Can't get Glossaries to work (Beginner)

Question

I'm honestly sorry for my stupid question but i just cannot get glossaries to function. I'm constantly reading that I should execute some sort of pearl script where i need a pearl processor or something.

I'm currently on a Windows 7 Computer with a pretty new and intact MikTeX installation using TeXmaker as Client.

I tried multiple times creating new .tex files and copy & pasting minimal examples but I just cant get it to work

Here's a MWE:

\documentclass[
 fontsize=11pt,
 a4paper,
 pdflatex
 ]{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage{Blindtext}              

\usepackage{glossaries}
\makeglossaries         

\begin{document}

\section{Story of an Apple}
\Blindtext

\section{Story of a Pear}
\Blindtext


\newglossaryentry{apple}{ name=apple, description={it's used as an example fruit}}
\newglossaryentry{pear}{ name=pear, description={it's used as an example fruit}}
\glsaddall


\end{document}

It's sadly not working. Would be really cool if you guys could help me

Also the compiler tells me this:

! LaTeX Error: File `tracklang.sty' not found.

(click here for full log)

I already doublechecked. The File is installed. Also my MikTeX installation isn't older than a month.

Thanks for all your help. I really appreciate it.

Thanks for uploading the MWE. I just copied and compiled it: It runs out of the box on TeXLive 2014 (freeze state april 2015) and Linux — , Jun 10 '15 at 20:01
Welp. Now I know that I did understand it correctly. Maybe I need to redownload tracklang.sty — BlueWizard, Jun 10 '15 at 20:03
Make sure that your package database is up-to-date by using in the package manager (user and admin version) repositories->synchronize. — Ulrike Fischer, Jun 10 '15 at 20:14
Yes. Thats exactly what i did (didnt even know that this thing extsits). Now it compiles and everything is fine. I'll answer the question asn soon as I get this fully working. I currently dont know how to display the glossar. The MWE from above prints both blindtexts but no glossary — BlueWizard, Jun 10 '15 at 20:16
It's still not working. Heres a MWE. Do I need to compile with some specific setting? It outputs no errors and perfectly created a hyperlink at "computer" and "cd" but prints no glossary. Here are my "quick translate" settings. — BlueWizard, Jun 11 '15 at 05:37

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 11 '15 at 12:37

So I ran your MWE (well done, by the way), and you're just missing one line: put it before \end{document}.

\printglossaries

Make sure you're compiling your .tex file; then compiling your glossary with makeglossaries on your .glo file; then compiling our .tex file again. With this process, adding the above line to your MWE printed the glossary just fine. (I also replaced Blindtext with lipsum, because I have the latter and the not the former.)

\documentclass[
 fontsize=11pt,
 a4paper,
 pdflatex
 ]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}              
\usepackage{glossaries}
\makeglossaries         
\begin{document}
\section{Story of an Apple}
\lipsum
\section{Story of a Pear}
\lipsum
\newglossaryentry{apple}{ name=apple, description={it's used as an example fruit}}
\newglossaryentry{pear}{ name=pear, description={it's used as an example fruit}}
\glsaddall
\printglossaries
\end{document}

Can't get Glossaries to work (Beginner)

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