[texhax] Replacing MiKTeX with TeX Live 2011

[Peter Davis]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Reinhard Kotucha
<reinhard.kotucha at web.de>wrote:

> On 2011-08-10 at 13:33:46 -0400, Peter Davis wrote:
>
>  > On my Windows 7 Pro machine, I just un-installed MiKTeX 2.9, and
>  > installed TeX Live.  However, the installation left me this
>  > message:
>  >    TLDownload::get_file: response error:
>  >      400 FTP return code 000
>  >    permanent server connection set up, but downloading did not succeed!
>  > Retrying with wget.
>  >    Warning: conflicting [pdf]tex program found on the system path in
>  > C:\context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin; not fixable in user mode.
>  >
>  > Worse, when I try to compile a known working .tex file with
>  > XeLaTeX, I get this:
>
>  > This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (Web2C 2010)
>  >
>  >  restricted \write18 enabled.
>  >
>  > ---! c:/texlive/2011/texmf-var/web2c/xetex/xelatex.fmt doesn't match
>  > xetex.pool
>  >
>  > (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>  >
>  >
>  > I'm stymied too.  Any clues?
>
> Check your PATH.
>


Thanks, Reinhard (et al).  I did discover I had installed ConTeXt minimals
long ago, and it was on my PATH.  I simply removed it from the path, and
things seem to be working now.

Thanks!

-pd


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