MiKTeX

On 12-09-2009 16:21, Ariovaldo V Garcia wrote:

> I've just upgraded to Miktex 2.8. With  Miktex 2.7 I had a local dir:
> 
>     <miktex home> /tex/latex/local
> 
> where I put my own files. Every time I put another file in this dir I
> only run "refresh FNDB"  and everything worked.  But, it seems that
> this is not true (for me) with Miktex 2.8...
> 
> Any help? Did I make any mistake?

The standard place to put all those files under MiKTeX 2.8 is:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.8\

Best regards,

Jose Carlos Santos

Ariovaldo V Garcia wrote:
> Hi MikTex users
> 
> I've just upgraded to Miktex 2.8. With  Miktex 2.7 I had a local dir:
> 
>     <miktex home> /tex/latex/local
> 
> where I put my own files. Every time I put another file in this dir I
> only run "refresh FNDB"  and everything worked.  But, it seems that
> this is not true (for me) with Miktex 2.8...
> 
> Any help? Did I make any mistake?

I can be a bug. Have you added the local dir for all users? Then you 
have to use the admin variant to refresh the FNDB.

I install miktex 2.8 in windows Vista 32 bit. When I run update it show me
list of new items but all of them are unchecked. When I try to check them
application responds me that miktex is installed for all users and only
admin can perform this operation. Even in admin mode I get the same message.
Therefore I have to enable admin account to make update. I do it only in
extreme case. I did not have this problem in miktex 2.7 and will appreciate
if the same policy will be now.

Aleks Kleyn
http://www.geocities.com/Aleks_Kleyn/ 
http://AleksKleyn.blogspot.com/

I switch to administrator mode with the same success. Even when I added to
application property run in adm mode I was not able to update. It is not
clear how to get fixed module.

Aleks Kleyn
http://www.geocities.com/Aleks_Kleyn/ 
http://AleksKleyn.blogspot.com/

I resolve the problem. I found in menu update in administrative mode and it
works.\
Thank you

Aleks Kleyn
http://www.geocities.com/Aleks_Kleyn/ 
http://AleksKleyn.blogspot.com/

I resolve the problem. I found in menu update in administrative mode and it
works.\
Thank you

Aleks Kleyn
http://www.geocities.com/Aleks_Kleyn/ 
http://AleksKleyn.blogspot.com/

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Christian Schenk <cs@...> wrote:
> Ariovaldo V Garcia wrote:
>> Hi MikTex users
>>
>> I've just upgraded to Miktex 2.8. With  Miktex 2.7 I had a local dir:
>>
>>     <miktex home> /tex/latex/local
>>
>> where I put my own files. Every time I put another file in this dir I
>> only run "refresh FNDB"  and everything worked.  But, it seems that
>> this is not true (for me) with Miktex 2.8...
>>
>> Any help? Did I make any mistake?
>
> I can be a bug. Have you added the local dir for all users? Then you
> have to use the admin variant to refresh the FNDB.
>
>

I guess that this is not the problem, since  there is only one user
(me) - I am using WinXP in this machine.

In the other reply (José Carlos Santos) said that I must put the files in

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.8\

is this correct? As far as I know the system "see" all files below the

  <miktex home>\tex\latex\local

dir
...

Ariovaldo

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Ariovaldo V Garcia <garcia.av@...> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Christian Schenk <cs@...> wrote:
>> Ariovaldo V Garcia wrote:
>>> Hi MikTex users
>>>
>>> I've just upgraded to Miktex 2.8. With  Miktex 2.7 I had a local dir:
>>>
>>>     <miktex home> /tex/latex/local
>>>
>>> where I put my own files. Every time I put another file in this dir I
>>> only run "refresh FNDB"  and everything worked.  But, it seems that
>>> this is not true (for me) with Miktex 2.8...
>>>
>>> Any help? Did I make any mistake?
>>
>> I can be a bug. Have you added the local dir for all users? Then you
>> have to use the admin variant to refresh the FNDB.
>>
>>
>
> I guess that this is not the problem, since  there is only one user
> (me) - I am using WinXP in this machine.
>
> In the other reply (José Carlos Santos) said that I must put the files in
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.8\
>
> is this correct? As far as I know the system "see" all files below the
>
>  <miktex home>\tex\latex\local
>
> dir
> ...
>
> Ariovaldo
>

Now  it is working!
I had to put my "local dir" in

C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.8\tex\local

Notice that it does'nt work if I put the local file in the dir

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.8\tex\local

Ariovaldo.

Ariovaldo V Garcia wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Christian Schenk <cs@...> wrote:
>> Ariovaldo V Garcia wrote:
>>> Hi MikTex users
>>>
>>> I've just upgraded to Miktex 2.8. With  Miktex 2.7 I had a local dir:
>>>
>>>     <miktex home> /tex/latex/local
>>>
>>> where I put my own files. Every time I put another file in this dir I
>>> only run "refresh FNDB"  and everything worked.  But, it seems that
>>> this is not true (for me) with Miktex 2.8...
>>>
>>> Any help? Did I make any mistake?
>> I can be a bug. Have you added the local dir for all users? Then you
>> have to use the admin variant to refresh the FNDB.
>>
>>
> 
> I guess that this is not the problem, since  there is only one user
> (me) - I am using WinXP in this machine.

Yes, I know that. But nevertheless there are two variants of the MiKTeX 
configuration utility. The standard variant changes per-user 
configuration settings. The admin variant changes settings for all 
computer users. Though even if you (think you) are the only user, you 
still have the two variants. It would be nice if you answer the 
question: have you uses the admin variant or the standard variant when 
you added the local TEXMF dir.

> 
> In the other reply (José Carlos Santos) said that I must put the files in
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.8\

No. That's not the right directory. It's a bad idea to store your 
private files here. This directory is controlled (maintained) by MiKTeX. 
You shouldn't even have to know that it exists. If you uninstall MiKTeX, 
the directory will be removed. Be smart: don't store important files in 
the above directory path.

Ariovaldo V Garcia wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Ariovaldo V Garcia <garcia.av@...> wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Christian Schenk <cs@...> wrote:
>>> Ariovaldo V Garcia wrote:
>>>> Hi MikTex users
>>>>
>>>> I've just upgraded to Miktex 2.8. With  Miktex 2.7 I had a local dir:
>>>>
>>>>     <miktex home> /tex/latex/local
>>>>
>>>> where I put my own files. Every time I put another file in this dir I
>>>> only run "refresh FNDB"  and everything worked.  But, it seems that
>>>> this is not true (for me) with Miktex 2.8...
>>>>
>>>> Any help? Did I make any mistake?
>>> I can be a bug. Have you added the local dir for all users? Then you
>>> have to use the admin variant to refresh the FNDB.
>>>
>>>
>> I guess that this is not the problem, since  there is only one user
>> (me) - I am using WinXP in this machine.
>>
>> In the other reply (José Carlos Santos) said that I must put the files in
>>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.8\
>>
>> is this correct? As far as I know the system "see" all files below the
>>
>>  <miktex home>\tex\latex\local
>>
>> dir
>> ...
>>
>> Ariovaldo
>>
> 
> Now  it is working!
> I had to put my "local dir" in
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.8\tex\local

Bad idea (see my other post). Don't use this directory path.

On 13-09-2009 18:44, Christian Schenk wrote:

>>>>> I've just upgraded to Miktex 2.8. With  Miktex 2.7 I had a local dir:
>>>>>
>>>>>     <miktex home> /tex/latex/local
>>>>>
>>>>> where I put my own files. Every time I put another file in this dir I
>>>>> only run "refresh FNDB"  and everything worked.  But, it seems that
>>>>> this is not true (for me) with Miktex 2.8...
>>>>>
>>>>> Any help? Did I make any mistake?
>>>> I can be a bug. Have you added the local dir for all users? Then you
>>>> have to use the admin variant to refresh the FNDB.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I guess that this is not the problem, since  there is only one user
>>> (me) - I am using WinXP in this machine.
>>>
>>> In the other reply (José Carlos Santos) said that I must put the files in
>>>
>>> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.8\
>>>
>>> is this correct? As far as I know the system "see" all files below the
>>>
>>>  <miktex home>\tex\latex\local
>>>
>>> dir
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Ariovaldo
>>>
>> Now  it is working!
>> I had to put my "local dir" in
>>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.8\tex\local
> 
> Bad idea (see my other post). Don't use this directory path.

I am sorry for having suggested a bad idea. I don't know where I got the
idea, but I had been doing this for a long time (since I was using
MiKTeX 2.6, I think, but certainly with version 2.7), and I even put the
files there respecting the TDS structure.

On the other hand, I think the the place suggested here:

http://docs.miktex.org/manual/localadditions.html

as the place to put local files is a bit strange. It seems to me that
files installed for all users should be put somewhere within

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\

BTW, I have a suggestion for you. Could you please add the file
fixpdfmag.tex to the MiKTeX distribution? It is one of my local files
and I think that it is very useful for those who compile Plain TeX with
PDFTeX.

Best regards,

Jose Carlos Santos

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Christian Schenk <cs@...> wrote:
> Ariovaldo V Garcia wrote:...
>> I guess that this is not the problem, since  there is only one user
>> (me) - I am using WinXP in this machine.
>
> Yes, I know that. But nevertheless there are two variants of the MiKTeX
> configuration utility. The standard variant changes per-user
> configuration settings. The admin variant changes settings for all
> computer users. Though even if you (think you) are the only user, you
> still have the two variants. It would be nice if you answer the
> question: have you uses the admin variant or the standard variant when
> you added the local TEXMF dir.
>

Well, I have installed Miktex 2.8 following the default steps. And I
choosed (I guess) the option to install for all users. I wonder if
there is any test or check that I could make to answer the question
that you made. If yes please tell me..

>>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.8\
>
> No. That's not the right directory. It's a bad idea to store your
> private files here. This directory is controlled (maintained) by MiKTeX.
> You shouldn't even have to know that it exists. If you uninstall MiKTeX,
> the directory will be removed. Be smart: don't store important files in
> the above directory path.
>

OK

I will put the files in another directory and change the "Roots"..

Thank you

(and I would like to congratulate you for your work with miktex...)

am Sonntag, 13. September 2009 um 19:34 schrieb Christian Schenk:


> Yes, I know that. But nevertheless there are two variants of the MiKTeX
> configuration utility. The standard variant changes per-user 
> configuration settings. The admin variant changes settings for all 
> computer users. Though even if you (think you) are the only user, you 
> still have the two variants. It would be nice if you answer the 
> question: have you uses the admin variant or the standard variant when
> you added the local TEXMF dir.

This starts to ressemble discussions about TeXLive ;-). Regularly in
the last years I have seen TeXLive user messing up their system
because they got confused and used the user-version of a tool instead
of the -sys-version or the other way round.

I think it would be a good idea if the tools gave a clear feedback,
e.g. if when you update the FNDB you should get a message:

Updated fndb of root ...
....
Skipped root ... use the admin version of  the tool
skipped other user roots: use ...

A column in miktex settings in the root tab which show the "admin-status" of
the roots would be fine too.

Disclaimer: I don't have miktex 2.8 yet, so it is quite possible that
such messages exist already.


-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Ulrike Fischer

Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> I think it would be a good idea if the tools gave a clear feedback,
> e.g. if when you update the FNDB you should get a message:

I say this with the same caveat that I haven't yet installed MiKTeX 2.8
(entirely down to a lack of time!). Although there's clearly a precedent (in
TeXlive) for having two versions of tools, would it not be easier to have
one version of the tool which simply tests if it has write access to the
global FNDBs and updates those FNDBs if it does and otherwise just updates
the local FNDBs (with Ulrike's suggested visual feedback)? That way:

    a) Windows XP users (and all other pre-UAC OS users) would notice no
change in operation for MiKTeX
    b) Windows Vista/7 users would just have to remember to run either an
elevated shortcut or execute the command from an elevated command prompt
(same as for any other task requiring admin. privileges)

(I suggest this only because I would have thought that it's reasonably easy
to retrofit such an idea to the existing tools as the user variant of the
tool could be the one altered)



David

José Carlos Santos wrote:
> I am sorry for having suggested a bad idea. I don't know where I got the
> idea, but I had been doing this for a long time (since I was using
> MiKTeX 2.6, I think, but certainly with version 2.7), and I even put the
> files there respecting the TDS structure.
> 
> On the other hand, I think the the place suggested here:
> 
> http://docs.miktex.org/manual/localadditions.html
> 
> as the place to put local files is a bit strange. It seems to me that
> files installed for all users should be put somewhere within
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\

Something like %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\texmf seems like a logical choice for 
XP users. %ALLUSERSPROFILE% on a Vista machine usually has the value 
C:\ProgramData. This is a hidden folder. Not so good for documentation 
purposes.

> 
> BTW, I have a suggestion for you. Could you please add the file
> fixpdfmag.tex to the MiKTeX distribution? It is one of my local files
> and I think that it is very useful for those who compile Plain TeX with
> PDFTeX.

Thanks for the info. I will add this package.

Well, I`ve just installed Miktex 2.8 in a Windows Vista (Ultimate SP2) PC.
I installed as an administrator and using the option to install it for
all users.

Everything works but... I had the same problem with the "Refresh FNDB"
previously mentioned.

In the sequence I have tried to add a directory in the Roots  to put
my personal tex files. I tried  C:\texmf\local.

I got the error: "Not a TDS-compliant root directory."

...

Ariovaldo






On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Christian Schenk <cs@...> wrote:
> José Carlos Santos wrote:
>> I am sorry for having suggested a bad idea. I don't know where I got the
>> idea, but I had been doing this for a long time (since I was using
>> MiKTeX 2.6, I think, but certainly with version 2.7), and I even put the
>> files there respecting the TDS structure.
>>
>> On the other hand, I think the the place suggested here:
>>
>> http://docs.miktex.org/manual/localadditions.html
>>
>> as the place to put local files is a bit strange. It seems to me that
>> files installed for all users should be put somewhere within
>>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\
>
> Something like %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\texmf seems like a logical choice for
> XP users. %ALLUSERSPROFILE% on a Vista machine usually has the value
> C:\ProgramData. This is a hidden folder. Not so good for documentation
> purposes.
>
>>
>> BTW, I have a suggestion for you. Could you please add the file
>> fixpdfmag.tex to the MiKTeX distribution? It is one of my local files
>> and I think that it is very useful for those who compile Plain TeX with
>> PDFTeX.
>
> Thanks for the info. I will add this package.
>
>
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am Montag, 14. September 2009 um 16:54 schrieb Ariovaldo V Garcia:



> In the sequence I have tried to add a directory in the Roots  to put
> my personal tex files. I tried  C:\texmf\local.

> I got the error: "Not a TDS-compliant root directory."

A root must contain at least a small part of the TDS-structure. Create
a subfolder tex/latex.


-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Ulrike Fischer

Ariovaldo V Garcia wrote:
> Well, I`ve just installed Miktex 2.8 in a Windows Vista (Ultimate SP2) PC.
> I installed as an administrator and using the option to install it for
> all users.
> 
> Everything works but... I had the same problem with the "Refresh FNDB"
> previously mentioned.
> 
> In the sequence I have tried to add a directory in the Roots  to put
> my personal tex files. I tried  C:\texmf\local.
> 
> I got the error: "Not a TDS-compliant root directory."

Have you populated C:\texmf\local? If so, make sure that it is 
TDS-compliant (i.e., has a tex sub-folder). If you don't know, what 
TDS-compliant means: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tds

I created

C:\texmf\tex\local

and  now it is working.

Thank you (and also thanks Ulrike).

Ariovaldo


On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Christian Schenk <cs@...> wrote:
> Ariovaldo V Garcia wrote:
>> Well, I`ve just installed Miktex 2.8 in a Windows Vista (Ultimate SP2) PC.
>> I installed as an administrator and using the option to install it for
>> all users.
>>
>> Everything works but... I had the same problem with the "Refresh FNDB"
>> previously mentioned.
>>
>> In the sequence I have tried to add a directory in the Roots  to put
>> my personal tex files. I tried  C:\texmf\local.
>>
>> I got the error: "Not a TDS-compliant root directory."
>
> Have you populated C:\texmf\local? If so, make sure that it is
> TDS-compliant (i.e., has a tex sub-folder). If you don't know, what
> TDS-compliant means: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tds
>
>
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Hello,

I installed MiKTeX Tools 2.8.3541-1 (deb-package) on ubuntu 9.10 with 
texlive 2007, installed via synaptics package manager.

These are my problems:

(1) miktex tools is missing the file pdftexconfig(.tex). I found it 
in texlive, but I don't know where to place it in miktex?

(2) miktex tools is missing the file miktex-mf:

miktex-makepk: The application file /usr/bin/miktex-mf could not be 
found!

I compiled miktex from source (MiKTeX 2.8.3541 Source Code), but even 
there this file is not to be found. 

Regards
Wolfgang Buechel

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Wolfgang Buechel <wjb131@...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed MiKTeX Tools 2.8.3541-1 (deb-package) on ubuntu 9.10 with
> texlive 2007, installed via synaptics package manager.

TL2007 has much older older versions of pdftex, etc. than MiKTeX 8.
You need to install TL2009, either the CTAN version or the experimental
package.

> These are my problems:
>
> (1) miktex tools is missing the file pdftexconfig(.tex). I found it
> in texlive, but I don't know where to place it in miktex?

The version of pdftex in TL2007 did not use pdftexconfig.tex.

> (2) miktex tools is missing the file miktex-mf:
>
> miktex-makepk: The application file /usr/bin/miktex-mf could not be
> found!

/usr/bin/miktex-mf does not exist on my system either, but is mentioned
in miktex-makepk-2.8

> I compiled miktex from source (MiKTeX 2.8.3541 Source Code), but even
> there this file is not to be found.
>
> Regards
> Wolfgang Buechel
>
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Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

Hello,

I installed TL2009 (medium scheme) and MiKTeX Tools.

(pdf)latex sample2e.tex    works, 

miktex-pdftex --undump=latex sample2e    works. 

BUT  

miktex-pdftex --undump=pdflatex sample2e 

gives an error message:

------------------
miktex-pdftex --undump=pdflatex sample2e
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (MiKTeX Tools 2.8)
entering extended mode
(/home/wolli/miktex-texmf/tex/latex/base/sample2e.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, 
nohyphenation, ge
rman, ngerman, german-x-2009-06-19, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, french, 
loaded.
(/home/wolli/miktex-texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document 
class
(/home/wolli/miktex-texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) 
(/home/wolli/sample2e.aux
) (/home/wolli/miktex-texmf/tex/latex/base/omscmr.fd) [1

pdfTeX warning: miktex-pdftex (file pdftex.map): cannot open font map 
file
] [2] [3] (/home/wolli/sample2e.aux)Trying to make PK font cmr8 at 
600 DPI...
Creating cmr8.pk...
miktex-makepk: The application file /usr/bin/miktex-mf could not be 
found.
 )
!pdfTeX error: miktex-pdftex (file cmr8): Font cmr8 at 600 not found
 ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
-------------------

Any hints are appreciated.

Regards
Wolfgang Buechel



On 10 Mar 2010 at 9:36, George N. White III wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Wolfgang Buechel <wjb131@...> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I installed MiKTeX Tools 2.8.3541-1 (deb-package) on ubuntu 9.10 with
> > texlive 2007, installed via synaptics package manager.
> 
> TL2007 has much older older versions of pdftex, etc. than MiKTeX 8.
> You need to install TL2009, either the CTAN version or the experimental
> package.
> 
> > These are my problems:
> >
> > (1) miktex tools is missing the file pdftexconfig(.tex). I found it
> > in texlive, but I don't know where to place it in miktex?
> 
> The version of pdftex in TL2007 did not use pdftexconfig.tex.
> 
> > (2) miktex tools is missing the file miktex-mf:
> >
> > miktex-makepk: The application file /usr/bin/miktex-mf could not be
> > found!
> 
> /usr/bin/miktex-mf does not exist on my system either, but is mentioned
> in miktex-makepk-2.8
> 
> > I compiled miktex from source (MiKTeX 2.8.3541 Source Code), but even
> > there this file is not to be found.
> >
> > Regards
> > Wolfgang Buechel
> >
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> 
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Wolfgang Buechel <wjb131@...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed TL2009 (medium scheme) and MiKTeX Tools.

MiKTeX stores the list of texmf directories in a config file:

~/.miktex/miktex/config/miktexstartup.ini

 If the new TL does not use the same paths as the old version, so changes
are needed.   On this system I first installed MiKTeX for CTAN TL2008,
so I edited the config by hand to replace /usr/local/texlve/2008 with
/usr/local/texlive/2009 and ran "initexmf -u" to refresh the fndb's.

The first time I ran miktex-pdftex --undump=pdflatex a couple packages
for German hyphenation were installed by mpm.  This gave GUI popup
windows.

> (pdf)latex sample2e.tex    works,
>
> miktex-pdftex --undump=latex sample2e    works.
>
> BUT
>
> miktex-pdftex --undump=pdflatex sample2e
>
> gives an error message:
>
> ------------------
> miktex-pdftex --undump=pdflatex sample2e
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (MiKTeX Tools 2.8)
> entering extended mode
> (/home/wolli/miktex-texmf/tex/latex/base/sample2e.tex

My system uses the files from  texmf-dist/tex/latex/base

> LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
> nohyphenation, ge
> rman, ngerman, german-x-2009-06-19, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, french,
> loaded.
> (/home/wolli/miktex-texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document
> class
> (/home/wolli/miktex-texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> (/home/wolli/sample2e.aux
> ) (/home/wolli/miktex-texmf/tex/latex/base/omscmr.fd) [1
>
> pdfTeX warning: miktex-pdftex (file pdftex.map): cannot open font map
> file

I don't get this error (using texmf trees from CTAN TL2009).

$ kpsewhich pdftex.map
/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map

This agrees with the entry in the log file.  Check this against the list
of texmf directories from 'initexmf --report'.

> ] [2] [3] (/home/wolli/sample2e.aux)Trying to make PK font cmr8 at
> 600 DPI...
> Creating cmr8.pk...
> miktex-makepk: The application file /usr/bin/miktex-mf could not be
> found.
>  )
> !pdfTeX error: miktex-pdftex (file cmr8): Font cmr8 at 600 not found
>  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
> -------------------
>
> Any hints are appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Wolfgang Buechel
>
>
>
> On 10 Mar 2010 at 9:36, George N. White III wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Wolfgang Buechel <wjb131@...> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I installed MiKTeX Tools 2.8.3541-1 (deb-package) on ubuntu 9.10 with
>> > texlive 2007, installed via synaptics package manager.
>>
>> TL2007 has much older older versions of pdftex, etc. than MiKTeX 8.
>> You need to install TL2009, either the CTAN version or the experimental
>> package.
>>
>> > These are my problems:
>> >
>> > (1) miktex tools is missing the file pdftexconfig(.tex). I found it
>> > in texlive, but I don't know where to place it in miktex?
>>
>> The version of pdftex in TL2007 did not use pdftexconfig.tex.
>>
>> > (2) miktex tools is missing the file miktex-mf:
>> >
>> > miktex-makepk: The application file /usr/bin/miktex-mf could not be
>> > found!
>>
>> /usr/bin/miktex-mf does not exist on my system either, but is mentioned
>> in miktex-makepk-2.8
>>
>> > I compiled miktex from source (MiKTeX 2.8.3541 Source Code), but even
>> > there this file is not to be found.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Wolfgang Buechel
>> >
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