MiKTeX savesym package not found

Question

Using MiKTeX 2.9 package manager (mpm.exe) I try to install savesym.sty. It is listed in the mpm window, I can right click it and choose 'Install'. But when mpm tries to install it aborts with a "not found" error:

package repository: http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/
lightweight database digest: b412617853dd68b9a7087203775787c7
going to download 1311 bytes
going to install 2 file(s) (1 package(s))
downloading http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/savesym.cab...

And then a dialog pops up simply saying

Error response from server: 404

Following that link to the repository, the file does indeed not seem to exist. So how can I solve this problem?

And it is not an administrator rights problem. I can install and use other packages using mpm.

Answer 1

Looking into http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/ I see there is savesym archived as savesym.tar.lzma, but according to your log file the (older) CAB version was requested. For the reason I can only guess, that this mirror was not up to date some days ago (it is now).

So some general hints:

• You can check whether your selected mirror is (officially) up to date on MiKTeX Package Repositories.

• On each update a file mpm.ini is updated first. This can also be found in archive miktex-zzdb1-2.9.tar.lzma on each mirror. For savesym you can among other entries read there:

  [savesym]
  Type=TarLzma
  

  So, if you’d get this error message again, you could check, if there would be a inconsistency.