[tex-live] Installing TeXLive2008 on Cygwin

Angelo Graziosi angelo.graziosi at alice.it
Tue Aug 26 01:39:26 CEST 2008


Perhaps there was a misunderstanding.

The suggestions of George was to rsync my _local_ Win32 installation
with my _local_ Cygwin build.

In any case,

Thanks a lot.
     Angelo


Philip TAYLOR ha scritto:
> 
> 
> Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> 
>  > May you give an example of using rsync?
> 
> I used "rsync" for the first time today,
> starting with the URL to be found in
> 
>     ftp://tug.org/texlive/Images/test/README
> 
> (i.e., rsync://tug.org/texlive-Images/test/texlivetest2008.iso.lzma)
> 
> The final period in the web page version of the above is
> an error, and the file seems not to exist, but at least
> I now knew the syntax.
> 
> I then fetched RSYNC as a part of the DeltaCopy package :
> 
>     http://www.aboutmyip.com/files/DeltaCopy.zip
> 
> found the GUI too complex, and experimented with the
> command-line version until I found a syntax that would work,
> using my guess at the RSYNC address of the Cambridge CTAN
> node, modified to fetch the entire TeX Live network installation
> suite :
> 
>     rsync rsync://rsync.tex.ac.uk/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008/
> 
> Finally I discovered that in order to actually fetch the files,
> rather than just list them, one has to append a destination path :
> 
>     rsync rsync://rsync.tex.ac.uk/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008/ .
> 
> (Note final space and period).
> 
> This has the effect of mirroring (once) the Cambridge TeX Live
> Network installer suite to the current directory and sub-directories
> thereof.
> 
> Hope that helps :
> Philip TAYLOR



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