Hi Folks, Just installed Lyx yesterday on Windows, and, since I had a bit of trouble getting it to run, I thought I would post a quick report of what got it working.
I installed using the "network bundle" at first, but constantly got a problem with Lyx refusing to start: the now quite famous "textclasses not found" problem. More precisely, the programs refuses to start and prints this as the error: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! This was obviously something to do with the Tex installation: although I installed MikTex as part of the bundle, Lyx was somehow not finding it. As it started, it tried to download missing textclasses but then bombed out with an error. However, after reading an earlier comment on the Lyx list, I found that installing MikText separately seemed to do the trick. So, this means: -- Install MikTex (from the site, www.miktex.org). I used the "basic" version. -- Install Lyx Run Lyx: works fine. Hope this helps someone to get started with the tool in Windows. (Note: some other posters have suggested running the "configure.py" script located in the Lyx directory, under the subdirectory "Resources". This did NOT work for me: the configure script tried to load the (what it thought were) missing Tex classes and crashed whilst doing so with the above message.) Oh, I'm using Win XP with SP 2, and running Lyx 1.4.3-5. Cheers, Ed Bradburn -- Edward Bradburn | Technical Editor CoreMedia | Ludwig-Erhard-Str. 18, 20459 Hamburg, Germany Tel +49 40.325587.535 | Fax +49.40.325587.999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.coremedia.com ------------------------------------------------------- Any Content, Anywhere, in a Trusted Universe: CoreMedia CMS and CoreMedia DRM -------------------------------------------------------
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