[tex-live] Installation issue on windows 7 with latest install-tl

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2012-03-11 at 18:31:55 +0100, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:

 > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 02:25:46PM +0100, Erwan Le Pennec wrote:
 > >     Dear all,
 > > 
 > >     I've tried to install texlive 2011 on a new laptop which is on
 > > windows 7. I've downloaded the latest install-tl (09/03/2012). When
 > > I launch install-tl.bat (or its advanced flavor), there is an error
 > > message stating that "perl has stopped"... Is there anything I can
 > > do to help solving this issue?
 > 
 > Not sure.  Does it happen right at the start?
 > 
 > Otherwise, there should be a logfile in the root of the
 > installation, e.g.  c:\texlive\2011\install-tl.log.
 > 
 > You can get a bit more information by starting install-tl-advanced
 > from a command prompt and adding a parameter `-v':
 > 
 > <path to>\install-tl-advanced -v
 > 
 > Then you can also copy-and-paste screen output into your answer in
 > case it contains relevant stuff that didn't make it to the logfile.
 > Or provide a screenshot.

Having more information would be nice.  Maybe apply the -v option
twice for maximum verbosity.

On the other hand, I have the impression that this error message is
triggered by Windows, hence it's possible that Perl doesn't even
notice that something doesn't work as expected.

I googled for this error message yesterday but didn't find any
solution.  However, an R user obviously had the same problem and he
said that an upgrade to the latest Perl solved the problem for him.
But I doubt that an upgrade helps because he upgraded to Strawberry
Perl 5.12.1 and TL-2011 already has 5.12.3.

It would also be helpful to know whether there is another instance of
Perl installed on the system already.  Someone reported that the error
was caused by an other instance of Perl.  In this case the cause of
the problem was that wrong DLLs were found.  However, the way TeX Live
invokes its own Perl is quite robust.  But it's better to know though.

Anyway, in order to find out whether it's a Perl issue, I copied a
.zip file containing the Perl shipped with TL-2010 to

  http://tug.org/~kotucha/tlperl-TL2010.zip

Erwan, what you can try is to go to the directory tlpkg (in the
installer tree) and uncompress tlperl-TL2010.zip there.  Then rename
the directory tlperl to something else and rename tlperl-TL2010 to
tlperl.

I'm not sure whether the current installer works with an older Perl,
but it would be nice to know whether you get further even if it
crashes with an error message from Perl rather than with "perl.exe has
stopped working", which most likely comes from Windows.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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