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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 08:57:55 -0400
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Subject: Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours
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On 10/21/2014 12:06 AM, Don MacDougall wrote:
>>   I don't know what happened, but you must have inadvertently selected
>>   some packages to install that you didn't intend to choose.  There are no
>>   texlive packages in a default installation.
>
> If I somehow did something like this, is there an easy way to undo it other
> than to delete everything and start over?  Since I've already downloaded
> everything I've no objection to having it install, especially since the
> install says it's 99% complete, but this one package seems to hold
> everything up and when I try to install everything else while uninstalling
> this one package, the installer still stalls at the same postinstall script.
> Might I presume that it can't uninstall till it first completes the install?
> If that's the case, then I suppose I'll just leave it set to install and let
> it run for 3 or 4 days in the hope it'll eventually complete.  Most of the
> other postinstall scripts and the whole rest of the install process ran in
> no more than a few hours.

I wouldn't try to restart the install without figuring out why 
/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-basic.sh didn't complete.  Is there anything 
at all in /var/log/ that might provide a clue?  Usually setup writes temporary 
files while it's executing postinstall scripts.

Ken

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