[tex-live] TL2009 - reporting

Lars Madsen daleif at imf.au.dk
Sun Oct 25 22:25:18 CET 2009


Andreas Hirsch wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> today I successfully installed TL2009 on my Ubuntu-System installing
> binaries for linux and win32.
> 
> First try:
> Distribution: net  (downloading)
> Using URL: ftp://ftp.ctex.org/mirrors/texlive/tlnet
> 
> Installing [0380/2063, time/total: 05:24:04/07:31:33]: concmath [42k]
> Downloading
> ftp://ftp.ctex.org/mirrors/texlive/tlnet/archive/concmath.doc.tar.xz did
> not succeed.
> Installation failed.
> 
> Second try:
> Rerunning the installer will try to restart the installation.
> Or you can restart by running the installer with:
>   install-tl --profile installation.profile [EXTRA-ARGS]
> 
> Automated TeX Live installation using profile: installation.profile
> Installing TeX Live 2009 from: http://texlive.guiling.fr
> Platform: i386-linux => 'Intel x86 with GNU/Linux'
> Distribution: net  (downloading)
> Using URL: http://texlive.guiling.fr
> 
> went on smooth without any problem
> 
> Testing after installation:
> 
> On my Vista-PC using WinEdt everything went fine without any tuning
> 
> On my Ubuntu-System everythings ok for root
> 
> For a normal user latex is not found :-(
> 
> I checked/edited:
> 
> .bash_profile in users home
> /etc/enviroment
> 
> for the correct PATH but it doesnt work
> 
> I have to admit that I'm not experienced in this.
> 
> Andreas
> 
> 

how exactly did you test it?

did you start a new xterm and did an

echo $PATH in it?

AFAIR chaning /etc/environment requires the user to log in again before 
that changes are activated.

/daleif



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