MiKTeX will become portable

Christian Schenk announced on April 2nd that he’s planning to release a portable MiKTeX edition later this year. The portable edition will allow you to run MiKTeX from a flash drive:

  • you could carry MiKTeX on a portable drive for use on any Windows computer,
  • configuration settings will be stored on the portable drive and not on the host computer,
  • using the portable edition won’t leave traces on the host computer,
  • administrator privileges on the host computer won’t be necessary.

Christian said that a beta will be released soon, on April 6th he has noted that also the package manager will be available with the portable edition and that packages will be on installed on the flash drive.

07. April 2009 by stefan
Categories: LaTeX Distributions, News, TeX Live | 6 comments

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