[tex-live] TL004 installation from DVD image

Daniel Flipo Daniel.Flipo at univ-lille1.fr
Sun Jul 4 20:13:34 CEST 2004


Hi all,

I have investigated a bit more about what I called some days ago
"Severe bug in TL2004 DVD installation".

Fact: on my linux (debian testing) system, installation from
  the test-texlive2004-inst-20040625.iso image (kind of) works, while
  the test-texlive2004-live-20040625.iso image doesn't install
  any binary at all!

As Sebastian pointed out, the 'live' image prints

    <B> binary systems:        1 out of  0             <= *** BUG ***

I have looked into both versions install-tl.sh script,
the variable $systems is evaluated differently:

inst>   systems=`(cd $LISTS; ls bin-tex.* | sed  -e 's/bin-tex.//')`

live>   systems=`(cd $BIN; ls -l | grep "^d" | awk '{print $9}')`

The 9th field is empty... this would work for me:
live>   systems=`(cd $BIN; ls -l | grep "^d" | awk '{print $8}')`
as ls -l | grep "^d" produces:
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        30720 2004-06-22 08:10
alpha-linux/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        30720 2004-05-11 11:40
i386-freebsd4.8/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        30720 2004-06-22 18:30
i386-linux/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        30720 2004-05-11 11:40
i386-openbsd3.3/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        30720 2004-05-11 11:40
i386-solaris2.8/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        30720 2004-06-22 19:20
mips-irix6.5/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        30720 2004-05-11 11:40
powerpc-aix4.3.3.0/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        30720 2004-05-11 11:40
powerpc-darwin6.6/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        30720 2004-05-11 11:40
sparc64-linux/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        30720 2004-05-11 11:40
sparc-solaris2.7/
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root        55296 2004-06-20 17:10 win32/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         8192 2004-06-07 15:10
win32-static/

May I also suggest to use '\ls' instead of 'ls' as the command 'ls'
is often aliased, I have:
alias ls='ls -F --color=auto'
this appends a '/' at the end of the directories, should be harmless
but...

Daniel Flipo



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