[tex-live] TeX Live on Win10

[Zdenek Wagner]

Hi,

there is an important difference between Windows Home and Windows Pro.
Windows Home do not allow to set different permissions for different users.
Thus any user can write to C:\.  Windows Pro allow to set permissions and
in the default setup only system and administrators can write to C:\. Most
computers have incorrect setup so that an administrative account is used
for everyday work (the user is in the "administrators" group). If the
user's account is set properly, he/she is not allowed to create C:\texlive.


Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz

2016-04-25 15:33 GMT+02:00 Lars Madsen <daleif at math.au.dk>:

> I'm still waiting for the error message (I do not know his name, so I
> cannot send him an email).
>
> The error clearly stated that TL could not create c:\texlive
>
> it did not present an alternative interface (we were using the simple
> installer, the user had first tried the .exe, I prefer to download the zip
> and run it from there)
>
>
> /Lars Madsen
> Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
> Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
> Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@math / More information:
> http://au.dk/en/daleif@math
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: tex-live <tex-live-bounces at tug.org> on behalf of Siep Kroonenberg <
> siepo at cybercomm.nl>
> Sent: 25 April 2016 15:12
> To: tex-live at tug.org
> Subject: Re: [tex-live] TeX Live on Win10
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:15:09AM +0000, Lars Madsen wrote:
> > Hi, a student just came by with a Win10 (he'll get back to me with the
> OS details)
> >
> > He wanted to install TL15 on it, and the installer crashed because he
> did not have access to create c:\texlive
> > (seemed to work fine when we used run as administrator)
> >
> > I've just never seen this issue on newer windows computers where the
> user is the only user on the system.
> >
> > just FYI
>
> Crashed? The installer should check first whether it is possible to
> create c:\texlive, and if not, let the user choose something else.
>
> Another possibility is that Windows needs time to become aware of
> the directory that it just created. Sounds crazy, but I have seen it
> happen.  Can the user create c:\texlive manually?
>
>
> --
> Siep Kroonenberg
>
>
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