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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Ron RJF Fehd wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:monospace,monospace">for Windows
installation</div>
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style="font-family:monospace,monospace">remember to
right-click on <tl-install.exe> (sp?) <br>
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style="font-family:monospace,monospace">and choose:<br>
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style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Run as administrator<br
clear="all">
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<div style="font-family:monospace,monospace"
class="gmail_default">There are a number of programs run by
the installer</div>
<div style="font-family:monospace,monospace"
class="gmail_default">and they need read/write privileges in
order to complete.</div>
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<div style="font-family:monospace,monospace"
class="gmail_default">in particular: ls-R</div>
<div style="font-family:monospace,monospace"
class="gmail_default">which is the list of folders to search
for <br>
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<div style="font-family:monospace,monospace"
class="gmail_default">classes (*.cls)</div>
<div style="font-family:monospace,monospace"
class="gmail_default">and packages (*.sty), etc.<br>
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Although I personally always install TeX Live as administrator, not
everyone does, and Siep Kroonenberg, who knows more about TeX Live
installation than most people, wrote earlier this year :<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 08:09:37PM +0000, Philip Taylor wrote:
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<pre wrap="">No difference. Still ERROR on "Update all". And deleting the old "tlperl"
hierarchy was non-trivial; I had to accept UAC prompts, but then it told me
that I needed permission from myself, which it appeared not to have, so in
the end I had to delete nested contents before I could eventually delete the
directories themselves ...
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<pre wrap="">The horrors of UAC and NTFS permissions... It might have been simpler
just to rename tlperl.
Do you <span class="moz-txt-underscore"><span class="moz-txt-tag">_</span>need<span class="moz-txt-tag">_</span></span> an admin install?</pre>
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suggesting (to me at least) that "Install as administrator" is (a)
not necessary, and (b) possibly undesirable.<br>
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Philip Taylor<br>
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