[tex-live] Installation problems on Windows Vista

Siep Kroonenberg siepo at cybercomm.nl
Mon Dec 1 12:19:51 CET 2008


On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:03:28PM +0100, Andreas Hirsch wrote:
> Today I decided to upgrade vom TL2007 to TL2008.
> 
> After two complete install-processes I'm very frustrated :-(
> 13)
> 
> tlmgr at the console does not work :-(
> 
> error message:
> 
> C:\Windows\system32>tlmgr update -all
> TeXLive::TLUtils::setup_programs failed at
> D:/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm l
> ine 1193, <TMP> line 99848.
> D:\texlive\tlpkg\installer\wget\wget.exe --version failed (status 256):
> Output is:
> wget: WGETRC points to D:/texlive/tlpkg/installer/wgetrc, which doesn't
> exist.
> Couldn't set up the necessary programs.
> Installation of packages is not supported.
> Please report to texlive at tug.org.
> tlmgr: exiting unsuccessfully (status 1).
> 
> C:\Windows\system32>

It seems that Norbert just fixed this problem. Give the fix a few
days to turn up on CTAN...

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg


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