Re: miktexsetup.exe: MiKTeX encountered an internal error.

Hi,

just FYI: I got my system working by

* Including batch files in .\Skripts for every *.exe in
.\Library\miktex-dir\miktex\bin which just call
`@%~dp0..\Library\miktex-dir\miktex\bin\<name>.exe` (lets hope that
there is no tool which explicitly calls `pdflatex.exe` instead of
`pdflatex`...)
* Changing the `miktexstartup.ini` from `Portable` to a regular one
(`[Auto]\nConfig=Regular`) and setting `[PATHS]` ->
`CommonInstall=..\..` (and the same for `CommonData` and
`CommonConfig`). The final miktexstartup.ini looks like this:

```
[Auto]
Config=Regular

[PATHS]
CommonInstall=..\..
CommonData=..\..
CommonConfig=..\..
```

This file makes miktex look for already installed packages and configs
in the regular "Portable" location but installs new packages in the
user directory.

The result is now a conda package which can be installed by `conda
install -c conda-forge miktex`. If someone wants to have a look: here
is the recipe: https://github.com/conda-forge/miktex-feedstock

This package now lets you install a PDF exporting jupyter notebook
server (or an other app which uses pandoc+latex to convert to pdf) via
`conda install -c conda-forge miktex pandoc notebook nbconvert`.

Kind regards,

Jan
--
web: http://www.katzien.de
Schöne Grüße aus Dresden,

Jan
--
Jan Schulz
mail: [email protected]
web: http://www.katzien.de


On 11 March 2016 at 12:08, Jan Schulz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to repackage miktex as a conda package (which has
> `<root>\scripts` in path). For that I want to try to put it in a
> directory structure similar to
>
> <root>\script (for bin)
> <root>\miktex\<rest of the stuff>
>
> Basically the idea is to put pdflatex and friends into the path and
> put everything else cleanly somewhere else and user downloaded stuff
> into appdata.
>
> While investigating if that is possible (or how "near" I can get to
> this structure), I ran into the following error:
>
> ```
> λ miktexsetup.exe --verbose
> --local-package-repository=.\miktex-repository   --package-set=basic
> download
> [... downloads find ...]
>
> λ miktexsetup.exe --verbose
> --local-package-repository=.\miktex-repository   --use-registry=no
> --common-config=.\miktex\config   --common-data=.\miktex\data
> --common-install=.\miktex\install   --common-roots=.\miktex\root
> --modify-path=no   --user-config="<APPDATA>\MiKTeX"
> --user-data="<LOCALAPPDATA>\MiKTeX"
> --user-install="<APPDATA>\MiKTeX"   --trace   install
> initializing setup service...
> miktexsetup.exe: MiKTeX encountered an internal error.
> ```
>
> I tried to both the 32bit and 64bit variants available from the
> download page. Other versions of the same commandline also didn't
> work, even this breaks:
>
> ```
> λ miktexsetup.exe install
> miktexsetup.exe: MiKTeX encountered an internal error.
> ```
>
> I've no clue what to try next :-( Thanks for any help!
>
> Jan
> --
> Jan Schulz
> mail: [email protected]
> web: http://www.katzien.de

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