Re: [MiKTeX] Downloading MiKTeX 2.7 full repository

[Ralf H. <ral...@ya...>]

On Tuesday, January 29, 2008 5:01 PM , ger...@dg...
<ger...@dg...> wrote:

> Hello there,
>
> can a full repository of MiKTeX 2.7 be downloaded directly, without
> using the setup.exe?

If the ftp server offers a zipping service it should be no problem, do 
download the whole miktex from that server as a zip-file (for example 
ftp://ftp.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/ as 
ftp://ftp.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages.zip). 
With a ftp-client it is also no problem to get the whole folder - 
without packing. Then you can do the installation from the local 
miktex/tm/packages-folder.

Out of my own experience over years with the commercial Ipswitch WS_FTP
Professional it is no problem to synchronize the local repository with
one of those repositories on German ftp-servers and then to update my
miktex installation.

Ralf