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authorSiep Kroonenberg <siepo@cybercomm.nl>2014-05-05 19:39:41 +0000
committerSiep Kroonenberg <siepo@cybercomm.nl>2014-05-05 19:39:41 +0000
commit15242121b8ddf7d4a041fb3998d295dd8232e1eb (patch)
tree76a433164594f0791de924eb62948b76b21c1eb8 /Master
parent7ee0dcbeaf893ec259c3cd7cd854a159c029638a (diff)
Manual updates, mostly about the Windos exe installer
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@33855 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex
index 90ea3f187f3..7cd03a0b968 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex
@@ -447,14 +447,15 @@ to pdf\TeX\ (mentioned above).
\subsection{Starting the installer}
\label{sec:inst-start}
-To begin, get the \TK{} \DVD{} or download the \TL{} net installer, and
-locate the installer script: \filename{install-tl} for Unix,
-\filename{install-tl-windows.bat} for Windows. See
+To begin, get the \TK{} \DVD{} or download the \TL{} net installer.%, and
+%locate the installer script: \filename{install-tl} for Unix,
+%\filename{install-tl-windows.bat} for Windows.
+See
\url{http://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html} for more information and other
methods of getting the software.
\begin{description}
-\item [Net installer:] Download from \CTAN, under
+\item [Net installer, zip or tar.gz:] Download from \CTAN, under
\dirname{systems/texlive/tlnet}; the url
\url{http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet} will automatically
redirect to a nearby, up-to-date, mirror. You can retrieve either
@@ -464,6 +465,13 @@ only. After unpacking, \filename{install-tl} and
\filename{install-tl-windows.bat} will be in the \dirname{install-tl}
subdirectory.
+\item[Net installer, Windows exe:] Download from \CTAN{} as above,
+and double-click. This starts up a first-stage installer and
+unpacker; see Figure~\ref{fig:nsis}. It gives three choices:
+``Simple install'' starts up the wizard installer, ``Custom
+install'' the expert GUI installer, as described in
+section~\ref{sec:wininst}. A third option is just unpacking.
+
\item [\TeX{} Collection \DVD:] go to the \DVD's \dirname{texlive}
subdirectory. Under Windows, the installer normally starts automatically
when you insert the \DVD. You can get the \DVD\ by becoming a member of
@@ -476,6 +484,11 @@ Internet, please see \ref{sec:dvd-install-net-updates}.
\end{description}
+\begin{figure}[tb]
+\tlpng{nsis_installer}{.6\linewidth}
+\caption{First stage of Windows .exe installer}\label{fig:nsis}
+\end{figure}
+
The same installer program is run, whatever the source. The most
visible difference between the two is that with the net installer, what
you end up with is the packages that are currently available. This is
@@ -542,9 +555,9 @@ are precisely the same. It adds a few extra folders with Mac-specific
documentation and applications.
-\subsubsection{Windows}
+\subsubsection{Windows}\label{sec:wininst}
-If you are using the net installer, or the \DVD\ installer failed to
+If you are using the unpacked downloaded zip file, or the \DVD\ installer failed to
start automatically, double-click \filename{install-tl-windows.bat}.
For more customization options, e.g., selection of specific package
collections, run \filename{install-tl-advanced.bat} instead.
@@ -553,12 +566,12 @@ You can also start the installer from the command-prompt. Below,
\texttt{>} denotes the prompt; user input is \Ucom{\texttt{bold}}. If
you are in the installer directory, run just:
\begin{alltt}
-> \Ucom{install-tl}
+> \Ucom{install-tl-windows}
\end{alltt}
Or you can invoke it with an absolute location, such as:
\begin{alltt}
-> \Ucom{D:\bs{}texlive\bs{}install-tl}
+> \Ucom{D:\bs{}texlive\bs{}install-tl-windows}
\end{alltt}
for the \TK\ \DVD, supposing that \dirname{D:} is the optical
drive. Figure~\ref{fig:wizard-w32} displays the wizard installer, which
@@ -566,12 +579,12 @@ is the default for Windows.
To install in text mode, use:
\begin{alltt}
-> \Ucom{install-tl -no-gui}
+> \Ucom{install-tl-windows -no-gui}
\end{alltt}
For a complete listing of the various options:
\begin{alltt}
-> \Ucom{install-tl -help}
+> \Ucom{install-tl-windows -help}
\end{alltt}
\begin{figure}[tb]
@@ -670,7 +683,7 @@ could devise, called the ``wizard'' installer
no questions. If you want to customize your setup, you should run one
of the other installers.
-This mode can be invoked explicitly with
+On other platforms, this mode can be invoked explicitly with
\begin{alltt}
> \Ucom{install-tl -gui=wizard}
\end{alltt}
@@ -1696,12 +1709,11 @@ variables permanently also requires registry access.
In later versions of Windows, a distinction is made between regular
users and administrators, where only the latter have free access to the
-entire operating system. In practice, though, you could better describe
-these classes of users as unprivileged users and normal users: being an
-administrator is the rule, not the exception. Nevertheless, we have made
+entire operating system. We have made
an effort to make \TL{} installable without administrative privileges.
-If the user is an administrator, there is an option to install for all
+If the installer is started with administrative permissions,
+there is an option to install for all
users. If this option is chosen, shortcuts are created for all users,
and the system environment is modified. Otherwise, shortcuts and menu
entries are created for the current user, and the user environment is
@@ -1721,7 +1733,7 @@ be always usable from within such a command-prompt. The shortcut for
\TeX{}works, if installed, also prepends \TL{} to the search path, so it
should also be immune to this path problem.
-For Windows Vista and later there is another twist: even if you are
+For Windows Vista and later you should be aware that even if you are
logged in as administrator, you need to explicitly ask for administrator
privileges. In fact, there is not much point in logging in as
administrator. Instead, right-clicking on the program or shortcut that