David Hewitt wrote:
I need a little rudimentary help. It's been a while since I did a fresh
install of LyX.
I just tried to install the newest LyX via the LyXWinInstaller on a new
WinXP Pro box and hit a glitch. Everything went just fine until LyX opened
the command window to check configuration before opening the program the
first time (the "this may take a while" part). It carried on but stalled at
checking for document class 'mwrep' for a long, long time. I closed the
window, LyX opened about 10 minutes later (unexpectedly), and I got an error
message. I closed, reopened, ran Configure, closed, and re-opened, and all
looks OK. I feel like I should be concerned that something did not complete
and that I should uninstall and try again.
Dave,
Do you have MikTeX set to automatically download missing classes? I
think a hang at that point is usually MikTeX trying to download mwrep
(or whatever class you're stuck on) and either not getting a 'Net
connection or beating on a server that's on a lunch break. IMHO best
practice is to switch MikTeX to the skip missing classes option before
doing an install or reconfigure.
As far as whether you need to be concerned, I don't think so (assuming
LyX is behaving itself). If in doubt, you can always set MikTeX as
above and reconfigure.
/Paul
