[tex-live] bug report: unusable location

[Zdenek Wagner]

It is a bit hidden in the instructions that -location must be given
explicitely for the pretest version.

2009/8/8 Joseph Wright <joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk>:
> 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
>



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