizard.<br>
The TeXLive installer opens, tries to install to <br>
/usr/local/texlive/2011<br>
and returns the message <br>
"default not allowed or not writeable - please change."<br>
I did not run into this problem awhile ago when I installed TexLive under Ubuntu 10.04.<br>
I checked that I'm working under an administrator account.<br>
I tried starting the installer with the command:<br>
sudo install-tl -gui wizard<br>
and got a "command not found" error.<br>
I tried logging in as root user with the command,<br>
sudo passwd root,<br>
started the TexLive installer as before,<br>
install-tl -gui wizard,<br>
and got the same response.<br>
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Please help me figure out where I've gone wrong.<br><br>
Many thanks and regards - Randy</div>
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