There is a bug in the install-tl-unx.tar.gz. I unpacked it, cd'd to the directory "install-tl-20130426", then did ./install-tl. I immediately get: Loading ./tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb ./install-tl: open(./tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb) failed: No such file or directory at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPDB.pm line 359.