Re: Fwd: installing lyx on windows 7

2011-02-14 Thread saras
Joost Verburg lyx.org> writes: > > On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:32:24 -0600, Saras Saraswathi wrote: > >>> I tried to install the lyx. I installed under windows 7 on two laptops. > >>> One works ( a borrowed laptop) ...discussed on the webpage, > > According to the screenshots, one of th

Re: Fwd: installing lyx on windows 7

2011-02-14 Thread Joost Verburg
On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:32:24 -0600, Saras Saraswathi wrote: >>> I tried to install the lyx. I installed under windows 7 on two laptops. >>> One works ( a borrowed laptop) . But it does not work on my own laptop. I >>> used the same downloaded sw on both. As discussed on the webpage, looks like >>>

RE: problems installing lyx on windows vista

2007-02-07 Thread Tino Langer
The MiKTeX shipped with the last installer is not Vista-ready. The next LyX version comes out next week with an updated MiKTeX version. Note that there are stil some restrictions to use MiKTeX under Vista: http://dojo.miktex.org/blogs/christian_schenk/archive/2007/01/22/miktex25vis ta.aspx ok - s

Re: problems installing lyx on windows vista

2007-02-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tino Langer schrieb: I just tried to install lyx on my windows vista. The first problem was to install miketex out of the bundle-installer of lyx 1.4.3-5 (lyx-143-5-bundle.exe ) - an Windows API error occurs. a workaround for this problem was to install miktex 2.5 stand alone and refer to the

problems installing lyx on windows vista

2007-02-07 Thread Tino Langer
Hello, I just tried to install lyx on my windows vista. The first problem was to install miketex out of the bundle-installer of lyx 1.4.3-5 (lyx-143-5-bundle.exe ) - an Windows API error occurs. a workaround for this problem was to install miktex 2.5 stand alone and refer to the existing inst

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-03 Thread Stephen Harris
Eric Inazaki wrote: Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On 8/2/06, Eric Inazaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in "C:\Program Files" directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. This happened to me on my first installatio

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Bo Peng
> Right after I installed lyx, it spent a lot of time downloading stuff. Lyx is checking for some classes, miktex does not have them so it installs them automatically. 1.4.3 will give you more prompt information, but this process will take the same long time. Windows being Windows, the most I

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eric Inazaki wrote: Did it give you a message about not finding class files? There have been instances where LyX installed properly but the configuration script failed, and subsequently LyX would not start because it could not find the requisite configuration information. (But it would at lea

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Eric Inazaki
Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 8/2/06, Eric Inazaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in > > "C:\Program Files" directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and > > Windows 2000, by the way. This happened to me on my first > > installation a

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Eric Inazaki
Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Eric Inazaki wrote: > > Did it give you a message about not finding class files? There have > been instances where LyX installed properly but the configuration script > failed, and subsequently LyX would not start because it could not find > the

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Bo Peng
On 8/2/06, Eric Inazaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in "C:\Program Files" directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. This happened to me on my first installation attempt. I tried reinstalling to "C:\" and that works ok

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eric Inazaki wrote: Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in "C:\Program Files" directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. No, it works fine from C:\Program Files\... This happened to me on my first installation attempt. I tried reinstalling to "C:\" a

installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Eric Inazaki
Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in "C:\Program Files" directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. This happened to me on my first installation attempt. I tried reinstalling to "C:\" and that works okay. Looking through some of these older messages, it

Re: Installing Lyx on Windows: pb with Python (or msys?)

2005-11-16 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 22:44, mel b wrote: > and the message is an ImportError for the os module. This is an indication that something is wrong with your python installation. I am not saying that this is the only problem or the cause of the others, but this should not happen in a normal

Installing Lyx on Windows: pb with Python (or msys?)

2005-11-16 Thread mel b
Hi all, I am using lyx for a while on windows, and decided today to try the new, supported ! , windows version. I uninstalled my lyx version the best I could, and followed the instructions on the Lyx Wiki. Everything seemed fine until I launch lyx. Then, while lyx was configuring, just after the

Re: problem installing Lyx on Windows XP

2002-02-09 Thread David Case
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: > > I setup Windows XP on my computer (clean install) and so had to setup Lyx > again. However, when I try starting the Cygwin setup program from the > LyxInstall directory, it goes till the root directory (C:/cygwin) question > and then the local

problem installing Lyx on Windows XP

2002-02-09 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi, I setup Windows XP on my computer (clean install) and so had to setup Lyx again. However, when I try starting the Cygwin setup program from the LyxInstall directory, it goes till the root directory (C:/cygwin) question and then the local package directory (C:/LyxInstall) and then crashes and I