Re: Miktex 2.9, Win 7: installing packages fails

Hi,

Like David Griffel I had not been able to update MikTex 2.9 for over a year. Your advice to right-click the install program and setting "Run as administrator" worked fine. Unfortunately attempting to compile any of my projects produced an 'etex.sty not found' error. Browsing through the user forum told me it has been a problem with others too. Things turned pear-shaped and I decided on a complete MikTex 2.9 download and re-install. Updated all packages, synchronised the repository, even found the etex.sty file in ...\miktex\bin\x64 although not sure how to tell Texmaker. After a day of getting lost in the woods  'etex.sty not found' is still there. It is good to see there is some stability in these turbulent times! Wonder if you could offer some advice.

Cheers, Reinhard

-----Original Message-----
From: David Griffel [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Sunday, 20 October 2013 2:54 AM
To: A place for MiKTeX users to discuss MiKTeX related questions.
Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] Miktex 2.9, Win 7: installing packages fails

Jerry, thanks for your suggestions.  I changed permissions for the Miktex installation directory, giving myself full control over it and subfolders, and now package manager works OK, and so does on-the-fly installation.

Thanks again,
David



On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Jerry <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:45:49 +0100
> David Griffel articulated:
>
> > Well, I've uninstalled and reinstalled in different directories, 
> > doesn't help.  Now I've given up, installed the complete Miktex.  I 
> > can't update, or uninstall unwanted packages, but too bad.
> >
> > Everything works fine on my other Win7 machine.  Maybe there's 
> > something wrong with the installation of Win 7 on this machine; 
> > that's suggested by the error message saying I'm not an 
> > administrator when in fact I am.  One day I'll take the time to reinstall Win 7.
>
> Did you actually right click on the install program and click "Run as 
> Administrator"? Sometimes that tricks the system into running in full 
> admin mode. Also, check to see if the admin permissions have been 
> messed with.
>
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