Gah, no read-receipts please! -Are you running the lyx version compiled with qt-noncommercial? -if you type "latex" into a command prompt, does it run latex?
Steven -----Original Message----- From: Srinivas Nedunuri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 8:57 PM To: Steven Ning; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Problem w/ Windows install: no layout description Yes I do. It initially asked me about installing MikTeX and wanted to know the name of the local package it was located in (or something like that). I gave it the location of my MixTex install (as well as the local folder) but it didn't like either one, so I just had it skip that step ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Ning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 10:36 PM Subject: RE: Problem w/ Windows install: no layout description > > Do you have miktex installed? > > Steven > > -----Original Message----- > From: Srinivas Nedunuri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 7:52 PM > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Subject: Problem w/ Windows install: no layout description > > I installed the Windows version of Lyx on my machine. However, when I try to > start up Lyx, I get an error message that says "lyx wasn't able to find any > layout description... Check the contents of the file "textclass.lst"". I > looked at textclass.lst in .../lyx/share/lyx but I really have no idea what > I'm looking for. > > (Also, when I first started up Lyx, and tried to install the ieeetrans > package from the internet, the program started thrashing the disk and > eventually just died. The above is the mssage I get when I subsequently > start it up again) > > thanks
