[tex-live] installing tex-live

[Marion Wenty]

hi,
in the end i downloaded the iso-file, burned a dvd and installed texlive
from there and this worked without any problems!
thank you all very much for your help!
marion

2011/8/8 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>

> 2011/8/8 Marion Wenty <marion.wenty at gmail.com>:
> > hello,
> > thank you for your reply. i tried to find the syntax in the
> > manual http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.pdf but
> couldn't
> > find it (or on other sites) ... also, i do not know if i have to write it
> > into the prompt of the utilities menu? and, i don't know where to i can
> copy
> > it to because the programme takes up so much space.
> > marion
> >
> If you just copy the tree, you have no menu, it will be created by
> tlmgr. You have to use the command prompt. First you have to locate
> the directory where TL was installed. It will probably be in a
> directory named texlive and the name of the important directory is
> 2011. You have to copy this tree (and optionally also texmf-local, but
> it will probably be empty after fresh install). After you copy it to
> your computer, change directory:
>
> cd ...\texlive\2011\bin\win32
>
> This directory contains among others tlmgr.exe. Now try:
>
> tlmgr --help
>
> This will display the manual. I have had no time to install TL 2011
> yet but I hope it is more or less the same as in TL 2010. Two actions
> are important for you, this is the help of 2010:
>
>       path [--w32mode=user│admin] [add│remove]
>
>       On Unix adds or removes symlinks for binaries, man pages, and
> info pages in the directories specified by the
>       respective options (see above).
>
>       On Windows, the registry part where the binary directory is
> added or removed is determined in the following
>       way:
>
>       If the user has admin rights, and the option "--w32mode" is not
> given, the setting w32_multi_user determines
>       the location (i.e., if it is on then the system path, otherwise
> the user path is changed).
>
>       If the user has admin rights, and the option "--w32mode" is
> given, this option determines the path to be
>       adjusted.
>
>       If the user does not have admin rights, and the option
> "--w32mode" is not given, and the setting
>       w32_multi_user is off, the user path is changed, while if the
> setting w32_multi_user is on, a warning is
>       issued that the caller does not have enough privileges.
>
>       If the user does not have admin rights, and the option
> "--w32mode" is given, it must be user and the user path
>       will be adjusted. If a user without admin rights uses the
> option "--w32mode admin" a warning is issued that
>       the caller does not have enough provileges.
>
>       postaction [--w32mode=user│admin] [--fileassocmode=1│2] [--all]
> [install│remove] [shortcut│fileassoc│script]
>       [pkg]...
>
>       Carry out the postaction "shortcut", "fileassoc", or "script"
> given as the second required argument in install
>       or remove mode (which is the first required argument), for
> either the packages given on the command line, or
>       for all if "--all" is given.
>
>       The option "--w32mode" is "user" all actions will only carried
> out in the user accessible parts of the reg-
>       istry/filesystem, while the "admin" mode selects the system
> wide parts of the registry for the file associa-
>       tions.  Note that if you do not have enough permissions using
> "--w32mode=admin" will not succeed.
>
>       For the postaction "fileassoc" the mode can be set with
> "--fileassocmode".  If it is set to 1, only new asso-
>       cations are added, if it is set to 2, all associations are set
> to the TeX Live programs.
>
> After "tlmgr path ..." and "tlmgr postaction ..." it should work.
>
> > 2011/8/8 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> 2011/8/8 Marion Wenty <marion.wenty at gmail.com>:
> >> > hi,
> >> > thank you for the tip about staying on the list.
> >> > yes, there is a firewall on this computer at work.
> >> akeaa> months ago and it worked! (i only had to get rid of some old
> >> programms
> >> > because it took up a lot of space. i have tried to take the
> installation
> >> > directory from home to work and install this one on the computer at
> work
> >> > but
> >> > i didn't succeed. is there another way, how to get the programm from
> >> > home to
> >> > work?
> >> > Marion
> >> >
> >> Yes, you can copy the whole tree where TL is installed. In *nix
> >> systems you just set PATH, in Windows you will have to call "tlmgr
> >> postaction" to create shortcuts, menus etc. I do not remember the
> >> syntax but you find it in the manual.
> >> >
> >> > 2011/8/4 Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr>
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> (please stay on list, so that others can help too)
> >> >>
> >> >> Le 04/08/2011 15:30, Marion Wenty a écrit :
> >> >> > thank you very much for your answer.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > i tried 3 different mirrors, but i always got the same error
> message
> >> >> > ...
> >> >> >
> >> >> Ok, so it looks like the network issue isn't on the mirror's side.
> Are
> >> >> you
> >> >> behind a proxy, firewall or something? Is it possible for you to try
> >> >> installing
> >> >> from a different location (home vs work or something)?
> >> >>
> >> >> Manuel.
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Zdeněk Wagner
> >> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
> >> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
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