[tex-live] Updating MikTeX

Robin Fairbairns Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Wed Apr 16 00:51:24 CEST 2008


Alan Litchfield <alan at alphabyte.co.nz> wrote:

> 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.

your problem is that miktex 2.5 update isn't supported any longer --
there's a new format for package files (.tar.lzma) which 2.5 can't deal
with.

r


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