RE: installation problem again

> I have an XP platform, and use WinEdt with MikTeX which I just updated
> from its official webpage. I have then used MikTeX package manager to
> install prosper and pstricks and xcolor and seminar. Prosper package
> landed up in the C:\texmf\tex\prosper directory and so did other 
> packages.    

Wrong. MiKTeX did not do that. MiKTeX installs latex packages in
/tex/latex/

> prosper-tour.tex file has been put in the C:\texmf\doc\latex\prosper
> directory. I have tried to run it from there and it did but MiKTex
> required prosper to be installed again and it did it by itself in the 
> directory C:\texmf\tex\latex\prosper.

That is the proper location. I suggest that you uninstall MiKTeX
fully and start from scratch and follow the MiKTeX install manual
so that everything ends up in the right place. If you continue to
work with this installation, you might be using old versions of
packages all the time without knowing since you `updated' everything,
but that went wrong.

> After that I got a dvi file
> apparently with something outside of the sheet. I have converted dvi to
> pdf file and got 19 empty pages of the document. Please let me know what
> else I can do in order to install package properly, 

Read the prosper docs: the dvi cannot be viewed due to PostScript
`tricks' (rather bugs) that prosper performs to rotate to landscape.
Instead, convert to PS file, view that. DVI2PDF does not work.

-Hendri.

Please don't send me e-mail personally, but use the list.


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