Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
"Paul" == Paul A Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Paul> Hi all, Someone from the user list reported a failed
Paul> installation of 1.4.3 on Windows. From his description, I'm
Paul> pretty sure it was the "official" installer. The bottom line was
Paul> that he had zero-length files in the user home directory
Paul> (presumably the .lst files and preferences), and it was cured by
Paul> running configure.py manually. He believes that the installer
Paul> failed while attempting to download something, because he's
Paul> behind a firewall/proxy combination. His description was that
Paul> the "whole process stopped", leaving the empty configuration
Paul> files.
Would it be this bug?
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2829
It seems likely that's the one. He said a download failed, and I jumped
to the (likely incorrect) conclusion that it was one of the supporting
applications, but it makes more sense that a failed download of a MikTeX
package would be the culprit. I'll share the information with him.
Thanks,
Paul
