Re: downloading the MiKTeX package "symbol"

Ulrike Fischer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Thu, 2 Aug 2012 10:29:15 +0000 schrieb [email protected]:

> Dear MiKTeX users, 
> 
> I have been using MiKTeX 2.9 on my workplace's Windows PC, but
> the site security settings won't allow MiKTeX to download
> software packages over the Internet. 

> Now I have a template that requires the package "symbol", which
> wasn't included in the basic installation of MiKTeX. I didn't
> find a way to download "symbol" as a separate package from the
> CTAN web site. Is there another way to obtain "symbol", or will
> the firewall settings simply have to be changed? 

You need from CTAN the miktex package(s) you want to install (e.g.

 systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/symbol.cab

and the two miktex databases:

 systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-zzdb1-2.9.tar.lzma
 systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-zzdb2-2.9.tar.lzma

Put the everything in an empty folder (outside from miktex) and then
use this folder as "local repository" in the package manager.

-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/


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