Re: Unable to connect to repository --- what can one do?

On 15-Dec-2014 11:13, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Sun, 14 Dec 2014 11:14:43 +0100 schrieb Virgil Stokes:
>
>> When trying to install/update any of the class/style packages I get the
>> following error:
>>
>> MiKTeX Problem Report
>> Message: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
> [...]
>
>> I had no problem with downloading package about 12 hours ago;
> Then the problem is hopefully not on your side. So wait a bit.
> Sometimes the miktex server is simply down.
>
> If you are in a hurry to install packages you can get them from CTAN
> and move them to a local repository.
This is finally what I did Ulrike --- download a style file directly from CTAN 
and registered it in MiKTeX.
I had never run into this problem before and was bothered that I could find no 
way to change to a different server. Perhaps, I was too impatient :-[

Thanks,
--V

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