Installation fails

[Alois Treindl]

Thank you.

Installation worked on second try. Time used for installing the 
packages: 1:02:32

On 11.08.21 17:02, George N. White III wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 at 09:24, <alois at astro.ch <mailto:alois at astro.ch>> 
> wrote:
>
>     I downloaded install-tl-unx.tar.gz, unpacked it and ran the
>     install script in
>     install-tl-20210810
>     After running busily more than an hour, an RHEL 7, it failed with
>     this output:
>
>     Retrying to install: projlib [689k]
>     TeXLive::TLUtils::check_file_and_remove: checksums differ for
>     /tmp/3kSrMiXNwl/Fcm9Z2yOQa/projlib.tar.xz:
>     TeXLive::TLUtils::check_file_and_remove:
>      tlchecksum=ddccd3863f67ffa2dc195c3af705b4b520078d5ab64027bc1e66ac88a35e6622b6f4b71d03978ebe6fe1659221aadfcdbf4dab18361e55704fadc871256cfe2f,
>     arg=15122837f9934ccc25faf35862217be9194f544c49a9a46c194154d8412ca6b90496efe25b563b7d597fa42785c55fe1836128935e8af38a5539b3f896d5ceaa
>     TeXLive::TLUtils::check_file_and_remove: backtrace:
>     -> tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm:2399:
>     TeXLive::TLUtils::check_file_and_remove
>     -> tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPDB.pm:1978: TeXLive::TLUtils::unpack
>     -> tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPDB.pm:1813: TeXLive::TLPDB::_install_data
>     -> tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPDB.pm:1729:
>     TeXLive::TLPDB::not_virtual_install_package
>     -> tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm:1633: TeXLive::TLPDB::install_package
>     -> ./install-tl:2135: TeXLive::TLUtils::install_packages
>     -> ./install-tl:946: main::do_install_packages
>     -> ./install-tl:700: main::do_installation
>     TeXLive::TLUtils::check_file_and_remove:   removing
>     /tmp/3kSrMiXNwl/Fcm9Z2yOQa/projlib.tar.xz, but saving copy in
>     /tmp/7Y5wW8dS6z
>     TLPDB::_install_data: downloading did not succeed
>     (check_file_and_remove failed) for
>     https://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/tex/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/projlib.tar.xz
>     <https://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/tex/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/projlib.tar.xz>
>     Installation failed.
>     Rerunning the installer will try to restart the installation.
>     Or you can restart by running the installer with:
>     install-tl --profile installation.profile [YOUR-EXTRA-ARGS]
>     ./install-tl: Writing log in current directory:
>     /home/contrib/install-tl-20210810/install-tl.log
>
>     What am I supposed to do?
>
> This sort of issue is not uncommon.  "Rerunning the installer will try 
> to restart the installation." may work for
> you if the error was transient (mirror site in the process of 
> updating, internet "glitch").  Some "enterprise"
> sites block "suspicious" files and replace the contents with a some 
> text or html message, in which case you
> may get the same error for every mirror and you will need to contact 
> your sites's IT support.
>
> If rerunning the installer fails due to unreliable internet, you can 
> create and maintain a local mirror, 
> <https://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-mirror.html>
> e.g., using rsync (mine is 4GB with linux and windows binaries).
>
> -- 
> George N. White III
>
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