Re: Miktex Installation failled - configuration utility error

You could perhaps try compiling on the command line.
Let's say your dissertation is in the folder "D:\work". In that case, open
the command prompt, change to that directory using 'cd' and execute this:

D:\work>"C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\pdflatex.exe"
thesisMain.tex

where 'thesisMain.tex' is the main tex file you want to compile.

If that works, let us know. As such, if TexWorks is the editor you _had_
been using before, the error that you saw might be due to a known bug. You
could then try another editor, e.g. TeXnicCenter.




On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:28 AM, gannalise <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi there
> I'm really new to MikTex, I have to write my dissertation using it. I've
> been using the online version overleaf up until now.
> Would much appreciate any help - but would maybe need it in simple terms
> because I don't really know what I'm doing!
> I installed it earlier to day and when I tried to run a file I'd been sent
> it came up with this message in the console output:
>
> Sorry, but "MiKTeX Configuration Utility" did not succeed.
>
> The log file hopefully contains the information to get MiKTeX going again:
>
>   C:/Users/AnnaliseGrieve/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/miktex/log/initexmf.log
>
> You may want to visit the MiKTeX project page (http://miktex.org), if you
> need help.
>
> Sorry, but C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\miktex-pdftex.exe
> did not succeed.
>
> The log file hopefully contains the information to get MiKTeX going again:
>
>
>
> C:/Users/AnnaliseGrieve/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/miktex/log/miktex-pdftex.log
>
> You may want to visit the MiKTeX project page (http://miktex.org), if you
> need help.
>
>
>
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