Re: Error when customizing basic command-line install.

Ulrike Fischer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:22:54 +0200 (MEST) schrieb Hans Marius
Eikseth:

> Dear list,
> as you may remember, with the help of Ulrike I was able to locate a previous problem.
 
> As a remedy, I now want to make MiKTeX to store UserData somewhere else than the default dir (in my case the default was UserData: C:\Users\hans\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9 ).
 
> I have never tried the command-line setupwiz before, and naturally
> it came up with at least one error:
 
> The operation failed for some reason.
> Details: C:\miktex29\miktex/bin\initexmf.exe

Well if would have been useful if you would have give a bit more
context. But "initexmf.exe" sounds like an error at the end of the
installation (e.g. when fc-cache is called) and is often harmless as
you can call fc-cache manually later again.

Check if you can use pdflatex, YAP etc. If yes run initexmf -u,
updmap and fc-cache to complete the installation. 

> My invocation/option input was basic-miktex-2.9.4146.exe --private
> --user-data=\\ans-fil-rv-1\home-rv$\hans\System\Programdata\MiKTeX\2.9\userdata
> --user-install=C:\miktex29
 
> Now, I used the UserConfig file path to put userdata into folder
> 'userdata' - is this causing the trouble?

I don't know if it the cause of your error but it is certainly not a
good idea to put one root in a subfolder of another root. It's
confusing. What you can do is point the two roots to same folder.
(In a normal multiuser installation CommonConfig is the same root
than CommonData).

You should also be aware that UserData can get quite large (one of
mine is 73MB large, another has grow to 221 MB) so it is perhaps not
a good idea to put it in the roaming profile.


 

-- 
Ulrike Fischer 


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