[tex-live] install texlive 2009 on cygwin

Steven Woody narkewoody at gmail.com
Sat Dec 19 17:39:25 CET 2009


On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Steven Woody <narkewoody at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In my office computer, I have texlive 2009 windows installation. It
> works fine.  But in my home computer, because I've already have cygwin
> 1.7 installed, I want to try texlive 2009 with normal Unix style
> installation.  But the result is strange.  I did not see an error in
> the process of installation, but I found the directory "
> /usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/i386-cygwin/" have many files that are
> with size of zero and not with executable bit set as expected.
>
> $ ls -l /usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/i386-cygwin/
>
> total 41041
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2008-05-14 07:33 a2ping
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-04-11 08:17 afm2afm
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 narke None   80910 2009-10-04 02:13 afm2pl.exe
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 narke None   87054 2009-10-04 02:13 afm2tfm.exe
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 narke None  502798 2009-10-04 02:13 aleph.exe
> ....
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 narke None    3482 2009-05-08 02:37 allcm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-05-08 02:37 allec
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 narke None     903 2009-05-08 02:37 allneeded
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-10-04 02:13 amstex
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 narke None 5684224 2009-10-03 05:03 asy.exe
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-04-11 08:17 autoinst
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 narke None    9230 2009-10-04 02:13 bbox.exe
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-05-08 02:37 bg5+latex
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-05-08 02:37 bg5+pdflatex
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 narke None    5646 2009-10-04 02:13 bg5conv.exe
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 narke None    1216 2009-05-08 02:37 bg5latex
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 narke None     552 2009-05-08 02:37 fontinst
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-03-24 01:31 fragmaster
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 narke None  196096 2009-06-23 06:44 freeglut.dll
> ...
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 narke None   82446 2009-10-04 02:13 gftype.exe
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 narke None   78862 2009-10-04 02:13 gsftopk.exe
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 narke None   90638 2009-10-04 02:13 hbf2gf.exe
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-07-04 01:08 ht
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2008-05-12 09:17 htcontext
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2008-05-12 09:17 htlatex
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2008-05-12 09:17 htmex
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2008-05-12 09:17 httex
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2008-05-12 09:17 httexi
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2008-05-12 09:17 htxelatex
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2008-05-12 09:17 htxetex
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-10-04 02:13 lamed
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-10-04 02:13 latex
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2008-11-14 01:43 latex2man
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-08-22 07:50 latexmk
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-09-05 02:36 listings-ext.sh
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-10-04 02:13 lualatex
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 narke None   96782 2009-10-04 02:13 luatangle.exe
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 narke None 5073934 2009-10-04 02:13 luatex.exe
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 narke None 1767438 2009-10-04 02:13 xindy-lisp.exe
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None 1039346 2009-10-04 02:13 xindy.mem
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-10-04 02:13 xmltex
> ...
> -rw-r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-08-23 19:11 xmltools
>
>
> My disk space is enough.  And, attached is my install-tl.log
>
>
> Could anyone know what's the possible cause? Thanks
>

And, I also noticed a minute ago, that my texlive 2009 iso image (the
*.iso.xz file downloaded from the net) may have some prblem:

G:\bin\i386-cygwin:

total 40862
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2008-05-14 07:33 a2ping
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-04-11 08:17 afm2afm
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None   80910 2009-10-04 02:13 afm2pl.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None   87054 2009-10-04 02:13 afm2tfm.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None  502798 2009-10-04 02:13 aleph.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None    3482 2009-05-08 02:37 allcm
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-05-08 02:37 allec
...
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None   33806 2009-10-04 02:13 dt2dv.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None   11790 2009-10-04 02:13 dv2dt.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None    1098 2009-05-08 02:37 dvi2fax
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None   21518 2009-10-04 02:13 dvi2tty.exe
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2008-06-01 00:50 dviasm
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None   25614 2009-10-04 02:13 dvibook.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None   23566 2009-10-04 02:13 dviconcat.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None  108046 2009-10-04 02:13 dvicopy.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None   15886 2009-10-04 02:13 dvidvi.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None       0 2009-10-04 02:13 dvigif.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None    4591 2009-05-08 02:37 dvihp
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None  102414 2009-10-04 02:13 dvilj.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None  102926 2009-10-04 02:13 dvilj2p.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None  110094 2009-10-04 02:13 dvilj4.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None  110094 2009-10-04 02:13 dvilj4l.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None       0 2009-10-04 02:13 dvilj6.exe
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-10-04 02:13 dvilualatex
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-10-04 02:13 dviluatex
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None       0 2009-10-04 02:13 dvipdfm.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None  715790 2009-10-04 02:13 dvipdfmx.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None    2688 2009-06-12 07:26 dvipdft
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None  960526 2009-10-04 02:13 dvipng.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None   97294 2009-10-04 02:13 dvipos.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None  222222 2009-10-04 02:13 dvips.exe
...
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-10-04 02:13 lamed
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-10-04 02:13 latex
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2008-11-14 01:43 latex2man
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-08-22 07:50 latexmk
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-09-05 02:36 listings-ext.sh
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-10-04 02:13 lualatex
...
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None   67598 2009-10-04 02:13 tie.exe
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-10-11 16:00 tlmgr
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-08-23 19:11 tmftools
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None   11068 2009-05-08 02:37 tpic2pdftex
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None   87054 2009-10-04 02:13 ttf2afm.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None  228366 2009-10-04 02:13 ttf2pk.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None  247310 2009-10-04 02:13 ttf2tfm.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None   54286 2009-10-04 02:13 ttfdump.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None  339982 2009-10-04 02:13 ttftotype42.exe
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-06-12 07:06 ulqda
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None   47769 2009-07-25 07:17 updmap
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None     829 2009-05-08 02:37 updmap-sys
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-10-04 02:13 utf8mex
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None  106510 2009-10-04 02:13 vftovp.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None   11790 2009-10-04 02:13 vlna.exe
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2008-05-14 07:33 vpe
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-04-11 07:37 vpl2ovp
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-04-11 07:37 vpl2vpl
...
-r-xr-xr-x 1 narke None 1767438 2009-10-04 02:13 xindy-lisp.exe
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None 1039346 2009-10-04 02:13 xindy.mem
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-10-04 02:13 xmltex
-r--r--r-- 1 narke None       0 2009-08-23 19:11 xmltools


Why there are also many files in the ISO image get size of zero?
Because it is a xz compressed file, so I assume there is no chance it
can be corrupted.


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