[EXT] Re: TL 2024 cannot be installed on some Windows computers

[Manfred Lotz]

I saw Nelson's post a bit late. Sorry.

On 5/13/24 21:25, Manfred Lotz wrote:
> Hi Phil
> 
> On 5/13/24 20:45, Philip Taylor (RHBNC) via tex-live wrote:
>> Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> 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?
>> Windows (at least at version 7) does not have an "md5sum" program, Nelson, nor
>> can I find any .exe with "md5" in its name.  Are you aware of any
>> platform-agnostic way of computing an md5 sum ?
> 
> If you open a PowerShell and change to the directory where
> tlperl.windows.r69939.tar resides you may run
> 
> certutil -hashfile tlperl.windows.r69939.tar MD5
>