MiKTeX Plugin 2.9.6161 Dev Test 2

You da man!

MikTeXPortable.exe will execute, giving an icon in the system tray. Upon right-clicking that icon & selecting, say, "Update MikTeX" or "MikTeX Package Manager", one is greeted with the error message "No such file or directory: X:\PortableApps\MiKTeXPortable\App\MiKTeX\miktex\config\miktexstartup.ini". The entire directory "App\MiKTeX\miktex\config" is missing. Apparently it is not getting copied from the Data\miktex_config directory into the directory App\MikTeX\miktek\config.

At first thank you very much.
The update works now.
Is it really necessary that the setup delete the old MiKTex to install the update?

The separated packs are great because you don't have the pointless miktex icon in the taskbar. thx

It appears that the DirectoriesMove in the Launcher\MikTeXPortable.ini file may be unnecessary. I experimented by copying the MikTeX directory including config files of the DirectoriesMove (the copy was executed while MikTeXPortable was running to include all these files in the copy) to an entirely separate location. I then double-clicked on miktex-portable.cmd in the copied/relocated MikTeX directory, let the icon come up in the icon tray, right-clicked on the icon and clicked on Exit. The MikTeXPortable executable was never used. I used a version of LyX with an environment variable pointing to the moved/relocated MikTeX. LyX was run on a test file, always pointing to the moved MikTex, pre- and post-run of the file "miktex-portable.cmd." On the pre-run the LaTeX generated by LyX failed to compile, of course, and no pdf output could be produced. On the post-run, the file was compiled and displayed beautifully in the pdf output. On both the pre- and post-runs the miktek-icon in the icon tray had already been Exited and, further, MIkTeXPortable.exe was not running. Given the above experiment, doesn't seem unnecessary to do the DirecotoriesMove? If so, then MikTeXPortable can be greatly simplified and there are 2 reasons to use it: (1) for a quick invoke/tray-icon-exit to let MikTeX reset its root after a move of the USB or (2) regular MikTeX maintenance for package updating, etc. In particular, it would not be necessary to keep it open just to use TeXStudio, e.g.

Should be on the "Get Apps" page of PA.c. This is major enabling software for LaTeX-based document processing, such as your own portabilization of TeXStudio, or LyX. Good show.

Others may find this useful:

MIkTeX repositories are huge but do not have all packages. There are many custom LaTeX packages (e.g., document classes & bib styles for a particular university's thesis or for particular journals, etc.). For a single project, one may simply add them to the directory containing the LaTeX or LyX file. To have them available more often, one may desire to have them in MikTeX, but MikTeX may wipe them out on an update, so they should go into a local tex tree.

To portably create a local tex tree, one installs MikTeXPortable, then
(1)adds to the Data directory a sub-directory such as MyLocalTex;
(2)adds the local tex files using a directory stucture subordinate to MyLocalTeX that is identical to the one subordinate to MikTexPortable\App\MikTeX;
(3)executes MikTeXPortable, goes to MikTex Options>Roots>Add and browses to MyLocalTeX & OKs out; and then
(4)goes to the General tab & hits 'Refresh FNDB'.

Done. That's it. The local tex tree goes with you wherever you take MikTexPortable & is automatically portably available. (MikTeX stores the location of MyLocalTeX in the miktexstartup.ini w/i the miktex\config dir as a directory name relative to that dir).

In step (2) often the desired tex files are available as a zip archive with the proper structure so the archive can just be extracted with 7zip into MyLocalTeX.

MikTeX cannot be updated unless user has the secret knowledge to exec the taskbar-icon.exe in the dir CommonFiles\Miktex\miktex
bin\internal. A trivial PA, "MiktexUpdatePortale" or some such, that supplies this missing functionality and that, unlike CommonFiles\.., can be recognized in the PA menu may be helpful.

The Regshot results were clean.

Procedure & Context:
Testing confined to (1) exec of taskbar-icon.exe in CommonFiles\Miktex\miktex\bin\intrnal, (2)selecting Miktex Options from taskbar-icon menu,(3)exec'ing "Refresh FNDB", (4)exiting the taskbar-icon. Context: sterile XP-SP3 VM from an Admin acct.

More info:
All mods to registry and files were to either to the Miktex files, as desired and expected, or from on-going system processes and AV, or from Win Explorer use (...Explorer\ComDlg32\... keys under HKU, e.g.). There was one HKLM mods not from the AV; it was for the Cryptography random seed and was under HKLM rather than HKU due to the Admin acct.

the precise dir-filename was "%Temp%\nsv1AD.tmp\registry.dll";
the fix, as I recall from a comment by Haller on another tex app, is to include
[Activate]
Registry=true

same fix, I think

MiktexPackageManagerPortable, e.g., reported that it could not find the Update Wizard;

for MiktexOPtions.. this path fix looks primarily preventive; Refresh FNDB, Update Formats, e.g., worked fine; however, even from MiktexOPtions one can call the PackageManager, in which case the absence of Miktex binaries from the path would again lead to failures.

Does anyone maintain it?

I would be great to have a fully working portable Tex Environment (Editor + Compiler).

I took over this project. A new Dev Test is available ->here.

Hello,

I installed it (Both the MiKTeX and the Launcher).

When I run the launcher I get the Icon on the System Tray.
Yet when I Right Click it nothing on the menu works.

I mean nothing happens when I click on MiKTeX Options, TeXWorks, Package Manager, etc...

It used to work on the previous release.

Maybe it has to do with the issues I'm having with LyX?

Thank You.

Hi darksabre76,

Any chance you move your projects to GitHub?

Thank You.

Hi,

Version 2.9.6236 of MiKTeX is out.
Any chance to update?

darksabre76, Are you still on this?

Thank You.

Nothing is important compared to that.

I wish you to feel good.

Hi darksabre76,
How do you feel?

Any chance for update soon?

Thank You.