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I understand that to run beamer one needs to install beamer, pgf and xcolor. What are the dependencies (and dependencies of the dependencies, etc) of these three packages? (Im using MikTex 2.8.)

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I would recommend you to update your system to MikTeX 2.9 as soon as possible. – percusse Jul 30 '12 at 7:35
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I believe MikTeX has an option which allows it to install missing packages 'on-the-fly'. Or is this question because you need to create some kind of manifest? – Brent.Longborough Jul 30 '12 at 8:48
The manuals of both beamer and pgf has a section about dependencies, §2.1 and §8.1 respectively. As far as packages go, you've mentioned all of them: beamer needs pgf (v. 1.0) and xcolor (v. 2.0), pgf needs xcolor (v. 2.0). – Torbjørn T. Jul 30 '12 at 12:03
@Brent, yes. The on-the-fly option used to work but now it doesnt (i reformatted by computer). I thought the option would work fine in 2.8 or some earlier version, since it didnt work on 2.9. What I did was to download the missing packages requested by Texnic center, and I believe I have installed at least two other packages aside from beamer, pgf and xcolor so there must be other depedencies (note that I was compiling an file with an empty body and didn't use other packages such as amsthm and amsmath). – Kenjo Jul 31 '12 at 3:10
I understand, and sympathise. Another suggestion (I don't really know if this is available in MikTeX, as I'm a TeXLive user): just install everything! My TexLive tree takes up about 2.5 Gig of hard drive, which isn't very much these days. – Brent.Longborough Jul 31 '12 at 18:55

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