Impossible to use TL 2023 on Windows

[Lars Madsen]

Have you checked the system path?

I've that that issue when someone replaced the PATH instead of adding to it. Though last I saw this was on Win7.

You can get the same error if you open a terminal and run the cmd command. If it cannot then the PATH might be wrong.



Lars Madsen
Programmør

Institut for Matematik
Aarhus Universitet

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From: tex-live <tex-live-bounces+daleif=imf.au.dk at tug.org> on behalf of Denis Bitouzé <denis.bitouze at univ-littoral.fr>
Sent: 11 May 2023 12:41
To: tex-live at tug.org <tex-live at tug.org>
Subject: Impossible to use TL 2023 on Windows

Hi,

a student of mine used to have a working TL 2021 on Windows (10). He
just removed it (using Add/Remove Programs) and installed TL 2023 (as
administrator).

But, since then, it is impossible to run LaTeX. For instance, in the
terminal (`cmd.exe`), `pdflatex test` tries to regenerate the pdflatex
format (`pdflatex.fmt`) but fails with the error:

  ┌────
  │ Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at
  │ c:\texlive\...\fmtutil.pl line 727.
  └────

Any help would be greatly appreciated: my student is desperate!

Thanks!
--
Denis

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