[tex-live] Installation problem on Windows 10

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 14:43:05 CEST 2017


Thank you and sorry for the noise, I just have not seen this error
message before. It turned out that for some reason I have downloaded a
corrupted file. After repeated download everything worked as expected.

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


2017-04-13 14:14 GMT+02:00 Siep Kroonenberg <siepo at cybercomm.nl>:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 01:51:42PM +0200, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 01:45:01PM +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I have tried to install TL on Windows 10 (Czech localisation). I have
>> > downloaded install-tl-windows.exe, stored it on our NAS and first
>> > tried to run it by clicking to its icon. It did not work, so I tried
>> > to start it from my USB stick again by clicking. It did not work
>> > either so I opened a DOS window, tried from the USB stick but with the
>> > same result. I have copied the file to the HD but the result was the
>> > same. In all attempts I only got a blue window saying that "this
>> > application cannot run on your computer". This is not my computer, I
>> > am installing TL to a colleague of mine and I do not know Windows 10
>> > and do not know how to find a relevant information in order to find
>> > the reason of the problem.
>>
>> I have no idea, but you can try to download the zipfile. The exe is
>> just a small wrapper around the zipfile.
>
> For completeness: the exe installer is not generally incompatible
> with Windows 10.
>
> --
> Siep Kroonenberg



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