MiKTeX and proTeXt ⇒ Problem with installing fancyhdr

[fanski]

Hello everybody,

I just installed Miktex 2.7 which basically works totally fine. But when I want to install the fancyhdr package the following error message appears:

MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Server was unable to process request. ---> Invalid character in the given encoding. Line 198, position 16.
Data:
Source: C:\work3\miktex-2.7\Libraries\MiKTeX\PackageManager\PackageManager.cpp
Line: 1291
MiKTeX: 2.7
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
SystemAdmin: yes
PowerUser: no
SharedSetup: yes
BinDir: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\miktex\bin
Root0: C:\Documents and Settings\fanfrei\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.7
Root1: C:\Documents and Settings\fanfrei\Local Settings\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.7
Root2: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.7
Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7
Install: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7
UserConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\fanfrei\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.7
UserData: C:\Documents and Settings\fanfrei\Local Settings\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.7
CommonConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.7
CommonData: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.7

Anybody familiar with this problem and an idea on how to solve it?
Many thanks for you help.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi fanski,

welcome to the LaTeX Community board!
Try Synchronizing the package repository. If the installation is still not working then, try a different repository/ server.
I will move that topic from LaTeX/ Packages & Document Classes to LaTeX Distributions/ MiKTeX because it should be only a MiKTeX issue.

Stefan