[Tex/LaTex] The required file tex/latex/standalone/standalone.cls is missing after installing MikTex 2.9?

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After installing the MikTex 2.9, Run the code in WinEdt, it always gives warning that The required file tex/latex/standalone/standalone.cls is missing, can someone help me how to fix the problem?

Best Answer

You can active 'Install Packages on the fly' option in MikTeX Settings or use MikTeX Package Manager to download packages.

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[Tex/LaTex] Installing fonts for yhmath on MiKTeX 2.9

Update: The following is obsolete. The missing file OMXyhex.fd was added on MiKTeX update from Dec 5 2012.

Actually I must confess, that “yhmath” works with some issues (see MikTeX 2.9 can not find font yrcmex10 of yhmath package). I also noticed, that on CTAN there are two yhmath.zip! The OP downloaded the other compared to me (link see below), and this is the one used in MiKTeX. So the problem seems to be a bug in yhmath!

I let stand the following for reference reasons.

I would consider the missing font file OMXyhex.fd ~~and the missing whole bunch of MetaFont files as a bug. It should be filed in the~~ MiKTeX bug tracker.

All other files are installed in a full MiKTeX installation. You can get them with the Package Manager. Compared with my TeX Live installation in MiKTeX the type1 file is called yhcmex.pfa, in TeX Live it is yhcmex.pfb, but these are only variants, cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_fonts.

If you downloaded the source files in the ZIP file (link: http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/yhmath.zip), you must extract first into a temporary folder and then execute tex yhmath.inson the command line:

C:\tempfolder\yhmath>tex yhmath.ins

which creates amongst some auxiliary files the font files, optionally followed by latex yhmath.dtx, which creates the documentation.

You could temporarily Create a local texmf tree in MiKTeX and put the virtual font file OMXyhex.fd into the folder <localtexmf>\tex\latex\yhmath. The MetaFont files with extension .mf belong into <localtexmf>\source\latex\yhmath\.

For further action see MikTeX 2.9 can not find font yrcmex10 of yhmath package.

[Tex/LaTex] Trouble installing MiKTeX 2.9 on Windows 10

For some reason the file locations like:

C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\.....

was getting set to "read only" automatically during installation (in my system).

I did the following and it worked.

Temporarily disable the Antivirus (McAfee)
Manually open the folder C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\... Then right click, go to properties and unset the Attribute Read Only. When windows asks, tell it to do it recursively for all the subfolders.

After that the installation runs smoothly and I was able to compile the TeX files (I was using Winedt as the editor).

I am not sure if disabling the antivirus was essential though.