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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Dear list</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Following Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard's helpful
message of 9 November, I've finally got round to installing the 2008
distribution of XeTeX on a spare computer running Windows XP Pro (jealously
guarding my 2007 installation until I'm sure all is OK). Immediately after
installation I typed</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>tlmgr option location <A
href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008">http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008</A><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">But at the next line of Manuel's instruction,
viz.:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>tlmgr update bin-texlive texlive.infra</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">the routine fails, producing the following
error message on screen:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Cannot read any package from <A
href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><A
href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb">http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008</FONT></A>/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb</A>,
seems not to be a TLPDB! Cannot load Tex Live database from <A
href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008</FONT></A><BR> at
c:/program Files/texlive/2008/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl line
616</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">And thus I never get to the third element of
Manuel's instructions, viz.:</FONT></DIV>
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face="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT><BR>tlmgr
update --all<BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">I've tried it a couple of times, and the same
error is produced. Is it a bug, or do I just give up and go over to a Mac?
(!) I would certainly like to be able to acquire the latest version
painlessly, whenever a new element is added that would be of use to
me.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Best</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">John</FONT></DIV>
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