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

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Sat Jan 8 14:07:30 CET 2011


On Fr, 07 Jan 2011, Denis Bitouzé wrote:
> www.tex.ac.uk:80 (connect: Connexion refusée) permanent server
> connection set up, but downloading did not succeed!Retrying with wget.

Do you have a proxy server somewhere on the way?

> /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/i386-linux/tlmgr: couldn't install new
> package acmtrans

Furthermore, this is *reallly* strange since acmtrans has been removed
some time ago, as well as ..

> [...]
> [115/115, 00:00/00:00] auto-install: zefonts [283k]
> Downloading 
>    http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/zefonts.tar.xz

zefonts.

Why please on earth does your tlmgr try to get that files?

Can you please give a bit of history?

Best wishes

Norbert
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