Stephen Harris wrote:
I'm wondering if John might have done a net install in which he didn't
download the files first with setup.exe
and then run setup.exe again to build the installation.
That is how I ran the Miktex install, how did you do it?
I did it three different ways on three different machines. On one, I
downloaded the "minimal" installer, ran setup, then downloaded selected
packages using the package manager. On a second, I downloaded the
larger installer and ran that. On a third, I installed from a CD-R on
which I'd burned the installation files from one of the first two.
If John bypassed storing the files and then installing, the net install
might miss a file or run just a little askew. Seems like he should know
if he had an old *tex version install.
Seems unlikely to me that the MiKTeX installer might skip or lose an
essential cab file and not throw up an error message, but I've worked in
the Windoze world long enough to believe just about anything bad is
possible. As for the older version, I thought he alluded in one post to
upgrading a prior MiKTeX installation, but I might have hallucinated that.
You got the same result as me so our approaches must be the same while
John has strayed from the righteous path,
and I'm looking for some small difference in our steps.
Your logic is sound, but there are some wild-cards out there (for
instance, an anti-virus program selectively interfering with his
installation).
Cheers,
Paul
