[tex-live] TexLive 2008 installation problems

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Thu Jan 22 11:20:41 CET 2009


On Do, 22 Jan 2009, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> reconfigured by root only. Thus it seems to me as the best solution to
> copy lzmadec as well as other executables needed during installation
> to some temporary directory, e.g. texmf-var/tmp, and run them from
> there.

Yes, that is true. But not so easy to implement and test. If someone
wants to dive into the code and help, *great*. Otherwise I put it on my
TODO list ...

Best wishes

Norbert

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