miktex-maketfm.exe: Error response from serve

[Anonymous]

Hi all,
I'm using MikTex 2.9 and I've been trying to generate the pdf file but I keep
getting this error when downloading the package psyr.tfm

The error msg:

downloading [url]http://ctan.mines-albi.fr/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/symbol.cab...[/url]
miktex-maketfm.exe: Error response from server: 407
======================================================================
Running miktex-makemf.exe...
miktex-makemf: The psyr source file could not be found.

Running hbf2gf.exe...

hbf2gf (CJK ver. 4.8.0)

Couldn't find `ps.cfg'

miktex-maketfm: No creation rule for font psyr.
======================================================================

! Font U/psy/m/n/10=psyr at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
<to be read again> 
                   relax 
l.64 {\Pifont{psy}
                  }
?

I changed the package repository several times but keep getting the same
result.

I've been trying for 5 days now! any suggestions?

lots of thanks,
Muneera

[U_Fischer]

Get symbol.cab and the two miktex-zz-files belonging to your miktex version
from CTAN.
(e.g. for 2.9.:
systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/symbol.cab
systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-zzdb1-2.9.tar.lzma
systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-zzdb2-2.9.tar.lzma)

Put the three files in an empty folder outside of miktex and then use this
folder as local repository and install symbol with the package manager.

Ulrike Fischer

[Anonymous]

Hello again,

Thank you for suggestion, it helped fixing the problem.

However, I faced another problem. A package installation window appears with
the following msg:
"The required file: tex\latex\rotating\rotating.sty
is missing"

I downloaded "rotating.zip" from CTAN and followed your steps previously but
got this error in the console output of TeXworks:

starting package maintenance...
installation directory: C:\Users\malbabtain\Desktop\MicTeX
package repository: C:\Users\malbabtain\Desktop\MissPkg
lightweight database digest: 1c214d36a9476310c94254375ffb9830
going to install 7 file(s) (1 package(s))
pdflatex.EXE: The operation could not be completed because a required file does not exist.
======================================================================

! LaTeX Error: File `rotating.sty' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)

Enter file name:

I tried to install it from MicTeX package manager, I'm getting the following
error: (Copied the error)

MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Permission denied: C:\Users\malbabtain\Desktop\MicTex\miktex/data/le\mpm.fndb
Data: C:\Users\malbabtain\Desktop\MicTex\miktex/data/le\mpm.fndb
Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winFile.cpp
Line: 686
MiKTeX: 2.9
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise Edition, 32-bit Service Pack 1 (build 7601)
Invokers: miktex-taskbar-icon
SystemAdmin: no
PowerUser: no
Root0: C:\Users\malbabtain\Desktop\MicTex
UserInstall: C:\Users\malbabtain\Desktop\MicTex
UserConfig: C:\Users\malbabtain\Desktop\MicTex
UserData: C:\Users\malbabtain\Desktop\MicTex
CommonInstall: C:\Users\malbabtain\Desktop\MicTex
CommonConfig: C:\Users\malbabtain\Desktop\MicTex
CommonData: C:\Users\malbabtain\Desktop\MicTex

I have Administrative privileges and my account is within the administators
groups.

I haven’t posted a reply earlier since I wanted to check this issue first but
I didn't get any effective solution yet :(

I would really appreciate your help.

[U_Fischer]

I downloaded "rotating.zip" from CTAN

You can't use the package manager with arbitrary zip-files. You must use the
packages prepared. by miktex which you find in
systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/. In the case of rotating the name of the
package is

systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/rotating.tar.lzma

I have Administrative privileges and my account is within the administators
groups.

You are overrating admin rights. I never needed any admin rights to use
miktex. On all my pc miktex is installed in a restricted user account in
single user mode only for me and it works fine. On a normal pc admins don't
have the rights to do everything - they only have the means to optain such
rights.

Besides this the messages cleary says that you are neither admin nor power
user. If the texmf-tree C:\Users\malbabtain\Desktop\MicTex has been generated
with admin rights it is quite possible that you no longer can access it.

Ulrike Fischer

[Anonymous]

Thank you for such a quick response.

I had downloaded rotating.tar.lzma in the same way I did with symbol, but
nothing has changed.

Regards,
Muneera

[bvp]

u_fischer,
Thank you so much for explaining about the archive files. That saved my day.

One more thing to note: If you are using IE to download files with .tar.lzma
extension, then upon saving of the file to your harddrive, IE changes the
extension to .tar.tar, and MikTeX is unable to recognize the file. Need to
revert the extension manually. Just FYI for anyone browsing this. (I was
limited to using IE at work, unfortunately).