Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> One cannot argue against the virtue of fixing the installer, but there 
> are other times when running it manually might be necessary.  Sometimes 
> a working copy of LyX stops working because some malign external force 
> deleted/damaged the configuration files.  If LyX will not start, you 
> cannot reconfigure from within, so your only options are to run the 
> script manually or reinstall.  My vote is to run manually.

http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2358 
is a example of such a situation IMHO (that was on  Solaris, solved
by renaming the personal dir, reinstall is not needed).

-- 
Jean-Pierre


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