[tex-live] bug report: unusable location

[Joseph Wright]

Vit Zyka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I send a bug report of TeX Live 2009 on Platworm Windows XP (line wrap
> by copying):
> 
> ------------------------------
> C:\tmp\install-tl>install-tl
> PATH=C:\tmp\install-tl\tlpkg\tlperl\bin;C:\bin;C:\programs\ruby\bin;C:\programs\
> 
> ImageMagick-6.5.3-Q16;;C:\program\perl\site\bin;C:\program\perl\bin;C:\programs\
> 
> matlab65\bin\win32;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Lenovo;C:\Program
> Files\ThinkPa
> d\ConnectUtilities;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\Pr
> 
> ogram
> Files\ThinkPad\Utilities;C:\programs\perl\bin;C:\programs\perl\site\bin;C:
> \programs\quicktime\QTSystem\
> Installing TeX Live 2009 from:
> http://ftp.cvut.cz/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tl
> net
> Platform: win32 => 'Windows'
> Distribution: net  (downloading)
> Using URL: http://ftp.cvut.cz/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet
> Directory for temporary files: C:/DOCUME~1/vit/LOCALS~1/Temp
> Loading
> http://ftp.cvut.cz/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
> 
> unusable location
> http://ftp.cvut.cz/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/tex
> live.tlpdb, could not load any packages
> C:\tmp\install-tl\install-tl: Could not load TeX Live Database from
> http://ftp.c
> vut.cz/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet, goodbye.
> Press any key to continue . . .
> ------------------------------
> 
> I have tried another location like www.cstug.cz/... or
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet
> The result was always negative and the same.
> 
> Vit Zyka
> 
> 

You don't seem to have given it a correct -location: the testing release
needs to be told this (I made the same mistake initially!). Pick one at:

http://www.tug.org/texlive/mirmon/

and do, for example:

install-tl -location http://texlive.guiling.fr
-- 
Joseph Wright