Re: File name database capacity exceeded

Ulrike Fischer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Sun, 26 Jun 2011 09:06:57 +0200 schrieb Andreas:

> Hello,
> 
> I want to install MiKTeX on my notebook after using MiKTeX 2.8 on my 
> desktop for some years. I used the instruction
> http://docs.miktex.org/2.9/manual/netinstall.html#id577961
> 
> Downloading with wget http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm 
> was not a problem. But the second task (Install MiKTeX) is making me 
> headache. I answered all questions as told me by the documentation, the 
> installer verified all the files, and installed 75,673 files on my hard 
> disk. No it complains:
>    MiKTeX Setup Wizard
>    The operation could not be completed for the following reason:
>    File name database capacity exceeded.
> 
> The last lines in the log window are:
> 
> extracting files from zefonts.tar.lzma
> extracting files from zhmetrics.tar.lzma
> 
> Error: File name database capacity exceeded.
> 
> There is still enough space on the hard disk. What should I do to 
> install MiKTeX successfully?

The file name database (FNDB) has nothing to do with hard disk
space: The FNDB is an index of the installed files and is used by
the miktex applications for faster searching. 

I would call it a bug if its capacity is really exceeded by
installing a complete miktex. (I never installed a complete miktex
so I don't know if there is really a problem and you are the first
complaining about it).

To get around the problem you can install a basic miktex and then
add more packages with on-the-fly installation or the package
manager (You can use the folder where you downloaded all the
packages as local repository, so you don't have to download all
again).
 
-- 
Ulrike Fischer 


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