TL 2024 cannot be installed on some Windows computers

[Manfred Lotz]

Hi Nelson

On 5/13/24 20:33, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> Correspondent denis.bitouze at univ-littoral.fr reports a Windows installation problem:
> 
>>> TLPDB::_install_data: untar failed for D:/archive/tlperl.windows.r69939.tar.xz
>>> TLUtils::install_packages: Failed to install tlperl.windows
> 
> Perhaps the file tlperl.windows.r69939.tar.xz did not download completely.
> 
> At the CTAN mirror in Utah, I find
> 
> 	% ls -l tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/tlperl.windows.r69939.tar.xz
> 	-rw-rw-r-- 1 mirror mirror 10600216 Feb 17 17:51 tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/tlperl.windows.r69939.tar.xz
> 
> 	% md5sum tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/tlperl.windows.r69939.tar.xz
> 	6a8162c63090d6e2dc302dcc5ee130be tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/tlperl.windows.r69939.tar.xz
> 
> When I uncompress the tar.xz file, I get
> 
> 	% ls -l tlperl.windows.r69939.tar
> 	-rw-rw-r-- 1 beebe wheel 86835200 May 13 12:30 tlperl.windows.r69939.tar
> 
> 	% md5sum tlperl.windows.r69939.tar
> 	63469e02848de588a027a9d6b8e3493b  tlperl.windows.r69939.tar
> 
> Can you verify the filesizes and MD5 checksums at your end?
> 

I checked on comeday.dante.de and can confirm all values to be the same as on
the CTAN server.


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Best,
Manfred