TL 2024 cannot be installed on some Windows computers

[Zdenek Wagner]

út 16. 7. 2024 v 15:21 odesílatel Ryszard Kubiak <rhkubiak at gmail.com>
napsal:

> Dear All,
>
> Although the thread seems to be closed, I would like to share a
> potential solution to a 'Permission Denied' error that I encountered
> while installing TeXLive 2023 from an ISO image on Windows 11.
>
> I experienced a similar issue, where running the TeXLive installation as
> an administrator still resulted in a 'Permission Denied' error. After
> several hours of troubleshooting and researching online, I discovered a
> suggestion by Siep Kronenberg from 2015. She noted that overly
> restrictive antivirus software could cause this error.
>
> In my case, the culprit was RAV antivirus, which had somehow been
> installed on my machine (ironically behaving much like a virus) and was
> protecting the TEMP directory. Attempting to resolve the issue by
> creating a new directory and changing the TEMP and TMP system
> environment variables did not help, as RAV protected the new TEMP
> directory just as it did the original one.
>
> Unable to find a way to exclude the TEMP directory from RAV's
> protection, I decided to uninstall RAV completely. Following its
> removal, the TeXLive installation proceeded without any issues.
>
> The problem with antivirus was mentioned several times in the past. It is
not wise to use Windows without an antivirus thus it should be sufficient
not to aninstall but just deactivate the antivirus and activate it again
when the installation of TeX Live is completed.


> I hope this information is helpful to others facing a similar problem.
>
> Best regards,
> Ryszard
>


Zdeněk Wagner
https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/
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