General ⇒ Having trouble getting LaTeX onto my PC

[ca85]

Hi guys,

I apologise for my sheer and utter imcompetence, but I can't get LaTeX onto my laptop.

I am following these guidelines: http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/LaTe ... nloads.php

When I open TeXnicCenter and it asks me for the "full path of the directory where the executables" are located, and I give it C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5\miktex\bin - it comes up with an error message, even though I haven't changed the original destination when I downloaded MiKTeX.

Any ideas? I know it's probably very trivial, but you would make me a very happy man if I could finally sort this out...

Thanks in advance

[ca85]

Anyone?

[ca85]

So no one here has any idea what's going on?

[localghost]

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When I open TeXnicCenter and it asks me for the "full path of the directory where the executables" are located, and I give it C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5\miktex\bin - it comes up with an error message, even though I haven't changed the original destination when I downloaded MiKTeX.

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And did you also install MiKTeX? And what version did you use? There is the Basic MiKTeX Installer and the MiKTEX Net Installer. So please describe in detail what you have done so far. Since the path of MiKTeX has changed from 2.4 to 2.5, TeXnicCenter does not recognize it anymore. The above given path misses latex.exe to get it work.

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C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5\miktex\bin\latex.exe

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