[tex-live] problems installing TL08 on WinXP

[Maxwell, Adam R]

On 08/14/08 06:11, "George N. White III" <gnwiii at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Maxwell, Adam R <adam.maxwell at pnl.gov> wrote:
> 
>> I tried using the bootstrap installer as recommended by this page:
>> 
>> http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tldev/README
>> 
>> to install TL 2008 on a Windows XP Pro system, but the install fails.  It
>> looks like none of the formats are created, and manual attempts to run
>> updmap-sys or tlmgr from the Windows shell result in " No appropriate script
>> found." messages.  Log file attached.
>> 
>> I first tried a medium install with some additional packages added via the
>> installer GUI, then tried a full install with the same results.  Let me know
>> if I can provide additional info; using Windows is not my forte.  I'm using
>> TL08 on Mac OS X, and was hoping to get a Windows-using colleague to use it
>> as well.
> 
> Did your colleague have some other version of TeX installed?  There may be
> some environment variables that conflict with the new version.

I'm actually using my own Windows box as a guinea pig, since I don't care if
it has a working TeX; now that you mention it, I have (had) an old version
of MikTeX installed on it.  I'd checked environment variables and didn't see
anything obviously fishy.

> I see that the
> install directory is "C:\Program Files\\texlive\2008\bin\win32".  While this
> should work, I think some ConTeXt tools have problems with the space in
> the path, so I used F:\texlive\2008 for my own (more successful) testing.

Installing to "Program Files" was the default setting, which I thought was
odd as well.  I actually tried redoing the install rooted at c:\texlive\2008
and had the same failure, though.

> The problems appear to start with:
> 
> [...]
> running mktexlsr C:/Program Files/texlive/2008/texmf-var
> running updmap-sys... updmap.bat: updmap: No appropriate script found.
> done
> re-running mktexlsr C:/Program Files/texlive/2008/texmf-var
> [...]
> 
> After this the installer attempts to create formats, but the input files
> also aren't found.   Maybe the ls-R files were't really generated, or
> there is a problem with searching those files, so

So I started removing MikTeX before reading all of your message, and that
process was barely underway when I tried rerunning mktexlsr.  I was able to
run mktexlsr and updmap-sys successfully at that time, so this was either
due to MikTeX or failure of mktexlsr during install.  I also ran tlmgr and
used it to generate formats, so things seem to be working fine now.  Sorry I
can't nail down the problem more specifically, but thanks a lot for the
hints!  I'll try reinstalling without MikTeX and see if it succeeds.

thanks,
Adam