Document Classes ⇒ loading DBlight problem

[ludex]

as a new user I would appreciate any input to this problem:

i am trying to compile a sample tex file using miktex. the tex file is a template article that has been provided by a Springer journal which i would like to submit an article to. however i cannot compile the tex file and I don't understand why. the process seems to get as far as installing the wasy package from a remote location. the final message is "loading DBlight..." which stays on the screen for a long time until i eventually close the dos window.
i have tried installing the wasy package from my hard drive but miktex tells me that the location is not a local repository and does not proceed.

btw the sample tex files, style files etc. provided by the journal can be found at
http://www.springer.com/authors/jrnlstylefiles

thanks in advance

[countbela666]

Hi ludex,

first of all you should try to install the package from another remote package repository. If this does not work you can either install the package via the MiKTeX Package Manager from a local repository or you can install the package without using MiKTeX at all.

If you want to use the Package Manager, you have to specify a directory to load the archived package from. This directory must include the following two files to be recognised by MiKTeX as a valid package repository:

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miktex-zzdb1-[VERSION].tar.bz2
miktex-zzdb2-[VERSION].tar.bz2

Hereby [VERSION] has to be replaced by your MiKTeX version (should be 2.5 or 2.6). You can obtain those files from CTAN: http://ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win ... /packages/.

If you want to go without MiKTeX, you just have to get the STY files you want to install (if the package comes as a INS and DTX file you have to compile both files with LaTeX), put them somewhere LaTeX can find them (e.g. the documentation in C:\Program files\MiKTeX 2.5\doc\latex\foo and the package in C:\Program files\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\latex\foo) and refresh the file name database by executing "texhash" on a command prompt.

BTW: I don't encounter any problems in compiling the linked sample files, so it really seems to be a problem of missing packages which can't be installed properly.

Regards
Marcel

[ludex]

Marcel,

thanks very much for that reply, that was really helpful.

I think the problem was that I hadnt got miktex-zzdb2.tar.bz2 (I am using miktex v2.4)

I got it using the miktex update wizard.

After updating the compilation went ok, albeit I had to hit the return key a few times at various times
to proceed the compilation past errors in creating some wasy fonts.

Thanks again,
All the best
Mike

[localghost]

[...] I think the problem was that I hadnt got miktex-zzdb2.tar.bz2 (I am using miktex v2.4) [...]

Then it's no surprise that you don't get any packages from a remote repository. All repositories for MiKTeX 2.4 were closed by the end of 2006 and it was declared obsolete. The maintainer strongly recommends an upgrade to the current version, which is MiKTeX 2.6 at the moment.

[ludex]

point taken, thanks.