Package download broken

Friday, 25 January 2008 04:02 by CSchenk

It is currently not possible to download packages from the repository. I will fix this in the next few days, say until the end of the month (let's hope). Please remember: I do this in my spare time.

Update (Feb 25):

Without a warning, my web space provider (webhost4life.com) has just stopped the MiKTeX web sites. They say, that "the number of HTTP request is so heavy that causing our server up and down. To maintain the overall heavy usage, we have no choice but stop your sites. Please consider upgrade to...".

I don't know, whether (when) wh4l will re-enable the websites. Of course, I will move the website to another provider. But this can take a couple of days/weeks.

Update (Feb 26):

The web service is now up and running again. In order to reduce bandwidth and CPU usage, I have implemented a simple IP filter: if there are more than N requests from the same IP address within a time span T, then that IP address is blocked for a while.

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January 26. 2008 18:21

jill

are you kidding? i'm freaking out here. i have a job talk to give next week that counts on my being able to download a package - pgf. this is an emergency!!! is there another solution?

jill

January 26. 2008 18:28

AdgeB

@Jill
If all you're after is to install the PGF package, simply go to:
www.ctan.org/.../pgf.html
click on the link to download it (base.zip), then unzip it to an empty directory on your machine. Then use MiKTeX Options > Roots to incorporate that directory as an extra root within your installation, and it should all work.

Once the MiKTeX repositories are working again, you can cleanly remove your PGF root using MiKTeX Options > Roots, and install PGF via the package manager.

If you actually want to demonstrate the package manager installing PGF, well, I suggest resorting to what screen shots you can gather, and 'faking' the ones you can't get.

AdgeB

January 26. 2008 18:36

Boris

To Jill : you could be more polite with Christian Schenk. As he told you, he does his beautiful work, for the hapiness of all of us, in his spare time. Your comment may not encourage him at all to solve the actual problem !

By the way, and until Christain Schenk fixes the repository problem, it seems possible, for those who are in a hurry, to download manually a MiKTeX 2.7 setup and packages on this FTP server :

mirrors.ircam.fr

in the local directory :

/pub/CTAN/systems/win32/miktex/

Boris

January 27. 2008 02:28

jill

thank you both for your helpful comments. and boris - yes you are right. i do come across sounding rude in the above post. sorry, christian! it was written on impulse and in a state of panic.

jill

January 27. 2008 13:33

rb

is the main download also unavailable?

rb

January 28. 2008 11:17

Now package downloading is working as wel as the main download.

Vafa Khalighi

January 29. 2008 16:19

namq

The repositories work OK now. Thanks!

I had to install MiKTeX while the servers were down. Basic version lacked some of the important packages, but I found alternative way: http://www.tug.org/protext/. It includes MiKTeX complete. I intend to keep it in case something goes wrong with the repositories again.

namq

January 30. 2008 06:12

Rob

Yep, downloading works again Smile

But using Miktex 2.5, I don't see any UK mirrors in the list. I would have thought Cambridge and Imperial College should be there. Nothing under England, or United Kingdom.

Rob

January 30. 2008 12:41

The Cambridge mirror has been disabled for a reason I do not remember (perhaps because it is one of the master hosts). Imperial College is not yet on the list. But I didn't find it in CTAN.sites either.

CSchenk

February 7. 2008 12:15

LusoMath

I want to install the MikTeX 2.7 (full package) in a new PC. Is the package download still broken ? Thank you in advance!

LusoMath

February 26. 2008 04:44

Yes, the service is unavailable. Here is more info:
thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.miktex/7656

CSchenk

February 26. 2008 05:27

Werna

Package download broken again? I only get "HTTP ERROR" messages when trying to install packages via mpm...

Werna

February 26. 2008 05:42

Mathias

I face the same problem. Neither the download of packages nor the download of the full package miktey 2.7 works right now.

Mathias

February 26. 2008 08:05

Tom

Just curious if users can help in addition to donations?

Tom

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