resuming install of latex on windows 10

Peter Flynn peter at silmaril.ie
Sat Mar 7 01:15:58 CET 2020


On 06/03/2020 22:29, political science wrote:
> I am trying to install Latex on Windows 10.

1. Did you read http://tug.org/texlive/windows.html
2. Do you have any previous version of TeX installed?

> I downloaded 
> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-windows.exe this 
> 18 mb file and just double clicked on it. 

Did you check the SHA checksum to make sure it downloaded intact?

> and after some time it gets stuck
> 
> |TLUtils::check_file: checksums differ for 
> C:\Users\Debian\AppData\Local\Temp\rUZv0haGA6\WhWljBRB_5/dviout.win32.tar.xz: 

This looks like a corruption to me, which is why I asked about the 
checksum, but I'm not familiar with Windows.

> what should now I do to proceed from here?

You have done right to ask TeXhax; you could also look at 
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/321650/texlive-installation-aborted-after-hours-of-installation-restarting-without-dup

Peter


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