[tex-live] tlmgr on Win10 fails

[Herbert Voss]

Am 18.11.18 um 21:02 schrieb Herbert Voss:
> Am 17.11.18 um 04:38 schrieb Norbert Preining:
> 
>> Do you have a program
>>     xz
>> installed in your Windows somewhere.
> 
> I'll forward it to our system administrator, because I am only
> on Friday in the computer lab. I'll report what happens.

Yes, that was/is the problem. a xz.exe from 2011. Now we must see
if we can simply replace that old version with a new one.

Herbert





> 
> thanks
> Herbert
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> This is also shown here:
>>> D:TLUtils::system_pipe: calling xz -dcf <
>>> "C:\Users\SC24CE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\2r_68Nzu2N\HZfB9CLG_V" >
>>> "C:\Users\SC24CE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\2r_68Nzu2N\k3wU8_yWPH"
>>> xz: (stdin): Compressed data is corrupt
>>> D:TLUtils::system_pipe: system exit code = 1
>>> D:xz C:\Users\SC24CE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\2r_68Nzu2N\HZfB9CLG_V failed,
>>> trying plain file
>>
>> So it seems that you have an outdated xz.exe somewhere, please check
>> that.
>>
>> On Fri, 16 Nov 2018, Karl Berry wrote:
>>> Norbert, I'm not sure about your comment about other tars not
>>> supporting these options. Any tar must support "xf", or it is not tar at
>>
>> The unpacking is not the problem, the making of the backup archives
>> before an update.
>>
>> Anyway, the problem is with xz, I am highly confident.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Norbert
>>
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