cannot install texlive

[Bradley D. Keister]

I finally bailed out…

I’m running Ubuntu Linux on top of Google Chrome in a Chromebook.  I wouldn’t expect that to be a problem, perhaps the problem was that I had everything on a microUSB card.  Each time I tried to install (always as root), it would go for a while, then quit (always at a different point), and I’ve had to start over.

The only thing that ‘worked’ was simply to download the complete .iso, mount it, then install from there.  I didn’t get any errors, but then when I tried to compile a .tex file using an older (version 4.0) revtex, it complained, and I had to figure out how to install that.  Then I found other missing packages from what I thought was a ‘complete’ installation.

At that point I bailed out and simply ran “apt install livetex” using the Ubuntu package manager.  It and a few other packages had what I needed, and of course it automatically resolves any dependency issues.

But thanks for your interest.

Best wishes,
Brad

> On Feb 23, 2023, at 5:37 PM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
> 
>    fatal: getcwd failed: No such file or directory
> 
> That error message looks like it's coming from kpathsea. It's calling
> getcwd() (from kpathsea/xgetcwd.c), and getcwd is failing. This does not
> normally happen.
> 
> Thus I surmise there is something unusual in how you are calling the
> installer. Are you calling the installer from some kind of temporary or
> anonymous or virtual directory? Does /bin/pwd succeed in that directory?
> 
> As you've seen, I doubt it has anything to do with the mirror, or gpg. But for
> purposes of debugging, you could try running
>  ./install-tl --no-verify-downloads
> 
> Just to see if it gets any further, and/or different error messages are
> reported. --best, karl.