[tex-live] Error in installing Tex

Prashanti Manda manda.prashanti at gmail.com
Mon Oct 25 21:23:54 CEST 2010


I got it to work by using one of the repositories from the pretest sites.

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk> wrote:

> On 2010-10-25 19:11, Prashanti Manda wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi Norbert,
>> Most of the mirrors are causing problems with the installer.
>> I tried the -repository option with these
>> http://mirrors.med.harvard.edu/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/
>> http://mirror.math.ku.edu/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/
>> The installer cycles through the mirrors that are present in the
>> database. I tried running the installer over and over again to check
>> other repositories, but i get the same problem of mismatch install
>> files. Can i have a link to the old installer linking to 2009 install
>> files.
>> Thanks,
>> Prashanti
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at
>> <mailto:preining at logic.at>> wrote:
>>
>>    On Mi, 13 Okt 2010, Prashanti Manda wrote:
>>     > the installation media do not agree:
>>     > source: 2010
>>     > media: 2009
>>     > Please report to tex-live at tug.org <mailto:tex-live at tug.org>
>>
>>     >
>>     > What do I do to get past it ?
>>     >
>>
>>    Your CTAN mirror is out of date, please check mirror.ctan.org
>>    <http://mirror.ctan.org>
>>
>>    for a different mirror, and pass it to the installer with
>>            -repository ....
>>    Can you tell us which mirror was used (that is written at the beginning
>>    of the installation on the top).
>>
>>    Best wishes
>>
>>    Norbert
>>
>>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>    Norbert Preining            preining@{jaist.ac.jp
>>    <http://jaist.ac.jp>, logic.at <http://logic.at>, debian.org
>>    <http://debian.org>}
>>
>>    JAIST, Japan                                 TeX Live & Debian
>> Developer
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>> B094
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>>
>>
> interestingly I just had a user reporting this. I know he is using TL09,
> and was trying to update it, then he got the
>
>
> the installation media do not agree:
> source: 2010
> media: 2009
>
> message
>
> So a better setup might be needed such that the old tlmgr's would stop
> working more gracefully
>
>
> /daleif
>
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