Re: downloading the MiKTeX package "symbol"

Dear Ulrike,

Thank you, but I tried this yesterday and today and still had trouble. Probably I'm making a very simple mistake, so I'll write down my procedure step by step:
1.) Put all three files into a new directory C:\Program Files\MiKTeX_LocalRepository. This is separate from C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9, where my other MiKTeX files are stored. I unpacked symbol.cab, but not the other two files as I've explained.
2.) Open a LaTeX template file using MikTeX 2.9.
3.) Attempt to run either pdfLaTeX or XeLaTeX (results are the same). A pop-up window then comes up stating
"The required file fonts\tfm\adobe\symbol\psyr.tfm is missing. It is a part of the following package: symbol. The package will be installed from:" and then I click the "Change" button.
4.) Of the three options for "Installation Source", I choose "Packages shall be installed from a directory."
5.) Under "Local Package Repository", I choose C:/Program Files/MiKTeX_LocalRepository. (The expression in the box actually does contain forward slashes rather than backslashes.)
6.) I then click "Finish" underneath, but another pop-up window comes up stating, "Not a local package repository."

Am I missing something?

Many thanks again for your assistance,

John Sutter

-----Original Message-----
From: Ulrike Fischer [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 03 August 2012 10:11
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] downloading the MiKTeX package "symbol"

Am Fri, 3 Aug 2012 09:05:51 +0000 schrieb [email protected]:

> Dear Ulrike and other MiKTeX users,
 
> Thank you for your prompt reply. I downloaded the files you indicated, 
> and had no problem unpacking "symbol.cab". But my WinZip 12.0 program 
> can't unpack the LZMA files, even though it's supposed to be able to 
> handle them. For some reason, the actual files have extensions 
> "tar.tar" instead of "tar.lzma". When I tried to open them with 
> WinZip, a dialog window popped up with the error message

You don't need to unpack anything. Put the files as is in a folder, start the package manager, choose in the repository menu "change repository" and point to your folder and then let the package manager handle them. It can handle them when it graps them online from CTAN, so why should it have problems with them offline?


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


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