Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure script doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to dvi, latex to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before installing LyX and I verified that these converters were present. So right now the View menu is empty, and so is the export menu in LyX. Any ideas on what might be wrong and what I need to do? I don't have much experience w/ LyX on Windows so would appreciate any help... incidentally, I installed this version on my Windows machine a few weeks back and everything went fine. I followed the exact same procedure this time too.. only difference I can think of is that this friend's machine had some previous version of MikTeX installed, which we deleted before installing the latest version...
Thanks, nirmal
Four things to consider:
1. If the user has any other versions of latex installed, make sure that they are either deleted, renamed, or appear after MiKTeX on the system path. (I had one machine where the configure script choked on an old latex.exe that was part of a Cygwin installation.)
2: Does Edit | Reconfigure by any chance write a 0 byte textclass.lst file? If so, it's likely to be due to having the wrong version of sed.exe. Ruurd's port ships with sed 3.02; download the GnuWin32 port of sed (4.0.7 or later) from SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/).
3: Make sure that the two files LaTeXConfig.lyx.in and LyXConfig.lyx.in exist in the .../share/lyx/doc folder. They were missing from my last download of Ruurd's port.
4: Someone reported on the list that Edit->Reconfigure fails if LyX and the user's home directory are on different drives.
-- Paul
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