RE: Lyx 1.3.3 for Windows startup error

[Milos Komarcevic]

Hi Rob,

At 18:14 14/03/2004, you wrote:
Try installing the newer sed from sed.exe direct onto C drive. Ensure
that the GnuWin32 bin directory is in your path.
My path is:

c:\im\imagemagick-5.5.3-q16;C:\GnuWin32\bin;C:\Ghostgum\gsview;C:\WINNT\
system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\system32\WBEM;C:\Tcl\bin;C:\Miktex\texmf\mikt
ex\bin\;C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\AUTODE~1;C:\Adobe\Reader;C:\gs\gs8.00\bin;C
:\Ghostgum\gsview;C:\l2r
For a quick check to see if you are using the newer sed after this:

From within lyx 1.3.3 - reconfigure (1.3.2 you will need to open a cmd
window and cd to c/??/lyx/share/lyx and run configure.bat)
Check the resulting log in the shell window
If it has gone through without an error and also you can now read the
latex configuration file (from lyx help menu) then all is ok.
However, if it after running reconfigure the resulting listing shows
towards the end "unknown option to s" or something along those lines
then it is still using the older (supplied by Ruurd) version of sed.
installing sed with the GnuWin32 setup package and putting it in the
path really does work.
I don't know how this is different to just replacing sed.exe and associated
dll's manually in the lyx/bin directory as that one is added to the path
by Ruurd's configure script anyway, and that results in sed usage errors
as someone already reported on the list.
Thanks for the tip,
Milos 

Re: Lyx 1.3.3 for Windows startup error

[Milos Komarcevic]

Paul,

1.  Open a DOS prompt in the LyX bin directory and type sed --version.  If
it reports version 3.something, go to
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617&package_id=
16429, download sed 4.0.9 (or the latest 4.x release), and install that
version of sed.exe over the one in the bin directory.  Then try running
configure again.
I never got this to work; I replaced sed.exe with newer 4.0.9 and
also added the required libiconv2.dll and libintl3.dll in the lyx bin
directory, but configure fails with usage errors from sed.
Does sed replacement actually work for you (i.e. you're sure cygwin's
sed is not used instead)? Maybe I'm missing something somewhere...
Regards,
Milos   

Re: Lyx 1.3.3 for Windows startup error

[Paul A. Rubin]

Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

>> I am newbie to LyX and I've I just downloaded the LyX port for
>> Windows version 1.3.3
>> I installed also the MiKTeX but when I start lyx I have the following
>> error message
>> "LyX wasn't able to find any layout description !" and exits.
> 
> Do you find .layout files under ~/share/lyx/layouts? If yes, does the 
> file textclass.lst exists in ~/share/lyx? If not then configure LyX 
> under Edit->Reconfigure. If this is not possible, assure that all
> users on your PC have the permission to write in the LyX-folder (and
> in all subfolders).
> 
> (If you use Win98 the configuration of LyX won't work.)
> 

Definitely sounds like the configure script failing.  In addition to the 
above, a few other things to check out:

1.  Open a DOS prompt in the LyX bin directory and type sed --version.  If 
it reports version 3.something, go to 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617&package_id=
16429, download sed 4.0.9 (or the latest 4.x release), and install that 
version of sed.exe over the one in the bin directory.  Then try running 
configure again.

2.  If Edit | Reconfigure still doesn't work (fails to produce a non-empty 
textclass.lst file), open a DOS prompt in your document directory, make 
sure the LyX bin directory is on your application path (type "echo %PATH%" 
to see the path), then type "sh C:/.../share/lyx/configure" (replace the 
ellipsis ... with whatever the path to the LyX share folder is) and see if 
that gets the configure script to run right.

3.  Once the configuration script runs successfully, make sure that LyX is 
using the correct directory as your default document directory, by setting 
this in LyX's preference screen.  (I find it's also a good idea to make 
sure the shortcut you use to start LyX has the LyX bin directory as its 
"Start in:" entry.  In the Target line, you can change "...\lyx.exe" to 
"...\lyx.exe -userdir C:\my_document_directory" (changing that last path, 
obviously) so that LyX starts with your document directory set.

Good luck!

-- Paul

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Re: Lyx 1.3.3 for Windows startup error

[Uwe Stöhr]

I am newbie to LyX and I've I just downloaded the LyX port for Windows
version 1.3.3
I installed also the MiKTeX but when I start lyx I have the following error
message
"LyX wasn't able to find any layout description !" and exits.
Do you find .layout files under ~/share/lyx/layouts? If yes, does the 
file textclass.lst exists in ~/share/lyx? If not then configure LyX 
under Edit->Reconfigure. If this is not possible, assure that all users 
on your PC have the permission to write in the LyX-folder (and in all 
subfolders).

(If you use Win98 the configuration of LyX won't work.)