Re: Installation problem (windows 8.1): "The directory (...) is not a valid installation source"

Thank you very much David. It worked that way :)

On 18 November 2014 15:44, David Allsopp <[email protected]> wrote:

> Pablo Belinchón Baviera wrote:
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > At the beginnig of the installation, when I have to specify the location
> > of the directory that contains the Miktex distribution files the
> following
> > message appears:
> >
> > "The directory
> > C:\Users\Pablo\AppData\Local\Temp\MiKTeX Setup is not a valid
> installation
> > source"
> >
> > I have checked that when running the *.exe file an empy folder called
> > "MiKTeX Setup" is created in the directory specified above.
>
> You have presumably downloaded the Net installer but, by the sounds of it,
> not downloaded the repository. You need to do one of these:
>
> 1. Use the Basic Installer instead. This includes the base packages common
> to most MiKTeX installations and has the option to specify a remote
> repository for installing extra ones.
> 2. Use the "Download MiKTeX" option in the Net installer first. This will
> let you choose a remote repository to download all the packages to on your
> computer. You then run the Net installer again and when you get the screen
> you're presently stuck at, you specify that directory. Incidentally, if you
> download the files to the same directory as you placed the installer in,
> you won't be prompted for the location.
>
>
> David
>
>
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