Re: Getting DVI instead of PDF

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:52:44 +0100, Ulrike Fischer <[email protected]>  
wrote:

> Am Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:06:08 +0000 schrieb José Carlos Santos:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> After upgrading MiKTeX this morning, nothing works anymore. :(
>>
>> If I try to compile with PDFLaTeX a file whose contents are:
>>
>> \documentclass{article}
>> \begin{document}
>> Hello World!
>> \end{document}
>>
>> then I get the information that the article class is missing (it isn't,
>> of course!) and then MiKTeX asks for my permission to install it. And
>> then it creates a DVI file, not a PDF file.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Well I will avoid updates in the next days ;-).

Too late for me :-(.

> I suggest
> 1. Update FNDB as user an admin
> 2. Synchronize the repository / switch it
> 3. Recreate the formats

I did it, it took too much time to recreate every format and finally  
failed.

In my case, MikTeX insists in downloading ltxbase everytime I compile José  
Carlos example.
With xelatex and lualatex, I finally get a correct pdf, but fails with  
latex and pdflatex.

Ignasi


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