[MiKTeX] Re: problem with MikTeX "options" program, doesn"t refresh fndb

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On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:36:23AM +0100, Giovanni Ferro Luzzi wrote:
 > Hi ,
 > I"ve just recently installed miktex from a CD on my home computer. There 
 > seems however to be a problem with the "options" command "refresh 
 > filename database". It justs doesn"t do it. There"s a little blip,  a 
 > lion icon appears for a tiny fraction of a second and that"s all I can 
 > see, no error message, but the database isn"t refreshed because it 
 > doesn"t see the packages in the localtexmf directory tree.
 
And Hans F. Nordhaug replied:

 > What? Oh, you have installed some package manually in the localtexmf tree and
 > it isn"t found when you run latex? This is the most FAQ. You must follow TDS
 > <http://tds.tug.org/tds/> which means that your package should be placed in
 > localtexmf\tex\latex\yourpackage
 
 > Hans
 
 > PS! Running "initexmf -u -v" shows wether the filename database is actually
 > updated.
 
Apparently, Hans misunderstood the problem ;-( I am getting exactly the same
problem after installing small MiKTeX from the October 2004 CD. However,
when I run initexmf -u from a command window, it works just fine. Something
is broken somewhere...

Having said that, I have another problem. dvips fails with "8r.enc file not
found" message, although the file is located in two places:

C:\TeX\MiKTeX\fonts\enc\dvips\fontname\8r.enc
C:\TeX\MiKTeX\fonts\enc\dvips\psnfss\8r.enc

FYI, C:\TeX is my MiKTeX root.

Any help is appreciated.

Rasit
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