TL2024 from .iso fail under cygwin (win11 pro)

John Collins jcc8 at psu.edu
Sat Apr 27 16:23:01 CEST 2024


Would the simplest change be just to modify the error message in TLPDB.pm. 
Currently the message is given by

   tldie(  "$0: TLPDB::from_file could not initialize from: $path\n"
         . "$0: Maybe the repository setting should be changed.\n"
         . "$0: More info: https://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html\n");

On cygwin, something like the following could be added:

You are using Cygwin, and this problem could arise if you haven't installed 
Cygwin's wget.  See the section of the TeX Live documentation about 
installation under Cygwin."

John




More information about the tex-live mailing list.