[tex-live] Win 7: installationproblems, Perl stopped working

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Fri Nov 11 11:05:54 CET 2011


On Fr, 11 Nov 2011, Lars Madsen wrote:
>> Could it be that there is a proxy and you cannot connect without it,
>> and the timeout is long, so wget hangs and hangs?
>>
>> Or some firewall prohibiting downloads?
>>
>
> No and no. The danish mirror (dotsrc.org) is usually very fast to respond.

So other computers can install without problems in the same network?

The firewall question was related to the very computer we are speaking
about. THe damned Windows Firewall or Norton Bummy Firewall or
<ChooseYourProvider> Super Firewall is blocking wget becasue it 
is a console program??

Just guessing.

>> 		...\perl.exe install-tl -d -d <other args>
>
> We can try, but I need the student to come back with her laptop

Yeah, that would be useful.

Thanks.

Norbert
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