Hello Paul, Comments inline.
On Monday, January 8, 2007, 4:30:09 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Andrew Diederich wrote: >> Hello lyx-users, >> >> I've been trying to install LyX on my work PC (windows xp sp2). >> However, when I launch it I always get this error: >> >> LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! >> >> I've tried the bundle install, the easy install, and the normal >> installer (after the easy install). Does anyone know how to address >> this, or where I can go to find more information? >> > There've been a number of reports of this, and discussions of possible > remedies, which you may be able to find through the list archive on GMANE. > A key question seems to be where your home directory is. If it's on > your C: drive (usually this is C:\Documents and Settings\your name > here\), LyX should work fine with no major tweaks (once we get the > installation problem resolved). If your home is on a remote server > though, and particularly if it is addressed via UNC (\\server\your > name), there may be some additional fiddling needed. (This does not > seem to be entirely consistent -- my office machine lists my home drive > as a remote server, mapped to a letter, and my home share using a UNC, > but LyX installs just fine on it, possibly because the APPDATA and > USERPROFILE variables point to C.) > Assuming that your home is on C:, you can try the following. Open a DOS > window and move to the directory under which you want your LyX home > directory to be written. This is usually C:\Documents and Settings\your > id\Application Data. From there, run > <path to Python>\python.exe <path to LyX>\configure.py > Unless you already have a full copy of Python installed, <path to Python>> should be <path to LyX>\python. > Keep an eye on progress messages to make sure that the installer finds > your LaTeX (MikTeX?) installation. (You do have MikTeX, or some LaTeX > distro, installed, right?) > If that doesn't work, return here for consolation and/or further > suggestions. > /Paul -- Best regards, Andrew Diederich
