Thanks for your responses – I remember having some problem with a MiKTeX upgrade recently so I can understand that you might have had a problem.
I will wait before trying to install LyX – I will keep an eye on the installation page to see if anything changes. Regards, Peter From: Richard Kimberly Heck Sent: 09 September 2018 17:35 To: Daniel Cc: pptayl...@gmail.com; lyx-users Subject: Re: you say install latest version of MiKTeX before installing LyX -what is the minimal version needed? On 09/09/2018 11:12 AM, Daniel wrote: > On 09/09/2018 03:15, Peter Taylor wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have upgraded MiKTeX relatively recently – I don’t want to upgrade >> again if I don’t have to upgrade – so please could you update your >> webpage which says: >> >> (start quote) >> >> Due to a bug in MiKTeX, installation of LyX 2.3.0 can sometimes cause >> the MiKTeX installation to be corrupted. (See >> https://github.com/MiKTeX/miktex/issues/82.) If you run into >> problems, the solution will be to uninstall MiKTeX and then re-install. >> >> We highly recommend that MiKTeX users update to the latest version >> *before* installing LyX 2.3.0. If you have any questions about how to >> update MiKTeX, you can email lyx-users@lists.lyx.org for help. (You >> do not need to be subscribed to the mailing list to do so, but you >> may wish to do that anyway. See this page >> <https://www.lyx.org/MailingLists#toc2> for information on subscribing.) >> >> (end quote) >> >> This information does not mention specific versions – just says >> “latest version of MiKTeX”. My MiKTeX console window tells me it is >> version 2.9.6751. >> >> I am actually using another TeX editor which works fine for me but I >> want to collaborate with a colleague and I heard that LyX might be an >> easier editor for him to use on shared documents. Before doing that I >> want to check that LyX is something I can recommend to him. >> >> However seeing this message on your website has made me reluctant to >> try out LyX in case my MiKTeX installation gets corrupted. >> >> Regards, >> >> Peter >> >> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for >> Windows 10 >> > > I might be wrong, but I think that from official installer 2.3.0 > onwards LyX is not making any upgrades to MiKTeX on its own any more. > So, in the worst case LyX will not work but everything else should > still do. So, you could just give it a shot without upgrading MiKTeX > and see whether it works. For some reason, Uwe had the installer run something like: mpm.exe --verbose --update-db just prior to LyX configuration and then install a bunch of packages, all without asking or even informing the user. I'm still working on undoing that and will probably release an updated installer, which is a bit more streamlined, before too long. So Peter, you may want to wait for that. Riki
