Re: installation failed to complete for v2.9 on XP SP3

Ulrike Fischer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:31:47 +0000 (UTC) schrieb Sandra Murphy:

> installation failed for v2.9 on XP SP3
 
> I attempted installation of basic-miktex-2.9.4521.exe as a single user.
 
> I have XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 3.
 
> It did not suggest a folder to install into (probably because I requested
> a single user install), so I created a Program Files\MiKTEX folder.

Hm, "single user" indicates a non-admin user account. In this case I
would use another folder. I did install in my user account miktex as
single user without problems in J:\miktex2.9. 


> mpm.exe: regsvr failed for some reason.

There has been in 2010 one bug report and one discussion in the
mailing list about regsvr failing. Both suggest that the problem is
related to permission rights. 


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


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