[tex-live] Problem updating using tlmgr

[George N. White III]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Torsten Andre <qa at takb.net> wrote:
>
>> Here we go! That was fun, everything worked. In the manual I didn't not
>> understand that I actually have to specify the path to tlnet, but
>> reading it again I guess it makes sense. Thank you for pointing that out!
>>
>> Torsten
>>
>>
>
>
> May be to avoid such problems two links from
>
> http://tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html
>
>  "generic mirror.ctan.org url" and "list of CTAN mirrors"  should
> point respectively to
>
> http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet
>
> and to the page similar to
>
> http://www.tug.org/texlive/mirmon/
>
> albeit with "release" rather than "prerelease" URLs

Maybe the installer could try or suggest adding "/systems/texlive/tlnet"
if the first attempt fails.


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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
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