TL 2024 cannot be installed on some Windows computers

[Denis Bitouzé]

Le 15/05/24 à 06h12, Nelson H. F. Beebe a écrit :

> The inability to uncompress the .tar.xz file says that the xz and unxz
> utilities are not installed
>
> Modern tar implementations automatically recognize various compression
> methods (from magic byte signatures at the start of the compressed
> data), including bzip2, gzip, lzip, and xz (extensions *.bz2, *.gz,
> *.lz, and *.xz).
>
> Once tar has recognized the compression algorithm, it simply invokes
> the decompression companion as an external program, and reads its
> uncompressed output.

Since the student updated this morning the Windows OS on her computer,
I guess the tar implementation (that I ran on Powershell) provided by MS
is not as modern as one could expect :)
-- 
Denis