[tex-live] Unattended TL install

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:32:14PM +0200, Lars Madsen wrote:
> Lars Madsen wrote, On 2012-08-24 09:49:
> >Karl Berry wrote, On 2012-08-23 23:57:
> >>    so since the installer detected miktex in the system path,
> >>the     installation failed?
> >>No, I didn't mean to imply that.  It wasn't clear from your message if
> >>you saw some other failure.
> >>
> >
> >As far as I know that was the only thing se saw
> >
> >I can ask him to repeat
> >
> >>    even though TL was added to (the end of) the PATH,     menus
> >>was added etc...?
> >>
> >>Sounds like success to me.  If tlpkg/texlive.profile isn't there, well,
> >>I'm baffled.
> >>
> >>k
> >
> >
> 
> I just had him do a TL12 reinstall
> 
> on all of his Win 7 systems (not sure if they are all virtualized),
> install-tl.bat crashed with the notorius 'perl is not working error'
> (or what ever the message is)
> 
> install-tl-advanced.bat
> 
> works fine. But no texlive.profile is created

I just tested with a small TL installation, on a non-virtual Dutch
w7 professional with miktex already on the system path. I did get a
<root>/tlpkg/texlive.profile

So this failure is not universal.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg