Re: Miktex package management inadequate, want to transition to TexLive.

2016-11-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 11/02/2016 04:00 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: As long as the MikTeX server is awake and answering, you can rest easy. It just so happens that whenever I need MikTeX to work for a workshop, the server gets turned off/taken down. In the design of MikTeX, the package installer cannot retrieve

Re: Miktex package management inadequate, want to transition to TexLive.

2016-11-02 Thread Paul Johnson
As long as the MikTeX server is awake and answering, you can rest easy. It just so happens that whenever I need MikTeX to work for a workshop, the server gets turned off/taken down. In the design of MikTeX, the package installer cannot retrieve package from other CTAN servers without first

Re: Miktex package management inadequate, want to transition to TexLive.

2016-11-02 Thread Roberto Fanciulli
I have uninstalled MiKTeX 2.9 and later also LyX 2.2.2. Then I reinstalled MiKTeX2.9 and updated packages. Finally I reinstalled LyX2.2.2. Currently it seems that everything works. (o.s.: Windows 10) Roberto 2016-11-02 6:24 GMT+01:00 UD : > On 11/02/2016 05:56 AM, Paul

Re: Miktex package management inadequate, want to transition to TexLive.

2016-11-01 Thread UD
On 11/02/2016 05:56 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: It worked once. Failed next two times. I'm putting it in the rearview mirror. pj Paul Johnson http://pj.freefaculty.org On Oct 29, 2016 2:27 PM, "Andrew Parsloe" > wrote: On 29/10/2016

Re: Miktex package management inadequate, want to transition to TexLive.

2016-11-01 Thread Paul Johnson
It worked once. Failed next two times. I'm putting it in the rearview mirror. pj Paul Johnson http://pj.freefaculty.org On Oct 29, 2016 2:27 PM, "Andrew Parsloe" wrote: > > > On 29/10/2016 7:35 p.m., CarLaTeX wrote: > >> >> 2016-10-29 8:09 GMT+02:00 Paul Johnson

Re: Miktex package management inadequate, want to transition to TexLive.

2016-10-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 10/29/2016 01:00 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On the machines where I've done both installs, it appears to me that pdf compile with TexLive is quite a bit faster. Have no idea why, but others have made same claim. TexLive is a surprisingly slow install. Even if you put the whole iso on disk,

Re: Miktex package management inadequate, want to transition to TexLive.

2016-10-29 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 29/10/2016 7:35 p.m., CarLaTeX wrote: 2016-10-29 8:09 GMT+02:00 Paul Johnson >: I wonder if Windows users see this problem in MikTeX regularly. I'm a Linux user, but I try to help the Windows students around here. [...] --

Re: Miktex package management inadequate, want to transition to TexLive.

2016-10-29 Thread Roberto Fanciulli
I appreciate your response and suggestions. In my system I also use TeXLive with WinEdt and at this point I would agree to use even TeXLive with LyX. Change the path in LyX from MiKTeX to TeXLive is sufficient, as you say? Thank you. 2016-10-29 19:00 GMT+02:00 Paul Johnson

Re: Miktex package management inadequate, want to transition to TexLive.

2016-10-29 Thread Paul Johnson
MikTeX server intermittent this morning. It worked on one computer, fails on other 3. Suspect that server is just flaky. There are good arguments for installing TexLive. Its maintained by a community, not just one person, being the most important among them. Plus, with TexLive we are

Re: Miktex package management inadequate, want to transition to TexLive.

2016-10-29 Thread Roberto Fanciulli
By several days the Paul Johnson problem is also my problem and I do not find a solution. I reinstalled MiKTeX many times, but MiKTeX Package, and MiKTeX Update do not work (they do not find any package repository). [image: Immagine incorporata 1] The two alternatives that have remained are: 1)

Re: Miktex package management inadequate, want to transition to TexLive.

2016-10-29 Thread CarLaTeX
2016-10-29 8:09 GMT+02:00 Paul Johnson : > I wonder if Windows users see this problem in MikTeX regularly. I'm a > Linux user, but I try to help the Windows students around here. > > I've done several LyX installs in Windows systems while preparing for > a workshop this

Miktex package management inadequate, want to transition to TexLive.

2016-10-29 Thread Paul Johnson
I wonder if Windows users see this problem in MikTeX regularly. I'm a Linux user, but I try to help the Windows students around here. I've done several LyX installs in Windows systems while preparing for a workshop this week. I think the LyX-2.2.2 installation of MikTeX has some improvements. It