[tex-live] Updating MikTeX

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Alan Litchfield wrote:
> Howdy,
>
>  I realise this list is for tex-live development but for some reason my
> posts to the MikTeX mailing list are being bounced. Hopefully there is
> someone on here that knows enough about MikTeX to point me in the right
> direction.
>
>  I am trying to update MikTeX that was installed with TeXLive and I got the
> following error reported at the end of the log:
>
>  MiKTeX Update Wizard Report
>
>  Version: 2.5.2512
>  Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
>  Time: 09:04:51
>  downloading
>
> http://ctan.unsw.edu.au/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-zzdb2-2.5.tar.bz2...
>  407999 bytes, 22.52 KB/Sec
>  updating package definition directory ("E:\Program Files\MiKTeX
>  2.5\tpm\packages")...
>  installed 220 package definition files
>  opening repository
> http://ctan.unsw.edu.au/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/...
>  repository type: remote package repository
>  loading lightweight database file...
>  downloading
>
> http://ctan.unsw.edu.au/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-zzdb1-2.5.tar.bz2...
>  73422 bytes, 23.33 KB/Sec
>  starting package maintenance...
>  installation directory: "E:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5"
>  package repository:
> http://ctan.unsw.edu.au/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/
>  DBlight digest: b2b1716d997d3552136e025bbf7dd367
>  going to download 229375473 bytes
>  going to install 12825 file(s) (204 package(s))
>
>  Error: Unknown archive file type.
>
>
>  Is there anything I can do to resolve this? If so, what?

I'm not 100% sure, but upgrading to 2.7 might help. MikTeX has
recently introduced some new formats to compress packages. See also
http://www.miktex.org/2.6/Issues.aspx.

Mojca