[tex-live] minor issues with installer

Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com
Thu Jul 31 19:33:34 CEST 2008


On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> On Do, 31 Jul 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> Could it be that I cannot create the main windows???
>
> Ok, now the installer issues on universal-darwin:
>
>        perl/Tk unusable, cannot create main windows.
>        That could be a consequence of not having X Windows installed!

Can you maybe also check if "startx" is in path? And if yes, issue a
warning like
    "you need to start X11 with 'startx' first"
else
    "you need to install X11 first"
(though I doubt that one is able to install Perl/Tk without having X
installed in the first place)


>        Error message from creating MainWindow:
>                ....
>        Continuing in text mode...
>
> on all other archs the second line is not issued!

Thanks a lot,
    Mojca


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