[tex-live] Unattended TL install

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 05:07:17PM +0200, Lars Madsen wrote:
> Siep Kroonenberg wrote, On 2012-08-24 15:04:
> >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.
> >
> 
> did you try one where miktex was already installed?

Fake-installed: Portable miktex with system path pointing to it. I
did get the warning about tex on the system path which could not be
overridden in a user install. Miktex was at the end of the system
path.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg