[tex-live] Can't use tlmgr

Bou Salim salimcollo7 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 22 08:28:10 CET 2016


For several days I have problems when using `tlmgr` to update or install
packages or any other  command, note that I have texlive 2016 on windows
OS. For example :   tlmgr update --self  result



Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at
> C:/texlive/2016/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 2220.
> TeXLive::TLUtils::setup_programs (w32) failed at
> C:/texlive/2016/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 2222.
> C:\texlive\2016\tlpkg\installer\xz\xzdec.exe --help failed (status 65280):
> No such file or directory
> Output is:
> Usage: xzdec [OPTION]... [FILE]...
> Decompress files in the .xz format to standard output.
>   -d, --decompress   (ignored, only decompression is supported)
>   -k, --keep         (ignored, files are never deleted)
>   -c, --stdout       (ignored, output is always written to standard output)
>   -q, --quiet        specify *twice* to suppress errors
>   -Q, --no-warn      (ignored, the exit status 2 is never used)
>   -h, --help         display this help and exit
>   -V, --version      display the version number and exit
> With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
> Report bugs to <lasse.collin at tukaani.org> (in English or Finnish).
> XZ Utils home page: <http://tukaani.org/xz/>
> Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at
> C:/texlive/2016/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 2220.
> TeXLive::TLUtils::setup_programs (w32) failed at
> C:/texlive/2016/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 2222.
> C:\texlive\2016\tlpkg\installer\wget\wget.exe --version failed (status
> 65280): No such file or directory
> Output is:
> GNU Wget 1.17.1 built on mingw32.
> +digest -gpgme +https +ipv6 -iri +large-file -metalink -nls -ntlm
> +opie -psl +ssl/gnutls
> Wgetrc:
>     C:/usr/msys/local/etc/wgetrc (system)
> Compile:
>     gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DSYSTEM_WGETRC="/usr/local/etc/wgetrc"
>     -DLOCALEDIR="/usr/local/share/locale" -I. -I../lib -I../lib
>     -I/usr/local/include -DNDEBUG
> Link:
>     gcc -DNDEBUG /usr/local/lib/libiconv.a /usr/local/lib/libgnutls.a
>     -lws2_32 /usr/local/lib/libnettle.a /usr/local/lib/libhogweed.a
>     /usr/local/lib/libgmp.a -lcrypt32 -lz ftp-opie.o mswindows.o
>     gnutls.o ../lib/libgnu.a
> Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> Originally written by Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic at xemacs.org>.
> Please send bug reports and questions to <bug-wget at gnu.org>.
> tlmgr.pl: Couldn't set up the necessary programs.
> Installation of packages is not supported.
> Please report to texlive at tug.org.
> Use of uninitialized value $r in split at
> C:\texlive\2016\texmf-dist\scripts\texlive\tlmgr.pl line 3939.
> tlmgr.pl: Cannot find main repository, you have to tag one as main!
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