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My question is related to this one. I have run mktexlsr from a command prompt as administrator and the operation completed successfully. But when I try to compile the CV into a .pdf the following error is thrown:

    ! LaTeX Error: File `moderncv.cls' not found.

I have already downloaded moderncv into a separate directory. How can I point miktex to it?

The full miktex log is as follows:

    ======================================================================
starting package maintenance...
installation directory: "C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9"
package repository: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/
lightweight database digest: fd7a40a42ed2f1e70be3b6bdb1baccf2
going to download 1177267 bytes
going to install 38 file(s) (1 package(s))
downloading ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/moderncv.tar.lzma...

Unfortunately, the package moderncv could not be installed.Please check the log file:
C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/miktex/log/pdflatex.log
======================================================================

! LaTeX Error: File `moderncv.cls' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: cls)

Enter file name:
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I've managed to fix it. There is a long list of packages needed to be installed before compiling a cv using the moderncv template. All packages can be installed using the miktex package manager which on windows is installed by default in:

C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\mpm_mfc_admin.exe

First, install moderncv. Installing manually is more of a hassle. Upon compiling the CV many additional packages will be required by moderncv. One of them is xparse.sty which can be installed as described here (install packages l3kernel and l3packages). Always make sure that miktex is closed while installing/updating packages. The next package which may raise difficulties is tikz.sty which requires packages pgf and ms. If all goes well, the CV should compile.

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