Re: [MiKTeX] Package Manager fails

[Christian S. <cs...@mi...>]

Reinhard Schaeck wrote:
> Christian Schenk schrieb:
>> Reinhard Schaeck wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm running Windows Vista and upgraded today to MiKTeX 2.6 (uninstalled
>>> 2.5 and installed 2.6) with the basic installer (for one single user).
>>> As I had always problems with the Update Manager from behind a firewall
>>> I now downloaded the complete tpm-directory to an external drive.
>>> With MiKTeX 2.5 I was able to install selected packages in the past from
>>> this download-directory.
>>> MiKTeX 2.6 fails, however, as soon as I call the Package Manager: When I
>>> want to change the repository to the download directory, I get the message:
>> I cannot reproduce this at the moment. It seems that the package manager 
>> cannot be started as an elevated process. You should create a DebugView 
>> trace with MIKTEX_TRACE=error,mpm,config,core (see 
>> http://miktex.org/Diagnosing.aspx).
>>
> This is the output of the DebugView program:
 >
 > [snip]


Thank you. So it seems that the package manager fails to launch the UAC 
consent prompt. Have you turned off UAC?

It should be possible to work-around the problem: run the application as 
administrator.