[tex-live] Trying to install tex-live from the net

[Robin Fairbairns]

Ole Robert Hestvik <ole.robert.hestvik at gmail.com> wrote:

>     OK, we start again:
> 
> [oler at olex install-tl-20091118]$ ./install-tl
> ABORTED INSTALLATION FOUND: installation.profile
> Do you want to continue with the exact same settings as before (y/N): y
> Automated TeX Live installation using profile: installation.profile
> Installing TeX Live 2009 from:
> http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet
> [...]
> Installing [0001/1947, time/total: ??:??/??:??]: 12many [376k]
> Installing [0002/1947, time/total: 00:01/42:07]: ANUfinalexam [3k]
> Installing [0003/1947, time/total: 00:01/41:53]: AkkTeX [16k]
> Installing [0004/1947, time/total: 00:01/40:14]: Asana-Math [433k]
> ...
> 
>     After a while the installation aborts, in the same way as above.
> It was restarted again and again. The installation apparently
> proceeded. The question is, will it ever succeed?
>     What am I doing wrong?

expecting too much of the internet?

running a ctan host, i quite often find very large mirror transfers
failing and needing to be restarted.  you're asking for 1947 packages to
be downloaded, each of which may involve two or three files downloaded;
this is a lot to ask.

it will complete, eventually.  i would guess.

robin