[Tex/LaTex] Problem with installing TeX Live under Windows 8

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I am new to LaTeX and wanted to install the required "programs". But when I came to installing TeX Live, there seemed to be a problem:

Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at (directory)

I have no idea what to do, I simply just downloaded the zipped file from the internet, unzipped it at a random location and tried to run it from cmd.

My PC is recently formatted with Windows 8 and I haven't installed anything with LaTeX before on it. Hope someone can help.

Best Answer

For me this was also a problem with the PATH-variable.

Go to environmental variables, search for PATH and add at the end: ;C:\Windows\system32. The semicolon is important as it separates the entries.

You can test it by typing cmd into the console. If it works (and you had the same problem like me), tlmgr may now update properly.

Restart the console after changing environmental variables.

Thanks a lot. That was my problem, too. I added ";C:\Windows\system32" at the end of the PATH environmental variable - and the installation worked out fine. You amde my day! :-)

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