Re: [MiKTeX] Strange error message when trying to install packages

[Martin S. <sch...@gm...>]

Alan Ristow schrieb:
> Martin Sievers wrote:
>   
>> Hello everyone,
>> yesterday I got a strange error message when trying to update MiKTeX
>> 2.6: "Server was unable to process request. ---> Input string was not in
>> a correct format"
>> I changed the server and everything worked. However installing packages
>> with the Package-Manager did not. Today the same procedure. An Update
>> worked, the installation of packages does not.
>>     
>
> Are Update and the Package Manager both using the same repository when 
> this happens?
>   
Yes, an update via ftp.fu-berlin.de worked while a manuell installation
directly afterwards did not.
As I write this Christian Schenk gives an explanation or at least
confirmes the problem.

Martin