Re: Problem with the latest update

Daniel Royer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 03.07.2011 20:42, Marks, Denise wrote:
> I was getting frustrated with that myself. What I ended up doing was deleting the file (miketex-biber-bin.tpn) from the packages directory. The problem has disappeared and I am able to perform updates as usual.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Royer [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 1:14 PM
> To: A place for MiKTeX users to discuss MiKTeX related questions.
> Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] Problem with the latest update
>
> * José Carlos Santos wrote, On 24.06.2011 11:13:
>> On 24-06-2011 09:48, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
>>
>>>>> I had a problem this morning with the latest update for Miktex 2.9:
>>>>>
>>>>> downloading
>>>>> ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-biber-bin.tar.lzma...
>>>>> 15871639 bytes, 353.36 KB/Sec
>>>>> extracting files from miktex-biber-bin.tar.lzma...
>>>>>
>>>>> Error: The TPM file could not be parsed.
>>>> I had the same error too. And I also get this error if I open the
>>>> Package Manager. The file in question (miktex-biber-bin.tpm) looks
>>>> indeed different from the other files of the type miktex-...tpm from
>>>> the same directory, but I do not have enough knowledge about this to
>>>> try to repair it.
>>> Simply wait. There exist already a bug report.
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Jose Carlos Santos
>>
>>
> Using update admin. Worked fine till about a week ago. In spite of new updates announced on the page I still get :
> "could not parse the TPM file:
> c:\program files(x86)\miktex 2.9\tpm\packages\miketx-biber-bin.tpm"
>
> any idea?
>
> Daniel
>
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Didn't work for me. But I might have forgotten I had tried the 64 bit 
version of Miktex. Obviously  you can't update it. So I deleted the 
folder and reinstalled Miktex (Uninstall refused to work for the same 
problem ).

Daniel

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