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Is it possible to enable the option install packages on the fly from the command line, i.e. without interacting with the npm gui?

This would be useful for setting up miktex on CI services such as appveyor.

Quant
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    I think that is the default behavior of MikTeX. Maybe you have to have write permissions for it to work. Which system are you in? Windows? – alfC Sep 04 '17 at 09:10
  • The default behavior seems to be "Ask me first", which triggers a graphical prompt to confirm installation. This cannot work with appveyor. – Quant Sep 04 '17 at 10:06

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You can achieve this by setting the [MPM]AutoInstall value:

initexmf --set-config-value [MPM]AutoInstall=1

1 means: install without asking the user. Other possiblie values are:

  • 0: turn off automatic installation
  • 2: ask the user
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