Re: [MiKTeX] RE: installing Metapost in MikTeX 2.2

[Philip G. R. <phi...@ti...>]

This topic is rapidly reaching the status of a VFAQ.

1. Metapost does indeed come with MiKTeX so there's NO need to install
anything by hand: if something is missing, the best solution is always to
use the MiKTeX package manager.

2. However!  And this is the problem!  Any time you update, reinstall or do
anything to metapost, you almost certainly need to perform makemem plain BY
HAND (i.e., at the DOS command line) afterwards.

Unfortunately, this is not obvious.  I've written to Christian Schenk about
it and one would hope that sooner or later the process will be properly
automated.

Cheers,  Phil Ratcliffe

P.S.  The error messages one gets are not at all helpful - I was just
getting a message suggesting that somethng was wrong with a specific package
(feynmf), which was indeed perfectly ok and makemem plain sorted everything
out.

----- Original Message -----
From: "walter a kehowski" <wke...@co...>
To: <mik...@li...>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 4:06 AM
Subject: [MiKTeX] RE: installing Metapost in MikTeX 2.2


>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cornelius C. Noack [mailto:no...@ph...]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 6:00 AM
> > To: mik...@li...
> > Subject: [MiKTeX] installing Metapost in MikTeX 2.2
> >
> >
> > About 2 weeks ago I asked for help regarding MetaPost:
> >
> > > I am trying to install Metapost in my MikTeX installation
> > > (Version 2.2).
>
> A question just ocurred to me: WHY are you trying to install metapost?
It's
> already installed as part of the distribution -- no user intervention
> required. Since you have a localtexmf directory, just reinstall miktex and
> execute 'makemem plain' and you should be ready to go. It's an extreme
> solution, I'll admit.
>
> Walter Kehowski
>
>
>
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