Comments on: MiKTeX will become portable

By: Stefan Kottwitz

Stefan Kottwitz — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:01:03 +0000

It’s been released - have a look here.

By: Stefan Kottwitz

Stefan Kottwitz — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:10:42 +0000

Hi Alexander, hi Dan,

the links provided by you are showing that there’s a need for a portable solution. If the MiKTeX programmer would provide it directly that would be great. I’m sure that he can benefit from the work of the other people trying to make MiKTeX portable themselves.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:19:50 +0000

I’ve been using one for a couple of years. One version is here http://elwito.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/portable-latex-environment-2/

However, if MikTeX provide it, it’d be a great news.

@Memming: To avoid long copying time, what I do is zipping the whole directory. Every time I work on a computer, I just copy the zipped file to its desktop, unzip it, and here we go.

By: Stefan Kottwitz

Stefan Kottwitz — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:20:49 +0000

Hi Memming,

I’m happy about those news too, because now I can expect an easy solution instead of building it myself. Unfortunately a LaTeX distribution contains a lot of small files, and the speed depends on a file system that’s effective, caching and of course on the port speed.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:09:48 +0000

I have been running MiKTeX from a Flash drive for about 3 years now. If you want to know how to make MiKTeX portable (including the package manager) you may continue reading here:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/MiKTeX+Ghostscript+GSview+USB-drive-HOWTO.txt

By: Memming

Memming — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:55:15 +0000

That’s a good news! (Except for the fact that coping many small files to a flash drive takes a lot of time. I wonder if one can avoid it.)