Re: Need advice about working offline

That's the first idea. The second idea is to get to a final stable requirements list (which styles, fonts, etc) while online, and run through the entire build process while online to get everything installed. David's notion of a full download is a good start, but you may be using non-supported styles. Once everything runs, then go offline and repeat to ensure that your install is complete.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Allsopp [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 2:04 AM
To: A place for MiKTeX users to discuss MiKTeX related questions.
Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] Need advice about working offline

On 28 Jun 2013, at 04:06, "Colin McLarty" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am trying to work offline to revise slides for a talk in China.  I 
> have limited web access.  I tried to revise a file which was working 
> six weeks ago, and it produced the following error message:
> 
> ! LaTeX Error: File `url.sty' not found.
> 
> It offered to download url.sty but I had no web access at the time.  
> It is easy to give a minimal example.  This single line produces that 
> error
> message:
> 
> \documentclass{beamer}
> 
> Now I have gotten web access and downloaded url.sty. But I need to 
> know if this kind of thing is likely to happen again when I work 
> offline. Will previously working latex files start to need new 
> downloads?  Is there some way around it when I can't get on line?
> 
> Or should I just work in Word when I need to revise documents offline?

Yes: before you go, use the installer to download a full repository (it's routinely how I use MiKTeX, as it guarantees repeatability from one computer to another)


David

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