<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hello,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This is my first exposure to Tex. I am excited to learn and try to create some documents on my own. However the installation process has had an error or two in it. I downloaded ProTex from the following link.</font></div>

<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/CTAN/systems/windows/protext/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/CTAN/systems/windows/protext/</font></a></div>

<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I chose the file &quot;</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><a href="http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/CTAN/systems/windows/protext/ProTeXt-2.2.1-102109.exe"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">ProTeXt-2.2.1-102109.exe</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">.&quot; No surprises there.</font></span></div>

<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I open the setup file. I read through it twice. I follow the installation process. I chose the basic package.</font></span></div>

<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Miktek is installing and then I get an error. Ok, let&#39;s try it again with the complete package: a different error this time.</font></span></div>

<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The errors were:</font></span></div>

<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; "><div>

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">

<blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">&quot;The operation could not be completed for the following reasoin:</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>

</font><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>

</font></span><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Windows API error 2: The system cannot find the file specified.</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>

</font><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>

</font></span><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Details : C:\Program Files\Miktex 2.8\tpm\packages\miktex_freetype2-bin-2.8.tpm&quot;&quot;</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>

</font><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>

</font></span><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">&quot;The operation could not be completed for the following reasoin:</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>

</font><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>

</font></span><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Windows API error 2: The system cannot find the file specified.</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>

</font><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>

</font></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Details : C:\Program Files\Miktex 2.8\tpm\packages\animate.tpm&quot;</font></span></div>

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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal; font-size: small; "><div>

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Did I download a faulty copy? Is the solution here to get another download?</font></span></div><div>

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">-Joe</font></span></div>

<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>

</font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">P.S. I created a different directory \...2.8.xo, then I ran the download a third time. I received a new error. xo</font></span></div>

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