Installation of TeX live 2021 on Windows 10 fails with Perl error message in TLWinGoo.pm line 1340

Siep Kroonenberg siepo at bitmuis.nl
Sun Apr 11 17:08:08 CEST 2021


On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 10:21:10AM +0200, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 02:43:35PM +0200, Christoph-Erdmann Pfeiler wrote:
> > Gentle reader,
> > 
> > 
> > just a hint from me:
> > 
> > 
> > Commenting out lines 1340 up to 1344 of Perl module TLWinGoo.pm made the
> > installation routine work.
> 
> Indeed. I had removed these tests since the installer won't even
> start on earlier windows versions, but forgot to remove this
> reference.
> 
> But since this file is part of the core infrastructure, there may be
> some delay before the fix turns up in the repository.

Fix has been included in the latest update - which may not yet have
been propagated yet to all mirrors.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg


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