[tex-live] Updating MikTeX

Lars Madsen daleif at imf.au.dk
Wed Apr 16 00:18:53 CEST 2008


Alan Litchfield :

> 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?
>
> Thanks
> Alan
> --
> Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS
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>
>
>

see the miktex website, uder 2.5 issues.

also your miktex is quite outdated might be a good idea to reinstall using 
version 2.7


/daleif


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