On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 20:52, Thibaut Cuvelier <tcuvel...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 20:05, José Abílio Matos <jama...@lyx.org> wrote: > >> On Thursday, February 11, 2021 4:02:19 PM WET Yu Jin wrote: >> > Will be pointless imo, it's not the script's fault that python is not >> found. >> > The fault is to be searched in the part of code which adds the prefix >> path >> > to the environment, which part would that be? After all when installing, >> > the installer adds the prefix path to its environment too on runtime >> while >> > installing and then calls the script, it is successful then. >> >> Does Tools->Reconfigure works after adding the python path in the >> environment >> variable? >> >> I expect it to work. If it works that means that the configure.py changes >> are >> not the culprit. >> > > In my case, LyX can reconfigure once its PATH includes Python. > I just checked that the situation is quite weird: in Tools > Preferences > Paths, I have "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64;$LyXDir\bin;$LyXDir\Python;$LyXDir\Python\Lib;$LyXDir\imagemagick;$LyXDir\ghostscript\bin", meaning that LyX should really consider its built-in version of Python, but (re)configure always fails if Python is not in the environment variable PATH does not contain Python before LyX starts.
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