distro funzionante su Windows 8

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C:\Users\ildav_000\Desktop\install-tl\install-tl-20130407>install-tl –gui=wizar
d
PATH=C:\Users\ildav_000\Desktop\install-tl\install-tl-20130407\tlpkg\tlperl\bin;
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_17\bin;C:\Program Files\
MinGW\bin
Can't spawn “cmd.exe”: No such file or directory at C:/Users/ildav_000/Desktop/i
nstall-tl/install-tl-20130407/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 2299.
TeXLive::TLUtils::setup_programs (w32) failed at C:/Users/ildav_000/Desktop/inst
all-tl/install-tl-20130407/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 2301.
C:\Users\ildav_000\Desktop\install-tl\install-tl-20130407\tlpkg\installer\xz\xzd
ec.exe –help failed (status 65280): No such file or directory
Output is:
Usage: xzdec [OPTION]… [FILE]…
Uncompress files in the .xz format to the standard output.

-c, –stdout (ignored)
-d, –decompress (ignored)
-k, –keep (ignored)
-q, –quiet specify *twice* to suppress errors
-Q, –no-warn (ignored)
-h, –help display this help and exit
-V, –version display the version number and exit

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Report bugs to (in English or Finnish).
XZ Utils home page: <http://tukaani.org/xz/>

Can't spawn “cmd.exe”: No such file or directory at C:/Users/ildav_000/Desktop/i
nstall-tl/install-tl-20130407/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 2299.
TeXLive::TLUtils::setup_programs (w32) failed at C:/Users/ildav_000/Desktop/inst
all-tl/install-tl-20130407/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 2301.
C:\Users\ildav_000\Desktop\install-tl\install-tl-20130407\tlpkg\installer\wget\w
get.exe –version failed (status 65280): No such file or directory
Output is:
GNU Wget 1.11.4

Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Originally written by Hrvoje Niksic .
Currently maintained by Micah Cowan .

C:\Users\ildav_000\Desktop\install-tl\install-tl-20130407\install-tl: Goodbye.
Premere un tasto per continuare . . .
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I had the same problem, seems that the problem is related to the environmental variables in Windows 8. I changed the variable “PATHEXT” (it holds the sequence that Windows looks for executables in) from “.COM;.EXE;.BAT;….” to “.EXE;.BAT;.COM”…., this fixed the problem for me. Environmental variables are found under
`Controlpanel>System and security>System>Change settings>Advanced>Environmental variables`

Non ho provato perché ora (dopo qualche intoppo) ho completato l’installazione di MiKTeX (e sembra funzionare) ma effettivamente ho PATHEXT: .COM;.EXE;.BAT;
Riporto qui la soluzione nel caso possa servire.
Mi consigliate di rimanere su MiKTeX o installare TeXLive?

Hai scaricato il file install-tl.zip da questa pagina? Hai provato a riscaricarlo?

L’ho scaricato e riscaricato da http://ctan.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/