[EXT] Re: TL 2024 cannot be installed on some Windows computers

[Denis Bitouzé]

Hi Philip,

Le 15/05/24 à 12h03, Philip Taylor (RHBNC) a écrit :

> It just so happens that I have a copy of texlive2024.iso on my primary Windows
> 7 machine, and on mounting it as my W: drive I see under "archive" the file
> "tlperl.windows.r69939.tar.xz".  Being a Windows user, I accept the default
> "open" action, which is to open it using "WinRAR", and WinRAR shews me that it
> contains a top-level directory "tlpkg".  I can then extract "tlpkg" and all of
> its contents to a temporary directory, and no problems are encountered.  This
> suggests to me, Denis, that your "tar" program may be the source of your
> problem.

In fact, I didn't encounter any problems :) except that I couldn't get
the intermediate file tlperl.windows.r69939.tar for which Nelson gave
the checksum md5sum that I wanted to check on the student's
computer. I just obtained the same result as you: the "tlpkg" folder and
all of its contents.
-- 
Denis