In MiKTeX 2.9 Package manager, when I'm trying to synchronize it writes me a message: "The remote package repository is not online…", but I'know server is online (I can use FTP to download packages manualy). When I'm trying to change repository it shows me empty list. Like that:
What can I do to fix this without manual downloading packages from repo?
Best Answer
Sometimes the miktex maintainer disables the main server with the list of repositories e.g. when a serious bug has appeared to avoid that people download a broken package. Sometimes the main server is simply down.
In both cases the best is to wait and to check if there are messages on the miktex website or the miktex mailing list.
If you badly need a package you can download it from CTAN from the miktex package folder (http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/) along with the "package databases" (two miktex-zz-XXX-files). Put everything in some empty folder and use it as local repository.