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<p>There are Windows machines that are only accessible via a
command-line or are not accessible<br>
at all but are automatically steered.<br>
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CI/CD Servers are just one example of those. <br>
These require unattended, no-gui ways to install software.<br>
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So please, just accept that some people do have the need for this,
even if you cannot see it.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13.09.20 18:52, Philip Taylor wrote:<br>
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<p>Fair enough, Naveen, but personally I cannot see why one would
<i>want</i> to install LaTeX using the command-line. The
"Install-TL-{Advanced|Windows}.bat" files are all I ever use,
and I launch one or the other from Windows Explorer by
right-clicking and selecting "Run as administrator". I then
perform a full install, even though I use less than 0.01% of the
files installed. I have been doing this since 2008, if not
earlier (I have archives only going back to 2018, but may well
have been installing it before that). It may be worth
mentioning that for speed of installation I first "rsynch" the
entire TeX Live installation suite to an SSD and then install
from there rather than pulling files one by one from the net.<br>
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<p><i>Philip Taylor<br>
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Naveen M K wrote:<br>
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<div>I don't think what you are saying is True. I personally
know many people use chocolatey, especially installing MikTex,
but many fail, I don't know why. At first many windows users
don't know about TexLive, and always seek to Miktex. Now here,
that's not the problem. The main problem is that LaTex can't
be installed easily on Windows using command line. Say for
example you are running GitHub Actions, will the UI be any
help for you, will you be able to install LaTeX for testing
there? Currently it would, be difficult and you would need to
have some experience on TexLive and only then you can install
it by creating profiles and using tlmgr. I exactly faced this
difficulty when I took the responsibility for testing Manim, <a
href="https://github.com/manimcommunity/manim"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/manimcommunity/manim</a>
which depends on LaTeX. It took me a week's time searching for
alternatives and finally I found TinyTex where he provided a
script to install TexLive. After that, I read some docs of
TexLive (People usually won't do this), and only then I came
to know that it can be installed using command line. I have
seen many projects failed to test on windows because they
could install LaTeX. Here, the Chocolatey package would be
very helpful ( All CI has chocolatey installed). So creating
it may potentially help many projects to test their projects,
on Windows. That's the reason I was very interested on this
because I have a *good* heart that others should not feel the
pain I faced. <br>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Naveen</div>
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