[tex-live] Cannot contact mirror.ctan.org

Robert Alessi alessi at robertalessi.net
Mon Jan 24 14:28:24 CET 2011


On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:42:05PM +0100, Denis Bitouzé wrote:
> Le lundi 24/01/11 à 12h26,
> Robert Alessi <alessi at robertalessi.net> a écrit :
> 
> > I used http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/
> > 
> > which is already updated.
> 
> # LANG=C /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/i386-linux/tlmgr
> --repository=http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/
> update --all tlmgr: package repository
> http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/
> TLDownload::get_file: response error: 500 Can't connect to
> tug.ctan.org:80 (connect: Connexion refusée) permanent server
> connection set up, but downloading did not succeed!Retrying with wget.
> TLDownload::get_file: response error: 500 Can't connect to
> tug.ctan.org:80 (connect: Connexion refusée) permanent server
> connection set up, but downloading did not succeed!Retrying with wget.
> Cannot load TeX Live database from
> http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/
> at /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/i386-linux/tlmgr line 4554.
> 
> Well... I will wait tomorrow :)

Given that without LANG=C your tlmgr returns to a backbone server, you
should try first doing:

--> tlmgr update --self

If this works and your tlmgr is updated, then you can do:

--> tlmgr update --all

-- 
Robert



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