MiKTeX and proTeXt ⇒ MikTeX updater problem with geometry package

[drumex]

Hey! I noticed today that the geomery package was updated, so I ran the MikTeX updater do get the new version of that and any other updates that were available.

Well, after the update, my geometry package doesn't work anymore. pdfLaTeX is coming up with the message "! LaTeX Error: File 'geometry.sty' not found."

I went to the folder "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\source\latex\geometry" and there wasn't anything there. So I downloaded the zip file from CTAN here and unzipped it to that folder. I ran the command "tex geometry.dtx" to get the style file and I put that into the folder "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\geometry". Now, all the manual work is something I've never done before since MikTeX handles all of the configuring by itself, so I think I probably have done something wrong there.

What should I do? How can I get geometry package running again?

[localghost]

Hm. The easiest way would have been to un-install and afterwards re-install the geometry package with the MiKTeX Package Manager (MPM). But now that you have unpacked the STY file, you only need to refresh the file name database. You can do that by calling the MiKTeX Settings from the Start menu or via command prompt, where you type texhash or mktexlsr. In that command prompt you can check where the package file is located.

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kpsewhich geometry.sty

With no output, your efforts failed.

[drumex]

I ran the MikTeX Settings and refreshed the filename database and that solved the problem.

Thank you.

[localghost]

The problem was caused by a (sometimes occurring) packaging fault of the maintainer. The Nov 16th update of the MiKTeX Package Repositories fixes this. geometry now can be updated as usual with the built-in Update function.


Best regards
Thorsten¹