Re: [Bug Report] Basic MiKTeX 2.9.5105 Windows (32, 64-bit) failed to install

Joo-Won Jung wrote:
> > Looks like a permission error. Are you sure you are installing MiKTeX
> > as
> admin?
> 
> Of course.
> As you can see, other packages, such as latex-fonts, has no problem to be
> installed.
> I think, this is the problem of mixed path notation, slash(/) in Linux and
> backslash(/) in Windows.

While I personally find it looks very unprofessional to mix forward-slash and back-slash in the same path, this is extremely unlikely to be the problem. Forward-slashes are valid in Windows paths in almost every context, and have been since MS-DOS 2.0 (see http://superuser.com/questions/176388/why-does-windows-use-backslashes-for-paths-and-unix-forward-slashes for quite a good round-up).

What does strike me from your log (once I realised that the asterisks in the path were you highlighting parts of it - don't alter log files!) is that the failures are always with program binaries, not data files. Do you have a virus or anti-malware scanner running and, if so, can you try installing MiKTeX with it turned off?


David 

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