[tex-live] (Installation Problem)
Philip TAYLOR
Philip-and-LeKhanh at Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org
Thu Feb 19 00:18:23 CET 2009
Steve MC Han wrote:
> Hi Philip,
>
> Thank you for your detailed responses.
You're welcome. I'm keeping the TeX-Live
team copied in on this, because they are
the ones who will need to bail you out
if I get stuck :-)
> There is no C:\Program, instead there is C:\Program1 (it was created by
> PC when it was turned on after installation) which contains many tex
> related files such as
>
> bibtex
> bin
> dvips
> fonts
> metapost
That is /very/ interesting. I think that TeX Live 2008
would have created higher-level directories than those,
call things such as "texmf-dist". If you have no such
directory, then the TeX installation under C:\Program1
is possibly nothing to do with TeX Live but is perhaps
related to some other TeX installation (e.g., MikTeX).
> C:\>set
[...]
> Path=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Program
> Files\Co
> mmon Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio
> Shared\DLL
> Shared;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio
> Shared\9.0\DLLShared;C:\Program Files
> \ESTsoft\ALZip;C:\Program Files\ESTsoft\ALZip;C:\Program
> Files\texlive\2008\bin\
> win32;C:\Program\bin\win32
[...]
> C:\>
Also interesting : two different places where TeX executables
will be sought (C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\bin\win32; C:\Program\bin\win32)
It looks as if you have two installations, one of which
may work (the one under C:\Program Files\texlive\2008)
and one of which almost certainly won't.
> I installed WinEdt, besides I tried more than once, so it might be too
> late to go back. Since this is a new PC, there's nothing in it, I could
> format the hard disk again, but I don't know how.
If that's all you've done, you could safely use
a system restore point and lose WinEDT + TeX Live.
>
> 5) Let us know where you are located; there may be
> a TeX expert nearby about whom you currently do not know.
> I am in Los Angeles California, USA
I'm sure there are many TeX users there; are you
at a University/College, or working from home ?
>
> 6) Consider throwing Vista in your waste bin and get a
> copy of Windows/XP Professional (SP3) instead. Vista
> is going to cause you nothing but grief :-(((
> That might cause the problem. Even during when I was downloading
> TexLive, it constantly asking "require updating Windows and it will
> automatically be turned off in 10 minutes to update", etc. In fact it
> did once in the middle of downloading.
Oh wonderful. Vista is the worst nightmare since Windows ME :-(((
>
>
> 7) Note that none of the above involve you in doing anything
> potentially dangerous /at this stage/; just carry out the
> tests (and the memory exercise) and report back here
> before you do anything that is likely to endanger your system.
>
> Thank you for your detailed diagnosis and nice advices.
My pleasure, Steve. I'll stop here (it's late, and I
don't think too clearly after 23:00) and if no-one has
made any useful suggestions by tomorrow, I'll try to
carry on where we left off.
** Phil.
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