TeX Live and MacTeXI can't install Tex Live - Inappropriate ioctl for device

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fpires
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I can't install Tex Live - Inappropriate ioctl for device

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Hello, everybody.

Well, I use Linux, and downloaded install-tl-unx.tar.gz, extracted it, and tried to install Tex Live by typing the command

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sudo ./install-tl
. Then, it comes first the message

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cannot contact mirror.ctan.org, returning a backbone server!
, after that comes the message

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Loading http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
, and after some minutes, the last message:

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./install-tl: open tlpdb(http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPDB.pm line 359.
.

I tried using other mirrors, but the problem is always the same. Does it have to do with the fact that I need a proxy server to access Internet? But I have already configured the environment variables, and access to any site in Internet is pretty good. Could you help me with this question? Thank you very much!

Felipe

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fpires
Posts: 15
Joined: Wed Dec 23, 2015 7:10 pm

I can't install Tex Live - Inappropriate ioctl for device

Post by fpires »

Hello, everybody!

Well, I don't know what happened, but it simply worked. I had no access to Internet in the last past days, but today it came back to live. Then I simply typed

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sudo ./install-tl
and Tex Live was installed! Thank you!
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