Uninstallation Problem

[yuki latt]

Dear all,

    I have 2 seperate folders: texmf and localtexmf. To uninstall Miktex, I
went to Add/Remove program. But there is no Miktex. I dont remember I have
already installed it or that folder is not there since the beginning.

   So if I want to uninstall Miktex, how should I remove texmf and
localtexmf ? By simply deleting the folder? Or is there some graceful method
?



The reason why I want to uninstall the Miktex as follows. When I compile tex
file in cygwin, I got some errors. I think there are some built-in font
folders in cygwin (TeTex) and I have Miktex and pTex. I dont know what
happened in what fonts. So firstly, I am reinstalling cygwin. If I cant
still compile tex file, then I will reinstall Miktex and uninstall pTex.  So
to reinstall Miktex, I need to unstall it first.

Any idea will be much appreciated.

regards,
yuki
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[Ulrike Fischer-2]

am Sonntag, 20. Juli 2008 um 17:48 schrieb yuki latt:

> Dear all,

>     I have 2 seperate folders: texmf and localtexmf. To uninstall Miktex, I
> went to Add/Remove program. But there is no Miktex. I dont remember I have
> already installed it or that folder is not there since the beginning.

>    So if I want to uninstall Miktex, how should I remove texmf and
> localtexmf ? By simply deleting the folder? Or is there some graceful method
> ?

> The reason why I want to uninstall the Miktex as follows. When I compile tex
> file in cygwin, I got some errors. I think there are some built-in font
> folders in cygwin (TeTex) and I have Miktex and pTex. I dont know what
> happened in what fonts. So firstly, I am reinstalling cygwin. If I cant
> still compile tex file, then I will reinstall Miktex and uninstall pTex.  So
> to reinstall Miktex, I need to unstall it first.

localtexmf sounds as if you still have miktex 2.4. I don't remember if
it puts things in registry. I don't think not, probably you could
deinstall it simply by deleting the folders.

But be aware: - The current version of miktex is 2.7 and a lot of
things have changes.

- I don't think it will solve your problems if
you de/reinstall Miktex or cygwin. The most probably sources of
problems are wrong path settings and a faulty document. Neither
problem will be cured by reinstalling. It is much better if you first
make a complete minimal example that demonstrates your problem and
sent it together with a log file. You should also check the value of
the PATH-variabel.


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Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Ulrike Fischer
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[yuki latt]

Hi,

   Thanks for your email. Last night I reinstalled cygwin.  I havent
manually remove texmf and localtexmf folders yet although I dont remember I
uninstalled MikTex in several months ago. And I didnt uninstall pTex as per
your suggestion.)

I will include some problems when I tried to compile tex file in cygwin.


$ latex
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
**my_file.tex
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
/usr/bin/mktexfmt: line 333: /texconfig/tcfmgr: No such file or directory
fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

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when I tried platex command, I got some warnings (mentioned those warnings
in the end of this email).  but .dvi showed up in my current working folder.
So I double-cliced .dvi file, warning message box came up saying " Font path
is not set. Install fundamental parameters?". When I clicked Yes button.
Error message box "Cannot resolve Fonts" came up.   And "Illegal Args(1/1)"
window,  I found the following.


Set environment variable TEXPK (Option ->Setup Parameters->Font)

Example: set TEXPK=b:^d\^s.^d;dpi^d^g^s.pk;b:\font\^l.far^g^s;b:^l\^s.pxl
         ^d: dpi number
         ^l: dpi number x 5
         ^s: font name
         ^g: GTH/far file


 I tried .dvi file in different way using "dvipdf my_file.dvi" in cygwin, I
got the following.


$ dvipdf my_file.dvi
dvips: Font ptmr8r not found, characters will be left blank.
dvips: Font ptmr8r not found, characters will be left blank.
dvips: Font ptmbi8r not found, characters will be left blank.
dvips: Font ptmr8r not found, characters will be left blank.
dvips: Font ptmr8r not found, characters will be left blank.
dvips: Font ptmr8r not found, characters will be left blank.
dvips: Font ptmr8r not found, characters will be left blank.
dvips: Font min10 not found, characters will be left blank.
dvips: Can't open font metric file min10.tfm
dvips: I will use cmr10.tfm instead, so expect bad output.
dvips: Checksum mismatch in min10
dvips: ! invalid char 17236 from font min10

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For reference, I included warnings when I compiled tex file in cygwin using
platex command.

$ platex
This is pTeX, Version p2.1.8, based on TeX, Version 3.14159 (SJIS) (Web2C
7.2)
**my_file.tex
(my_file.tex
pLaTeX2e <1998/09/01>+1 (based on LaTeX2e <1998/06/01> patch level 0)
(IEEEtran.cls
Document Class: IEEEtran 2002/11/18 revision V1.6b by Michael Shell
-- See the "IEEEtran_HOWTO" manual for usage information.
-- The source comments contain changelog notes.
(c:/ptex/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/ptm/ot1ptm.fd)
-- This is an 11 point document.
(I search kanjifont definition file: . . )

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `JY1/mc/m/it' undefined
(Font)              using `JY1/mc/m/n' instead on input line 1095.


LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `JT1/mc/m/it' undefined
(Font)              using `JT1/mc/m/n' instead on input line 1095.


LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `JY1/mc/bx/it' undefined
(Font)              using `JY1/mc/bx/n' instead on input line 1095.


LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `JT1/mc/bx/it' undefined
(Font)              using `JT1/mc/bx/n' instead on input line 1095.

) (c:/ptex/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
(c:/ptex/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(c:/ptex/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
(c:/ptex/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
(c:/ptex/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.cfg)
(c:/ptex/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/dvips.def))) (my_file.aux)

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `JY1/mc/m/sc' undefined
(Font)              using `JY1/mc/m/n' instead on input line 17.


LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `JT1/mc/m/sc' undefined
(Font)              using `JT1/mc/m/n' instead on input line 17.

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `JY1/gt/m/it' undefined
(Font)              using `JY1/gt/m/n' instead on input line 132.


LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `JT1/gt/m/it' undefined
(Font)              using `JT1/gt/m/n' instead on input line 132.


Underfull \hbox (badness 7256) in paragraph at lines 131--134
[]\OT1/ptm/m/n/9 ``Introduction to QoS Poli-cies",  \OT1/ptm/m/it/9 White
Pa-pe
r at
[6]
Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 167--170
[]\OT1/ptm/m/n/9 J.  Christophe  Mar-tin, ``Policy-Based Net-works",

** Conference Paper **
Before submitting the final camera ready copy, remember to:

 1. Manually equalize the lengths of two columns on the last page
 of your paper;

 2. Ensure that any PostScript and/or PDF output post-processing
 uses only Type 1 fonts and that every step in the generation
 process uses the US letter (8.5in X 11in) paper size.

[7] (my_file.aux)

LaTeX Font Warning: Some font shapes were not available, defaults
substituted.

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(see the transcript file for additional information)
Output written on my_file.dvi (7 pages, 41088 bytes).
Transcript written on my_file.log.
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