texlive installation problem

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 11:48:19PM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 2022-08-20 at 21:21:44 +0100, Philip Taylor (Hellenic Institute) wrote:
> 
>  > On 20/08/2022 18:54, bf30xo55g141--- via tex-live wrote:
>  > > Hello. While installing texlive using install-tl-windows.exe for 
>  > > Windows, I get an error. Files with win32 extension won't install and 
>  > > I can't figure out why.  At the end of the installation, nothing 
>  > > happens and error messages are displayed. Could you help me please? My 
>  > > OS is windows 10. I also attached a screenshot
>  > 
>  > Interesting — the installer claims not to be able to install 
>  > "a2ping.win32", yet I, who run a Windows system, have no such file and 
>  > yet no error was reported during the installation.
> 
> There is also no file with the extension "win32" in the TL repository.
> 
>    $ find . -iname '*.win32'
> 
> returns nothing.  The option -iname makes the search case-intensitive.
> 
> a2ping is a Perl script which is platform independent per se.  There
> is no special version for Windows.

a2ping.win32 is a package name, not a filename (this package
contains only a wrapper for the actual script). There was probably a
hiccup with the mirror. You can probably install it later without
trouble.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg