Re: Fwd: installing lyx on windows 7
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 it cannot do the configuration on start up. With very much difficulty I got a screen print of the error ( tried it about a 100 times to be fast enough to capture the screen!).. I do not see any ../resources directory in the place specified. According to the screenshots, one of the installations (the one that works) was installed using the standard installer and the other one was installed using the alternative installer. Reinstalling using the standard installer will probably solve your problem. Joost
Re: Fwd: installing lyx on windows 7
Joost Verburg joost at 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 the installations (the one that works) was installed using the standard installer and the other one was installed using the alternative installer. Reinstalling using the standard installer will probably solve your problem. Joost Hello Joost, Thank you for your reply. I will try the standard installer after my laptop becomes operational. It will take some time to fix it since it has to be sent to Singapore and I plan to do it only in when I go there. Right now, the laptop fan does not work and there is a risk of burning the disk/cpu. I think I did try the standard installer and it may not have worked. But I cannot confirm this. I remember installing different versions though. Saras
Re: Fwd: installing lyx on windows 7
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 it cannot do the configuration on start up. With very much difficulty I got a screen print of the error ( tried it about a 100 times to be fast enough to capture the screen!).. I do not see any ../resources directory in the place specified. According to the screenshots, one of the installations (the one that works) was installed using the standard installer and the other one was installed using the alternative installer. Reinstalling using the standard installer will probably solve your problem. Joost
Re: Fwd: installing lyx on windows 7
Joost Verburg joost at 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 the installations (the one that works) was installed using the standard installer and the other one was installed using the alternative installer. Reinstalling using the standard installer will probably solve your problem. Joost Hello Joost, Thank you for your reply. I will try the standard installer after my laptop becomes operational. It will take some time to fix it since it has to be sent to Singapore and I plan to do it only in when I go there. Right now, the laptop fan does not work and there is a risk of burning the disk/cpu. I think I did try the standard installer and it may not have worked. But I cannot confirm this. I remember installing different versions though. Saras
Re: Fwd: installing lyx on windows 7
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 >>> it cannot do the configuration on start up. With very much difficulty I got >>> a screen print of the error ( tried it about a 100 times to be fast enough >>> to capture the screen!).. I do not see any ../resources directory in the >>> place specified. According to the screenshots, one of the installations (the one that works) was installed using the standard installer and the other one was installed using the alternative installer. Reinstalling using the standard installer will probably solve your problem. Joost
Re: Fwd: installing lyx on windows 7
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 the installations (the one that works) > was installed using the standard installer and the other one was installed > using the alternative installer. Reinstalling using the standard installer > will probably solve your problem. > > Joost > > Hello Joost, Thank you for your reply. I will try the standard installer after my laptop becomes operational. It will take some time to fix it since it has to be sent to Singapore and I plan to do it only in when I go there. Right now, the laptop fan does not work and there is a risk of burning the disk/cpu. I think I did try the standard installer and it may not have worked. But I cannot confirm this. I remember installing different versions though. Saras
problems installing lyx on windows vista
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 installation while installing lyx. But the second problem ist, that I can not start lyx. It seems to be there is no python available. But I thought this application comes with lyx? Are there any howtos out there how to install lyx on Windows Vista? many thanks - Tino -- Gäbe es kein Wasser auf der Welt, könnten die Menschen nicht schwimmen lernen und müssten alle ertrinken...
Re: problems installing lyx on windows vista
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 existing installation while installing lyx. 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/miktex25vista.aspx But the second problem ist, that I can not start lyx. It seems to be there is no python available. But I thought this application comes with lyx? Don't you have a python.exe in LyX's \bin directory or somewhere else on your computer? regards Uwe
RE: problems installing lyx on windows vista
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 - so I will wait - this is no problem :-) But the second problem ist, that I can not start lyx. It seems to be there is no python available. But I thought this application comes with lyx? Don't you have a python.exe in LyX's \bin directory or somewhere else on your computer? No - I looked into the bin directory an found no python.exe file and I was wondering Nice day - TIno
problems installing lyx on windows vista
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 installation while installing lyx. But the second problem ist, that I can not start lyx. It seems to be there is no python available. But I thought this application comes with lyx? Are there any howtos out there how to install lyx on Windows Vista? many thanks - Tino -- Gäbe es kein Wasser auf der Welt, könnten die Menschen nicht schwimmen lernen und müssten alle ertrinken...
Re: problems installing lyx on windows vista
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 existing installation while installing lyx. 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/miktex25vista.aspx But the second problem ist, that I can not start lyx. It seems to be there is no python available. But I thought this application comes with lyx? Don't you have a python.exe in LyX's \bin directory or somewhere else on your computer? regards Uwe
RE: problems installing lyx on windows vista
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 - so I will wait - this is no problem :-) But the second problem ist, that I can not start lyx. It seems to be there is no python available. But I thought this application comes with lyx? Don't you have a python.exe in LyX's \bin directory or somewhere else on your computer? No - I looked into the bin directory an found no python.exe file and I was wondering Nice day - TIno
problems installing lyx on windows vista
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 installation while installing lyx. But the second problem ist, that I can not start lyx. It seems to be there is no python available. But I thought this application comes with lyx? Are there any howtos out there how to install lyx on Windows Vista? many thanks - Tino -- Gäbe es kein Wasser auf der Welt, könnten die Menschen nicht schwimmen lernen und müssten alle ertrinken...
Re: problems installing lyx on windows vista
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 existing installation while installing lyx. 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/miktex25vista.aspx But the second problem ist, that I can not start lyx. It seems to be there is no python available. But I thought this application comes with lyx? Don't you have a python.exe in LyX's \bin directory or somewhere else on your computer? regards Uwe
RE: problems installing lyx on windows vista
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 - so I will wait - this is no problem :-) > But the second problem ist, that I can not start lyx. It seems to be > there is no python available. But I thought this application comes with > lyx? Don't you have a python.exe in LyX's \bin directory or somewhere else on your computer? No - I looked into the bin directory an found no python.exe file and I was wondering Nice day - TIno
Missing textclass problem while installing LyX under Windows hopefully fixed
Hello LyXers, in the last weeks many users had the problem that after installing LyX on Windows, LyX couldn't be started, only the error message Missing textclass.lst is displayed. There was a bug in MIKTeX so that LyX's configuration script wasn't correctly finished when no internet connection was opened to install missing LaTeX-packages. This is now fixed in the latest MiKTeX version 2.5.2580. You can update your MiKTeX installation using MiKTeX's update manager which is accessible in the Start menu under Programs - MiKTeX 2.5. For new installations the next LyXWinInstaller version has the new MiKTeX version bundled. For existing installations the installer asks you to update MiKTeX before you start LyX the first time. Use this option and MiKTeX's update manager will be started by the installer. For explanation: LyX needs some LaTeX-packages for some of its features that are not delivered in the basic installation of MiKTeX. You can use LyX without having these packages installed but then you cannot use all LyX features. If you want to have all packages needed by LyX installed, install LyX while you have an open internet connection or open later an internet connection and reconfigure LyX. regards Uwe
Missing textclass problem while installing LyX under Windows hopefully fixed
Hello LyXers, in the last weeks many users had the problem that after installing LyX on Windows, LyX couldn't be started, only the error message Missing textclass.lst is displayed. There was a bug in MIKTeX so that LyX's configuration script wasn't correctly finished when no internet connection was opened to install missing LaTeX-packages. This is now fixed in the latest MiKTeX version 2.5.2580. You can update your MiKTeX installation using MiKTeX's update manager which is accessible in the Start menu under Programs - MiKTeX 2.5. For new installations the next LyXWinInstaller version has the new MiKTeX version bundled. For existing installations the installer asks you to update MiKTeX before you start LyX the first time. Use this option and MiKTeX's update manager will be started by the installer. For explanation: LyX needs some LaTeX-packages for some of its features that are not delivered in the basic installation of MiKTeX. You can use LyX without having these packages installed but then you cannot use all LyX features. If you want to have all packages needed by LyX installed, install LyX while you have an open internet connection or open later an internet connection and reconfigure LyX. regards Uwe
Missing textclass problem while installing LyX under Windows hopefully fixed
Hello LyXers, in the last weeks many users had the problem that after installing LyX on Windows, LyX couldn't be started, only the error message "Missing textclass.lst" is displayed. There was a bug in MIKTeX so that LyX's configuration script wasn't correctly finished when no internet connection was opened to install missing LaTeX-packages. This is now fixed in the latest MiKTeX version 2.5.2580. You can update your MiKTeX installation using MiKTeX's update manager which is accessible in the Start menu under Programs -> MiKTeX 2.5. For new installations the next LyXWinInstaller version has the new MiKTeX version bundled. For existing installations the installer asks you to update MiKTeX before you start LyX the first time. Use this option and MiKTeX's update manager will be started by the installer. For explanation: LyX needs some LaTeX-packages for some of its features that are not delivered in the basic installation of MiKTeX. You can use LyX without having these packages installed but then you cannot use all LyX features. If you want to have all packages needed by LyX installed, install LyX while you have an open internet connection or open later an internet connection and reconfigure LyX. regards Uwe
Re: installing lyx on windows
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 installation attempt. I tried reinstalling to C:\ and that works okay. Looking through some of these older messages, it seems that some folks don't have a problem installing to Program Files. If that's true, then what gives? Due to the anti-space nature of latex, it is safer to install lyx under a path without space. However, the developers have tried their best to let lyx works as *usual* (?) under windows. As a result, lyx 1.4.2 should work under c:\program files. If lyx can not start under your machines, it should be investigated. So, what exactly happened when you start lyx when it is installed under c:\program files? Bo I launch lyx from the Start/Program menu, a command window appears then disappears a split second later and that's it. No alert dialog, no nothing. As far a I'm concerned, lyx doesn't _have to_ be installed in program files. Installing it in c:\ is okay. Would've been nice to have had a heads-up is all. It's starting to sound like I might have done something screwy. Bet if I tried again from scratch I won't see this problem. eric Eric: A suggestion, if lyx really does have a problem being installed in Program Files then it'd be nice if that fact were well publicized (I found no mention of it on the lyx homepage, nor on the wiki). Also, when I did it, the default installation directory was C:\Program Files, this should probably be changed. SH: Installation and the path with spaces problem is mentioned on the Wiki, but you have to know where to look, but just searching for installation is going to produce over 60 hits and the new user isn't likely to know the paths with spaces keyword phrase. http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX14?n=LyX.NewInLyX14action=searchq=installation#toc5http: lists the 2/60+ articles which mention installation and paths with spaces but how is the new user to know to choose them? The answer is an index with: Installation, see Paths with spaces; Paths with spaces, see Installation and a pointer in the FAQ to look at the Index. Methods like establishing layout files for LyX after adding .cls files would be in cross-referenced in the index and make new users aware of it. A search engine doesn't take the place of a well-designed index because the search engine doesn't inform one of the keyword used to describe the concept or provide a hint for related issues without reading a lot of documentation. I think a lot of stuff is present in the Wiki, just hard to find. Hooray for a source condensed information (milk of wisdom), Stephen - http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136 Ekkehart Schlicht: Although LyX swallows path and folder names with blanks (such as C:\Program Files\...) this is not necessarily true for the other programs, and it is recommended to install them in the default locations suggested by the programs, or in paths without blanks (such as C:\Programs\...), just to be on the safe side. --- http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/InstallationTipsForLyXWithAnAlternativeLaTeXDistribution It is good practice for LyX and its associated programs to be included in the Windows Path statement, whichever Latex distribution you are using. Choosing directories without spaces in them like C:\LyX rather than the default, C:\Program files\LyX is likely still the safer practice, unless the installer balks at changing the default and the install fails. --
Re: installing lyx on windows
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 installation attempt. I tried reinstalling to C:\ and that works okay. Looking through some of these older messages, it seems that some folks don't have a problem installing to Program Files. If that's true, then what gives? Due to the anti-space nature of latex, it is safer to install lyx under a path without space. However, the developers have tried their best to let lyx works as *usual* (?) under windows. As a result, lyx 1.4.2 should work under c:\program files. If lyx can not start under your machines, it should be investigated. So, what exactly happened when you start lyx when it is installed under c:\program files? Bo I launch lyx from the Start/Program menu, a command window appears then disappears a split second later and that's it. No alert dialog, no nothing. As far a I'm concerned, lyx doesn't _have to_ be installed in program files. Installing it in c:\ is okay. Would've been nice to have had a heads-up is all. It's starting to sound like I might have done something screwy. Bet if I tried again from scratch I won't see this problem. eric Eric: A suggestion, if lyx really does have a problem being installed in Program Files then it'd be nice if that fact were well publicized (I found no mention of it on the lyx homepage, nor on the wiki). Also, when I did it, the default installation directory was C:\Program Files, this should probably be changed. SH: Installation and the path with spaces problem is mentioned on the Wiki, but you have to know where to look, but just searching for installation is going to produce over 60 hits and the new user isn't likely to know the paths with spaces keyword phrase. http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX14?n=LyX.NewInLyX14action=searchq=installation#toc5http: lists the 2/60+ articles which mention installation and paths with spaces but how is the new user to know to choose them? The answer is an index with: Installation, see Paths with spaces; Paths with spaces, see Installation and a pointer in the FAQ to look at the Index. Methods like establishing layout files for LyX after adding .cls files would be in cross-referenced in the index and make new users aware of it. A search engine doesn't take the place of a well-designed index because the search engine doesn't inform one of the keyword used to describe the concept or provide a hint for related issues without reading a lot of documentation. I think a lot of stuff is present in the Wiki, just hard to find. Hooray for a source condensed information (milk of wisdom), Stephen - http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136 Ekkehart Schlicht: Although LyX swallows path and folder names with blanks (such as C:\Program Files\...) this is not necessarily true for the other programs, and it is recommended to install them in the default locations suggested by the programs, or in paths without blanks (such as C:\Programs\...), just to be on the safe side. --- http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/InstallationTipsForLyXWithAnAlternativeLaTeXDistribution It is good practice for LyX and its associated programs to be included in the Windows Path statement, whichever Latex distribution you are using. Choosing directories without spaces in them like C:\LyX rather than the default, C:\Program files\LyX is likely still the safer practice, unless the installer balks at changing the default and the install fails. --
Re: installing lyx on windows
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 installation attempt. I tried reinstalling to "C:\" and that works okay. Looking through some of these older messages, it seems that some folks don't have a problem installing to "Program Files". If that's true, then what gives? Due to the anti-space nature of latex, it is safer to install lyx under a path without space. However, the developers have tried their best to let lyx works as *usual* (?) under windows. As a result, lyx 1.4.2 should work under c:\program files. If lyx can not start under your machines, it should be investigated. So, what exactly happened when you start lyx when it is installed under c:\program files? Bo I launch lyx from the Start/Program menu, a command window appears then disappears a split second later and that's it. No alert dialog, no nothing. As far a I'm concerned, lyx doesn't _have to_ be installed in "program files". Installing it in "c:\" is okay. Would've been nice to have had a heads-up is all. It's starting to sound like I might have done something screwy. Bet if I tried again from scratch I won't see this problem. eric Eric: A suggestion, if lyx really does have a problem being installed in > > "Program Files" then it'd be nice if that fact were well publicized > > (I found no mention of it on the lyx homepage, nor on the wiki). > > Also, when I did it, the default installation directory was > > "C:\Program Files", this should probably be changed. SH: Installation and the path with spaces problem is mentioned on the Wiki, but you have to know where to look, but just searching for installation is going to produce over 60 hits and the new user isn't likely to know the "paths with spaces" keyword phrase. http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX14?n=LyX.NewInLyX14=search=installation#toc5http: lists the 2/60+ articles which mention installation and paths with spaces but how is the new user to know to choose them? The answer is an index with: Installation, see Paths with spaces; Paths with spaces, see Installation and a pointer in the FAQ to look at the Index. Methods like establishing layout files for LyX after adding .cls files would be in cross-referenced in the index and make new users aware of it. A search engine doesn't take the place of a well-designed index because the search engine doesn't inform one of the keyword used to describe the concept or provide a hint for related issues without reading a lot of documentation. I think a lot of stuff is present in the Wiki, just hard to find. Hooray for a source condensed information (milk of wisdom), Stephen - http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136 Ekkehart Schlicht: "Although LyX swallows path and folder names with blanks (such as C:\Program Files\...) this is not necessarily true for the other programs, and it is recommended to install them in the default locations suggested by the programs, or in paths without blanks (such as C:\Programs\...), just to be on the safe side." --- http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/InstallationTipsForLyXWithAnAlternativeLaTeXDistribution "It is good practice for LyX and its associated programs to be included in the Windows Path statement, whichever Latex distribution you are using. Choosing directories without spaces in them like C:\LyX rather than the default, C:\Program files\LyX is likely still the safer practice, unless the installer balks at changing the default and the install fails." --
installing lyx on windows
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 seems that some folks don't have a problem installing to Program Files. If that's true, then what gives? A suggestion, if lyx really does have a problem being installed in Program Files then it'd be nice if that fact were well publicized (I found no mention of it on the lyx homepage, nor on the wiki). Also, when I did it, the default installation directory was C:\Program Files, this should probably be changed. regards, eric
Re: installing lyx on windows
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:\ and that works okay. Looking through some of these older messages, it seems that some folks don't have a problem installing to Program Files. If that's true, then what gives? 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 least display the GUI and cough up a message to that effect.) A suggestion, if lyx really does have a problem being installed in Program Files then it'd be nice if that fact were well publicized (I found no mention of it on the lyx homepage, nor on the wiki). Also, when I did it, the default installation directory was C:\Program Files, this should probably be changed. Really? On my systems, I think it defaulted to C:\Program Files\lyx14 (not positive, since I changed from the default). By the way, were you logged in with administrator permissions when you attempted the installation? /Paul
Re: installing lyx on windows
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 okay. Looking through some of these older messages, it seems that some folks don't have a problem installing to Program Files. If that's true, then what gives? Due to the anti-space nature of latex, it is safer to install lyx under a path without space. However, the developers have tried their best to let lyx works as *usual* (?) under windows. As a result, lyx 1.4.2 should work under c:\program files. If lyx can not start under your machines, it should be investigated. So, what exactly happened when you start lyx when it is installed under c:\program files? Bo
Re: installing lyx on windows
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 requisite configuration information. (But it would at least display the GUI and cough up a message to that effect.) Right after I installed lyx, it spent a lot of time downloading stuff. They looked like template files, might have class files, I wasn't paying that close attention. And it may or may not have been lyx that was doing the downloading, could've been MikTeX which I installed at about the same time. (The dialog boxes didn't say what program they were affiliated with). After all that was done (as near as I could tell), I would go to Start- Programs and click on lyx then a command window would pop up for about a half-second, disappear and that's all she wrote. A suggestion, if lyx really does have a problem being installed in Program Files then it'd be nice if that fact were well publicized (I found no mention of it on the lyx homepage, nor on the wiki). Also, when I did it, the default installation directory was C:\Program Files, this should probably be changed. Really? On my systems, I think it defaulted to C:\Program Files\lyx14 (not positive, since I changed from the default). By the way, were you logged in with administrator permissions when you attempted the installation? Well, yeah okay C:\Program Files\lyxsomething-or-other. And yes, I did this as the admin. So you're saying that you could install and run lyx at the Program Files directory, out of the box, with no problems and without having to futz around with anything? eric
Re: installing lyx on windows
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 attempt. I tried reinstalling to C:\ and that works okay. Looking through some of these older messages, it seems that some folks don't have a problem installing to Program Files. If that's true, then what gives? Due to the anti-space nature of latex, it is safer to install lyx under a path without space. However, the developers have tried their best to let lyx works as *usual* (?) under windows. As a result, lyx 1.4.2 should work under c:\program files. If lyx can not start under your machines, it should be investigated. So, what exactly happened when you start lyx when it is installed under c:\program files? Bo I launch lyx from the Start/Program menu, a command window appears then disappears a split second later and that's it. No alert dialog, no nothing. As far a I'm concerned, lyx doesn't _have to_ be installed in program files. Installing it in c:\ is okay. Would've been nice to have had a heads-up is all. It's starting to sound like I might have done something screwy. Bet if I tried again from scratch I won't see this problem. eric
Re: installing lyx on windows
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 least display the GUI and cough up a message to that effect.) Right after I installed lyx, it spent a lot of time downloading stuff. They looked like template files, might have class files, I wasn't paying that close attention. And it may or may not have been lyx that was doing the downloading, could've been MikTeX which I installed at about the same time. (The dialog boxes didn't say what program they were affiliated with). After LyX installs, it automatically runs a configuration script that, among other things, snoops around your LaTeX installation looking to see which among a roster of common classes are installed. That information is written to some configuration files. MikTeX treats this the same way it treats a document trying to load a class, and so (depending on how you have MikTeX configured) it will either do nothing, automatically install the classes, or bug you whether or not to install each one. (I'm category three, so every time I install a new LyX version I get multiple nags from MikTeX.) If you're on the auto-install plan, probably that was the downloading you observed. After all that was done (as near as I could tell), I would go to Start- Programs and click on lyx then a command window would pop up for about a half-second, disappear and that's all she wrote. Well, I'm pretty sure that's not the configuration burped error. So you're saying that you could install and run lyx at the Program Files directory, out of the box, with no problems and without having to futz around with anything? Windows being Windows, the most I'm willing to say is that LyX typically installs properly in C:\Program Files (but your actual mileage, if you get any, may vary). If you clean out an detritus and try another install under C:\Program Files, it might fly this time. If not, try opening a command prompt in the LyX bin directory and run lyx.bat from there. That way, if it spits up an error message, you'll have a chance to see it without the window closing on you. /Paul
Re: installing lyx on windows
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'm willing to say is that LyX typically installs properly in C:\Program Files (but your actual mileage, if you get any, may vary). :-) If you clean out an detritus and try another install under C:\Program Files, it might fly this time. If not, try opening a command prompt in the LyX bin directory and run lyx.bat from there. That way, if it spits up an error message, you'll have a chance to see it without the window closing on you. This is what I would suggest. Bo
installing lyx on windows
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 seems that some folks don't have a problem installing to Program Files. If that's true, then what gives? A suggestion, if lyx really does have a problem being installed in Program Files then it'd be nice if that fact were well publicized (I found no mention of it on the lyx homepage, nor on the wiki). Also, when I did it, the default installation directory was C:\Program Files, this should probably be changed. regards, eric
Re: installing lyx on windows
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:\ and that works okay. Looking through some of these older messages, it seems that some folks don't have a problem installing to Program Files. If that's true, then what gives? 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 least display the GUI and cough up a message to that effect.) A suggestion, if lyx really does have a problem being installed in Program Files then it'd be nice if that fact were well publicized (I found no mention of it on the lyx homepage, nor on the wiki). Also, when I did it, the default installation directory was C:\Program Files, this should probably be changed. Really? On my systems, I think it defaulted to C:\Program Files\lyx14 (not positive, since I changed from the default). By the way, were you logged in with administrator permissions when you attempted the installation? /Paul
Re: installing lyx on windows
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 okay. Looking through some of these older messages, it seems that some folks don't have a problem installing to Program Files. If that's true, then what gives? Due to the anti-space nature of latex, it is safer to install lyx under a path without space. However, the developers have tried their best to let lyx works as *usual* (?) under windows. As a result, lyx 1.4.2 should work under c:\program files. If lyx can not start under your machines, it should be investigated. So, what exactly happened when you start lyx when it is installed under c:\program files? Bo
Re: installing lyx on windows
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 requisite configuration information. (But it would at least display the GUI and cough up a message to that effect.) Right after I installed lyx, it spent a lot of time downloading stuff. They looked like template files, might have class files, I wasn't paying that close attention. And it may or may not have been lyx that was doing the downloading, could've been MikTeX which I installed at about the same time. (The dialog boxes didn't say what program they were affiliated with). After all that was done (as near as I could tell), I would go to Start- Programs and click on lyx then a command window would pop up for about a half-second, disappear and that's all she wrote. A suggestion, if lyx really does have a problem being installed in Program Files then it'd be nice if that fact were well publicized (I found no mention of it on the lyx homepage, nor on the wiki). Also, when I did it, the default installation directory was C:\Program Files, this should probably be changed. Really? On my systems, I think it defaulted to C:\Program Files\lyx14 (not positive, since I changed from the default). By the way, were you logged in with administrator permissions when you attempted the installation? Well, yeah okay C:\Program Files\lyxsomething-or-other. And yes, I did this as the admin. So you're saying that you could install and run lyx at the Program Files directory, out of the box, with no problems and without having to futz around with anything? eric
Re: installing lyx on windows
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 attempt. I tried reinstalling to C:\ and that works okay. Looking through some of these older messages, it seems that some folks don't have a problem installing to Program Files. If that's true, then what gives? Due to the anti-space nature of latex, it is safer to install lyx under a path without space. However, the developers have tried their best to let lyx works as *usual* (?) under windows. As a result, lyx 1.4.2 should work under c:\program files. If lyx can not start under your machines, it should be investigated. So, what exactly happened when you start lyx when it is installed under c:\program files? Bo I launch lyx from the Start/Program menu, a command window appears then disappears a split second later and that's it. No alert dialog, no nothing. As far a I'm concerned, lyx doesn't _have to_ be installed in program files. Installing it in c:\ is okay. Would've been nice to have had a heads-up is all. It's starting to sound like I might have done something screwy. Bet if I tried again from scratch I won't see this problem. eric
Re: installing lyx on windows
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 least display the GUI and cough up a message to that effect.) Right after I installed lyx, it spent a lot of time downloading stuff. They looked like template files, might have class files, I wasn't paying that close attention. And it may or may not have been lyx that was doing the downloading, could've been MikTeX which I installed at about the same time. (The dialog boxes didn't say what program they were affiliated with). After LyX installs, it automatically runs a configuration script that, among other things, snoops around your LaTeX installation looking to see which among a roster of common classes are installed. That information is written to some configuration files. MikTeX treats this the same way it treats a document trying to load a class, and so (depending on how you have MikTeX configured) it will either do nothing, automatically install the classes, or bug you whether or not to install each one. (I'm category three, so every time I install a new LyX version I get multiple nags from MikTeX.) If you're on the auto-install plan, probably that was the downloading you observed. After all that was done (as near as I could tell), I would go to Start- Programs and click on lyx then a command window would pop up for about a half-second, disappear and that's all she wrote. Well, I'm pretty sure that's not the configuration burped error. So you're saying that you could install and run lyx at the Program Files directory, out of the box, with no problems and without having to futz around with anything? Windows being Windows, the most I'm willing to say is that LyX typically installs properly in C:\Program Files (but your actual mileage, if you get any, may vary). If you clean out an detritus and try another install under C:\Program Files, it might fly this time. If not, try opening a command prompt in the LyX bin directory and run lyx.bat from there. That way, if it spits up an error message, you'll have a chance to see it without the window closing on you. /Paul
Re: installing lyx on windows
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'm willing to say is that LyX typically installs properly in C:\Program Files (but your actual mileage, if you get any, may vary). :-) If you clean out an detritus and try another install under C:\Program Files, it might fly this time. If not, try opening a command prompt in the LyX bin directory and run lyx.bat from there. That way, if it spits up an error message, you'll have a chance to see it without the window closing on you. This is what I would suggest. Bo
installing lyx on windows
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 seems that some folks don't have a problem installing to "Program Files". If that's true, then what gives? A suggestion, if lyx really does have a problem being installed in "Program Files" then it'd be nice if that fact were well publicized (I found no mention of it on the lyx homepage, nor on the wiki). Also, when I did it, the default installation directory was "C:\Program Files", this should probably be changed. regards, eric
Re: installing lyx on windows
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:\" and that works okay. Looking through some of these older messages, it seems that some folks don't have a problem installing to "Program Files". If that's true, then what gives? 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 least display the GUI and cough up a message to that effect.) A suggestion, if lyx really does have a problem being installed in "Program Files" then it'd be nice if that fact were well publicized (I found no mention of it on the lyx homepage, nor on the wiki). Also, when I did it, the default installation directory was "C:\Program Files", this should probably be changed. Really? On my systems, I think it defaulted to C:\Program Files\lyx14 (not positive, since I changed from the default). By the way, were you logged in with administrator permissions when you attempted the installation? /Paul
Re: installing lyx on windows
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 okay. Looking through some of these older messages, it seems that some folks don't have a problem installing to "Program Files". If that's true, then what gives? Due to the anti-space nature of latex, it is safer to install lyx under a path without space. However, the developers have tried their best to let lyx works as *usual* (?) under windows. As a result, lyx 1.4.2 should work under c:\program files. If lyx can not start under your machines, it should be investigated. So, what exactly happened when you start lyx when it is installed under c:\program files? Bo
Re: installing lyx on windows
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 requisite configuration information. (But it would at least display > the GUI and cough up a message to that effect.) > > Right after I installed lyx, it spent a lot of time downloading stuff. They looked like template files, might have class files, I wasn't paying that close attention. And it may or may not have been lyx that was doing the downloading, could've been MikTeX which I installed at about the same time. (The dialog boxes didn't say what program they were affiliated with). After all that was done (as near as I could tell), I would go to Start-> Programs and click on "lyx" then a command window would pop up for about a half-second, disappear and that's all she wrote. > > A suggestion, if lyx really does have a problem being installed in > > "Program Files" then it'd be nice if that fact were well publicized > > (I found no mention of it on the lyx homepage, nor on the wiki). > > Also, when I did it, the default installation directory was > > "C:\Program Files", this should probably be changed. > > Really? On my systems, I think it defaulted to C:\Program Files\lyx14 > (not positive, since I changed from the default). > > By the way, were you logged in with administrator permissions when you > attempted the installation? > Well, yeah okay "C:\Program Files\lyx". And yes, I did this as the admin. So you're saying that you could install and run lyx at the "Program Files" directory, out of the box, with no problems and without having to futz around with anything? eric
Re: installing lyx on windows
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 attempt. I tried reinstalling to "C:\" and that > > works okay. Looking through some of these older messages, it > > seems that some folks don't have a problem installing to > > "Program Files". If that's true, then what gives? > > Due to the anti-space nature of latex, it is safer to install lyx > under a path without space. However, the developers have tried their > best to let lyx works as *usual* (?) under windows. As a result, lyx > 1.4.2 should work under c:\program files. If lyx can not start under > your machines, it should be investigated. > > So, what exactly happened when you start lyx when it is installed > under c:\program files? > > Bo > > I launch lyx from the Start/Program menu, a command window appears then disappears a split second later and that's it. No alert dialog, no nothing. As far a I'm concerned, lyx doesn't _have to_ be installed in "program files". Installing it in "c:\" is okay. Would've been nice to have had a heads-up is all. It's starting to sound like I might have done something screwy. Bet if I tried again from scratch I won't see this problem. eric
Re: installing lyx on windows
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 least display the GUI and cough up a message to that effect.) Right after I installed lyx, it spent a lot of time downloading stuff. They looked like template files, might have class files, I wasn't paying that close attention. And it may or may not have been lyx that was doing the downloading, could've been MikTeX which I installed at about the same time. (The dialog boxes didn't say what program they were affiliated with). After LyX installs, it automatically runs a configuration script that, among other things, snoops around your LaTeX installation looking to see which among a roster of "common" classes are installed. That information is written to some configuration files. MikTeX treats this the same way it treats a document trying to load a class, and so (depending on how you have MikTeX configured) it will either do nothing, automatically install the classes, or bug you whether or not to install each one. (I'm category three, so every time I install a new LyX version I get multiple nags from MikTeX.) If you're on the auto-install plan, probably that was the downloading you observed. After all that was done (as near as I could tell), I would go to Start-> Programs and click on "lyx" then a command window would pop up for about a half-second, disappear and that's all she wrote. Well, I'm pretty sure that's not the "configuration burped" error. So you're saying that you could install and run lyx at the "Program Files" directory, out of the box, with no problems and without having to futz around with anything? Windows being Windows, the most I'm willing to say is that LyX typically installs properly in C:\Program Files (but your actual mileage, if you get any, may vary). If you clean out an detritus and try another install under C:\Program Files, it might fly this time. If not, try opening a command prompt in the LyX bin directory and run lyx.bat from there. That way, if it spits up an error message, you'll have a chance to see it without the window closing on you. /Paul
Re: installing lyx on windows
> 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'm willing to say is that LyX typically installs properly in C:\Program Files (but your actual mileage, if you get any, may vary). :-) If you clean out an detritus and try another install under C:\Program Files, it might fly this time. If not, try opening a command prompt in the LyX bin directory and run lyx.bat from there. That way, if it spits up an error message, you'll have a chance to see it without the window closing on you. This is what I would suggest. Bo
Installing Lyx on Windows: pb with Python (or msys?)
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 message creating doc/LaTeXConfig.lyx has been written on the console, I get a nice windows window tr.exe has encoutered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Then it goes on, and while checking for Tex fonts, it writes checking for cmex10... and I have another error message In.exe has encountered a problem..., and have the same again while checking for cmmi10, cmr10, cmsy10, eufm10, musam10, msbm10, wasy10, then same error message but about diff.exe 5 times. Then, it says that lyx has been (re)configurated. When I then try to use lyx, I can open a document and view it in DraftDVI, but if I try to view it with anything else, I have an error Cannot convert file Error while executing python C:/Program Files/lyx/Resources/lyx/scripts and the message is an ImportError for the os module. I have tried reconfigurating lyx, checked all my installs the best I could, but I have to say I don't know which way to approach it anymore: is it the Python install or the msys one ?? Anybody has any hint ?? Thanks in advance for your help, Mélanie
Re: Installing Lyx on Windows: pb with Python (or msys?)
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 setup. -- José Abílio
Installing Lyx on Windows: pb with Python (or msys?)
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 message creating doc/LaTeXConfig.lyx has been written on the console, I get a nice windows window tr.exe has encoutered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Then it goes on, and while checking for Tex fonts, it writes checking for cmex10... and I have another error message In.exe has encountered a problem..., and have the same again while checking for cmmi10, cmr10, cmsy10, eufm10, musam10, msbm10, wasy10, then same error message but about diff.exe 5 times. Then, it says that lyx has been (re)configurated. When I then try to use lyx, I can open a document and view it in DraftDVI, but if I try to view it with anything else, I have an error Cannot convert file Error while executing python C:/Program Files/lyx/Resources/lyx/scripts and the message is an ImportError for the os module. I have tried reconfigurating lyx, checked all my installs the best I could, but I have to say I don't know which way to approach it anymore: is it the Python install or the msys one ?? Anybody has any hint ?? Thanks in advance for your help, Mélanie
Re: Installing Lyx on Windows: pb with Python (or msys?)
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 setup. -- José Abílio
Installing Lyx on Windows: pb with Python (or msys?)
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 message "creating doc/LaTeXConfig.lyx" has been written on the console, I get a nice windows window "tr.exe has encoutered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience". Then it goes on, and while checking for Tex fonts, it writes "checking for cmex10..." and I have another error message "In.exe has encountered a problem...", and have the same again while checking for "cmmi10", "cmr10", "cmsy10", "eufm10", "musam10", "msbm10", "wasy10", then same error message but about "diff.exe" 5 times. Then, it says that lyx has been (re)configurated. When I then try to use lyx, I can open a document and view it in DraftDVI, but if I try to view it with anything else, I have an error "Cannot convert file Error while executing python "C:/Program Files/lyx/Resources/lyx/scripts"" and the message is an ImportError for the os module. I have tried reconfigurating lyx, checked all my installs the best I could, but I have to say I don't know which way to approach it anymore: is it the Python install or the msys one ?? Anybody has any hint ?? Thanks in advance for your help, Mélanie
Re: Installing Lyx on Windows: pb with Python (or msys?)
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 setup. -- José Abílio
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Hello Paul, and all the others who gave suugestions as well Thanks for the marvellous level of support - way beyond anything I've ever experienced with commercial software - as well as encouragement. The problem seems to have been the old version of sed, as well as an empty version of textclass.lst that somehow happened elsewhere on the HD as a result either of the installation or of my half-baked attempts to get it right. I now have the opening splash screen and a whole program menu to play with, as well as a free Sunday morning... oh happy day! Thanks again to all Richard Paul A. Rubin wrote: Richard Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. This looks fine. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true This is as it should be. When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard The error message typically occurs when either textclass.lst does not exist (anywhere) or textclass.lst exists but has length zero bytes (and *that* typically happens as a result of a problem with the configuration script). Now, if there's no textclass.lst in the directory where LyX starts (which is not necessarily the bin directory), then LyX should find the copy in lyx\share\lyx and start ok (I just verified this on my laptop). On the other hand, if you have a zero-length copy in the startup directory and a valid copy in lyx\share\lyx, you get the error (also just verified). So my best guess is that there is in fact a zero byte version sitting around somewhere. So here are a couple of things to try: 1. Search your PC for all copies of textclass.lst (either using the Windows search utility or by opening a command window and typing 'dir c:\textclass.lst /s'), and see if any copies with length zero show up. That will help pin down where LyX is starting, if in fact we find one. 2. Create a starting document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\work), copy the textclass.lst and paste the copy in there. While you're at it, copy packages.lst, clsfiles.lst, styfiles.lst and lyxrc.default from lyx\share\lyx into the work directory as well. (Not all of those may exist -- some are created by a successful configuration run, and I'm still not sure whether you've had one.) Now create a shortcut to the lyx.exe file (you can right-click it in Win Explorer and create the shortcut from the context menu that pops up). Now right-click the shortcut, choose Properties, and on the Shortcut tab set the target and startup entries as follows: Target: C:\lyx\bin\lyx.exe -userdir c:\lyx\work Start in: C;\lyx\bin (the second one should already be filled in correctly, but just to be sure ...). Click ok and then try to start LyX by double-clicking the shortcut. Does that help? One other thing to check: open a command prompt in c:\lyx\bin and type 'sed --version'. If the version number starts with a 3, you're using the copy of sed that came with the LyX installer, and it's known to fail in a way that leaves a zero-length textclass.lst. There's a tip on the Wiki about where to find a more recent copy of sed. Note that what you download when you follow the link from the Wiki is an *installer* that has to be run to install sed. (Some people have gotten confused and thought they were downloading sed.exe itself.) Let us know what transpires. -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Hello Paul, and all the others who gave suugestions as well Thanks for the marvellous level of support - way beyond anything I've ever experienced with commercial software - as well as encouragement. The problem seems to have been the old version of sed, as well as an empty version of textclass.lst that somehow happened elsewhere on the HD as a result either of the installation or of my half-baked attempts to get it right. I now have the opening splash screen and a whole program menu to play with, as well as a free Sunday morning... oh happy day! Thanks again to all Richard Paul A. Rubin wrote: Richard Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. This looks fine. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true This is as it should be. When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard The error message typically occurs when either textclass.lst does not exist (anywhere) or textclass.lst exists but has length zero bytes (and *that* typically happens as a result of a problem with the configuration script). Now, if there's no textclass.lst in the directory where LyX starts (which is not necessarily the bin directory), then LyX should find the copy in lyx\share\lyx and start ok (I just verified this on my laptop). On the other hand, if you have a zero-length copy in the startup directory and a valid copy in lyx\share\lyx, you get the error (also just verified). So my best guess is that there is in fact a zero byte version sitting around somewhere. So here are a couple of things to try: 1. Search your PC for all copies of textclass.lst (either using the Windows search utility or by opening a command window and typing 'dir c:\textclass.lst /s'), and see if any copies with length zero show up. That will help pin down where LyX is starting, if in fact we find one. 2. Create a starting document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\work), copy the textclass.lst and paste the copy in there. While you're at it, copy packages.lst, clsfiles.lst, styfiles.lst and lyxrc.default from lyx\share\lyx into the work directory as well. (Not all of those may exist -- some are created by a successful configuration run, and I'm still not sure whether you've had one.) Now create a shortcut to the lyx.exe file (you can right-click it in Win Explorer and create the shortcut from the context menu that pops up). Now right-click the shortcut, choose Properties, and on the Shortcut tab set the target and startup entries as follows: Target: C:\lyx\bin\lyx.exe -userdir c:\lyx\work Start in: C;\lyx\bin (the second one should already be filled in correctly, but just to be sure ...). Click ok and then try to start LyX by double-clicking the shortcut. Does that help? One other thing to check: open a command prompt in c:\lyx\bin and type 'sed --version'. If the version number starts with a 3, you're using the copy of sed that came with the LyX installer, and it's known to fail in a way that leaves a zero-length textclass.lst. There's a tip on the Wiki about where to find a more recent copy of sed. Note that what you download when you follow the link from the Wiki is an *installer* that has to be run to install sed. (Some people have gotten confused and thought they were downloading sed.exe itself.) Let us know what transpires. -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Hello Paul, and all the others who gave suugestions as well Thanks for the marvellous level of support - way beyond anything I've ever experienced with commercial software - as well as encouragement. The problem seems to have been the old version of sed, as well as an empty version of textclass.lst that somehow happened elsewhere on the HD as a result either of the installation or of my half-baked attempts to get it right. I now have the opening splash screen and a whole program menu to play with, as well as a free Sunday morning... oh happy day! Thanks again to all Richard Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Richard Brown wrote: > >> Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at >> all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it >> was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was >> lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have >> C:\lyx >> which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the >> exe did this. > > > This looks fine. > >> The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. >> In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one >> called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and >> another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst >> and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of >> textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: >> >> "IEEEtran" "IEEEtran" "article (IEEEtran)" "true" >> "aa" "aa" "article (A)" "false" >> "aapaper" "aa" "article (A V4)" "false" >> "aastex" "aastex" "article (AASTeX)" "true" > > > This is as it should be. > >> When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to >> the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. >> I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory >> to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no >> difference. The error still says >> >> LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description >> >> Check the contents of the file “textclass.lst” >> Sorry, has to exit >> >> >> >> I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to >> give. >> >> Richard > > > The error message typically occurs when either textclass.lst does not > exist (anywhere) or textclass.lst exists but has length zero bytes > (and *that* typically happens as a result of a problem with the > configuration script). Now, if there's no textclass.lst in the > directory where LyX starts (which is not necessarily the bin > directory), then LyX should find the copy in lyx\share\lyx and start > ok (I just verified this on my laptop). On the other hand, if you have > a zero-length copy in the startup directory and a valid copy in > lyx\share\lyx, you get the error (also just verified). So my best > guess is that there is in fact a zero byte version sitting around > somewhere. > > So here are a couple of things to try: > > 1. Search your PC for all copies of textclass.lst (either using the > Windows search utility or by opening a command window and typing 'dir > c:\textclass.lst /s'), and see if any copies with length zero show up. > That will help pin down where LyX is starting, if in fact we find one. > > 2. Create a starting document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\work), > copy the textclass.lst and paste the copy in there. While you're at > it, copy packages.lst, clsfiles.lst, styfiles.lst and lyxrc.default > from lyx\share\lyx into the work directory as well. (Not all of those > may exist -- some are created by a successful configuration run, and > I'm still not sure whether you've had one.) Now create a shortcut to > the lyx.exe file (you can right-click it in Win Explorer and create > the shortcut from the context menu that pops up). Now right-click the > shortcut, choose Properties, and on the Shortcut tab set the target > and startup entries as follows: > > Target: C:\lyx\bin\lyx.exe -userdir c:\lyx\work > Start in: C;\lyx\bin > > (the second one should already be filled in correctly, but just to be > sure ...). Click ok and then try to start LyX by double-clicking the > shortcut. Does that help? > > One other thing to check: open a command prompt in c:\lyx\bin and type > 'sed --version'. If the version number starts with a 3, you're using > the copy of sed that came with the LyX installer, and it's known to > fail in a way that leaves a zero-length textclass.lst. There's a tip > on the Wiki about where to find a more recent copy of sed. Note that > what you download when you follow the link from the Wiki is an > *installer* that has to be run to install sed. (Some people have > gotten confused and thought they were downloading sed.exe itself.) > > Let us know what transpires. > > -- Paul > > >
Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. Thanks in advance for your help: this linux based stuff is all new to me, but I think from reading that lyx will be a major help to me as a professional writer- If I can get it up and running! Richard
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Hei! Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre If you are already using the installer for version 1.3.6, be sure it is the last version (i.e. v.12). The problem you mentioned was presnet in a previous version of the installer, but it should be solved in v.12. Anyway, be sure you have Miktex installed and that you have also installed all your latex class files. Then open Lyx and run Edit-Reconfigure Hope it helps! Nicols Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Nicols a crit: Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is recommended to use LyX 1.3.5 for daily use! regards Uwe
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Uwe Sthr wrote: accents don't work. Uwe, don't the accents work in general or only in the workarea? I.e., do they work in the dialog widgets? Jrgen
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I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I got exactly the same error. Original Message Nicols wrote Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Sorry! I guess you are right Uwe. It is just that I am using v1.3.6 without problems (at least no more than those v1.3.5 has), so therefore I recommended it. But again, you are right, for me works ok, but for other people, using other features than those I use, it may give problems. Uwe Sthr wrote: Nicols a crit: Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is recommended to use LyX 1.3.5 for daily use! regards Uwe
Re: [Fwd: Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP]
Richard Brown wrote: I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I got exactly the same error. I think that I would also suggest that an advanced idiot (;-)) doesn't use LyX 1.3.6pre just yet. There are some bugs in the underlyxing Qt/Win Free library that can cause a hard crash. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre#known_bugs Moving on to the specific problem. Can you open a MinSYS console (since you have installed MinSYS) and type: $ cd /c/Program\ Files/LyX/Resources/lyx $ ls Does the file textclass.lst really not exist? Assuming not, type $ sh configure --keep-temps 21 configure.log (You'll need to have Administrator privileges for this to work if you have installed LyX at this location.) This will save all output from the configure script to a file configure.log. Have a look at it with your favourite text editor. Does it tell you anything interesting? You may need to convert the line endings of configure.log from DOS to UNIX style --- notepad gets horribly confused and prints out the entire file as a single line if it has UNIX style line endings. If so, use the attached sed script, so: $ sed -f unix2dos.sed configure.log tmp $ mv -f tmp configure.log Here, of course, configure runs successfully leaving me with all these files: $ ls binddoc lyxrc.defaults texput.log chkconfig.sed examples Makefiletextclass.lst chkconfig.vars help packages.lstui chklayouts.tex imagesreLyX wrap_chkconfig.log clipart kbd scripts wrap_chkconfig.ltx configure.log layouts templates xfonts Let's see what happens for you. Angus -- Anguss/$/ /
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, The advanced part puts you one up on me. :-) so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. Are you saying that textclass.lst is in the bin directory?? Did you start LyX from the bin directory? Is packages.lst in the bin directory as well (and does it have non-zero length)? The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx Just to confirm your directory structure, lyx.exe is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin, right? I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. AFAIK, LyX and all helper programs are completely agnostic with respect to the processor. You're a brave soul to run XP Pro on a system with only 128MB of RAM, though. (But that doesn't account for the problem at hand.) I'm with the others on this thread -- I'd stick with LyX 1.3.5 for now, rather than become an alpha tester for 1.3.6. FYI, LyX creates a variety of files (including textclass.lst) in your home directory (which is either the directory from which it is started or the directory specified in Edit | Preferences | Paths | Working directory (once you get into LyX and set some preferences). It also creates a subdirectory tree under that directory. To minimize clutter, if for no other reason, I'd advise creating a base document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\documents) and starting it from there. I don't know any reason why it would have trouble finding textclass.lst in the bin directory if that's where it was started, but then I've never tried that (and don't intend to). -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard Paul A. Rubin wrote: Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, The advanced part puts you one up on me. :-) so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. Are you saying that textclass.lst is in the bin directory?? Did you start LyX from the bin directory? Is packages.lst in the bin directory as well (and does it have non-zero length)? The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx Just to confirm your directory structure, lyx.exe is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin, right? I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. AFAIK, LyX and all helper programs are completely agnostic with respect to the processor. You're a brave soul to run XP Pro on a system with only 128MB of RAM, though. (But that doesn't account for the problem at hand.) I'm with the others on this thread -- I'd stick with LyX 1.3.5 for now, rather than become an alpha tester for 1.3.6. FYI, LyX creates a variety of files (including textclass.lst) in your home directory (which is either the directory from which it is started or the directory specified in Edit | Preferences | Paths | Working directory (once you get into LyX and set some preferences). It also creates a subdirectory tree under that directory. To minimize clutter, if for no other reason, I'd advise creating a base document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\documents) and starting it from there. I don't know any reason why it would have trouble finding textclass.lst in the bin directory if that's where it was started, but then I've never tried that (and don't intend to). -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Richard Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. This looks fine. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true This is as it should be. When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard The error message typically occurs when either textclass.lst does not exist (anywhere) or textclass.lst exists but has length zero bytes (and *that* typically happens as a result of a problem with the configuration script). Now, if there's no textclass.lst in the directory where LyX starts (which is not necessarily the bin directory), then LyX should find the copy in lyx\share\lyx and start ok (I just verified this on my laptop). On the other hand, if you have a zero-length copy in the startup directory and a valid copy in lyx\share\lyx, you get the error (also just verified). So my best guess is that there is in fact a zero byte version sitting around somewhere. So here are a couple of things to try: 1. Search your PC for all copies of textclass.lst (either using the Windows search utility or by opening a command window and typing 'dir c:\textclass.lst /s'), and see if any copies with length zero show up. That will help pin down where LyX is starting, if in fact we find one. 2. Create a starting document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\work), copy the textclass.lst and paste the copy in there. While you're at it, copy packages.lst, clsfiles.lst, styfiles.lst and lyxrc.default from lyx\share\lyx into the work directory as well. (Not all of those may exist -- some are created by a successful configuration run, and I'm still not sure whether you've had one.) Now create a shortcut to the lyx.exe file (you can right-click it in Win Explorer and create the shortcut from the context menu that pops up). Now right-click the shortcut, choose Properties, and on the Shortcut tab set the target and startup entries as follows: Target: C:\lyx\bin\lyx.exe -userdir c:\lyx\work Start in: C;\lyx\bin (the second one should already be filled in correctly, but just to be sure ...). Click ok and then try to start LyX by double-clicking the shortcut. Does that help? One other thing to check: open a command prompt in c:\lyx\bin and type 'sed --version'. If the version number starts with a 3, you're using the copy of sed that came with the LyX installer, and it's known to fail in a way that leaves a zero-length textclass.lst. There's a tip on the Wiki about where to find a more recent copy of sed. Note that what you download when you follow the link from the Wiki is an *installer* that has to be run to install sed. (Some people have gotten confused and thought they were downloading sed.exe itself.) Let us know what transpires. -- Paul
Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. Thanks in advance for your help: this linux based stuff is all new to me, but I think from reading that lyx will be a major help to me as a professional writer- If I can get it up and running! Richard
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Hei! Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre If you are already using the installer for version 1.3.6, be sure it is the last version (i.e. v.12). The problem you mentioned was presnet in a previous version of the installer, but it should be solved in v.12. Anyway, be sure you have Miktex installed and that you have also installed all your latex class files. Then open Lyx and run Edit-Reconfigure Hope it helps! Nicols Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Nicols a crit: Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is recommended to use LyX 1.3.5 for daily use! regards Uwe
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Uwe Sthr wrote: accents don't work. Uwe, don't the accents work in general or only in the workarea? I.e., do they work in the dialog widgets? Jrgen
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I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I got exactly the same error. Original Message Nicols wrote Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Sorry! I guess you are right Uwe. It is just that I am using v1.3.6 without problems (at least no more than those v1.3.5 has), so therefore I recommended it. But again, you are right, for me works ok, but for other people, using other features than those I use, it may give problems. Uwe Sthr wrote: Nicols a crit: Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is recommended to use LyX 1.3.5 for daily use! regards Uwe
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Richard Brown wrote: I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I got exactly the same error. I think that I would also suggest that an advanced idiot (;-)) doesn't use LyX 1.3.6pre just yet. There are some bugs in the underlyxing Qt/Win Free library that can cause a hard crash. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre#known_bugs Moving on to the specific problem. Can you open a MinSYS console (since you have installed MinSYS) and type: $ cd /c/Program\ Files/LyX/Resources/lyx $ ls Does the file textclass.lst really not exist? Assuming not, type $ sh configure --keep-temps 21 configure.log (You'll need to have Administrator privileges for this to work if you have installed LyX at this location.) This will save all output from the configure script to a file configure.log. Have a look at it with your favourite text editor. Does it tell you anything interesting? You may need to convert the line endings of configure.log from DOS to UNIX style --- notepad gets horribly confused and prints out the entire file as a single line if it has UNIX style line endings. If so, use the attached sed script, so: $ sed -f unix2dos.sed configure.log tmp $ mv -f tmp configure.log Here, of course, configure runs successfully leaving me with all these files: $ ls binddoc lyxrc.defaults texput.log chkconfig.sed examples Makefiletextclass.lst chkconfig.vars help packages.lstui chklayouts.tex imagesreLyX wrap_chkconfig.log clipart kbd scripts wrap_chkconfig.ltx configure.log layouts templates xfonts Let's see what happens for you. Angus -- Anguss/$/ /
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, The advanced part puts you one up on me. :-) so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. Are you saying that textclass.lst is in the bin directory?? Did you start LyX from the bin directory? Is packages.lst in the bin directory as well (and does it have non-zero length)? The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx Just to confirm your directory structure, lyx.exe is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin, right? I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. AFAIK, LyX and all helper programs are completely agnostic with respect to the processor. You're a brave soul to run XP Pro on a system with only 128MB of RAM, though. (But that doesn't account for the problem at hand.) I'm with the others on this thread -- I'd stick with LyX 1.3.5 for now, rather than become an alpha tester for 1.3.6. FYI, LyX creates a variety of files (including textclass.lst) in your home directory (which is either the directory from which it is started or the directory specified in Edit | Preferences | Paths | Working directory (once you get into LyX and set some preferences). It also creates a subdirectory tree under that directory. To minimize clutter, if for no other reason, I'd advise creating a base document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\documents) and starting it from there. I don't know any reason why it would have trouble finding textclass.lst in the bin directory if that's where it was started, but then I've never tried that (and don't intend to). -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard Paul A. Rubin wrote: Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, The advanced part puts you one up on me. :-) so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. Are you saying that textclass.lst is in the bin directory?? Did you start LyX from the bin directory? Is packages.lst in the bin directory as well (and does it have non-zero length)? The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx Just to confirm your directory structure, lyx.exe is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin, right? I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. AFAIK, LyX and all helper programs are completely agnostic with respect to the processor. You're a brave soul to run XP Pro on a system with only 128MB of RAM, though. (But that doesn't account for the problem at hand.) I'm with the others on this thread -- I'd stick with LyX 1.3.5 for now, rather than become an alpha tester for 1.3.6. FYI, LyX creates a variety of files (including textclass.lst) in your home directory (which is either the directory from which it is started or the directory specified in Edit | Preferences | Paths | Working directory (once you get into LyX and set some preferences). It also creates a subdirectory tree under that directory. To minimize clutter, if for no other reason, I'd advise creating a base document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\documents) and starting it from there. I don't know any reason why it would have trouble finding textclass.lst in the bin directory if that's where it was started, but then I've never tried that (and don't intend to). -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Richard Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. This looks fine. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true This is as it should be. When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard The error message typically occurs when either textclass.lst does not exist (anywhere) or textclass.lst exists but has length zero bytes (and *that* typically happens as a result of a problem with the configuration script). Now, if there's no textclass.lst in the directory where LyX starts (which is not necessarily the bin directory), then LyX should find the copy in lyx\share\lyx and start ok (I just verified this on my laptop). On the other hand, if you have a zero-length copy in the startup directory and a valid copy in lyx\share\lyx, you get the error (also just verified). So my best guess is that there is in fact a zero byte version sitting around somewhere. So here are a couple of things to try: 1. Search your PC for all copies of textclass.lst (either using the Windows search utility or by opening a command window and typing 'dir c:\textclass.lst /s'), and see if any copies with length zero show up. That will help pin down where LyX is starting, if in fact we find one. 2. Create a starting document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\work), copy the textclass.lst and paste the copy in there. While you're at it, copy packages.lst, clsfiles.lst, styfiles.lst and lyxrc.default from lyx\share\lyx into the work directory as well. (Not all of those may exist -- some are created by a successful configuration run, and I'm still not sure whether you've had one.) Now create a shortcut to the lyx.exe file (you can right-click it in Win Explorer and create the shortcut from the context menu that pops up). Now right-click the shortcut, choose Properties, and on the Shortcut tab set the target and startup entries as follows: Target: C:\lyx\bin\lyx.exe -userdir c:\lyx\work Start in: C;\lyx\bin (the second one should already be filled in correctly, but just to be sure ...). Click ok and then try to start LyX by double-clicking the shortcut. Does that help? One other thing to check: open a command prompt in c:\lyx\bin and type 'sed --version'. If the version number starts with a 3, you're using the copy of sed that came with the LyX installer, and it's known to fail in a way that leaves a zero-length textclass.lst. There's a tip on the Wiki about where to find a more recent copy of sed. Note that what you download when you follow the link from the Wiki is an *installer* that has to be run to install sed. (Some people have gotten confused and thought they were downloading sed.exe itself.) Let us know what transpires. -- Paul
Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file “textclass.lst” Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. Thanks in advance for your help: this linux based stuff is all new to me, but I think from reading that lyx will be a major help to me as a professional writer- If I can get it up and running! Richard
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Hei! Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre If you are already using the installer for version 1.3.6, be sure it is the last version (i.e. v.12). The problem you mentioned was presnet in a previous version of the installer, but it should be solved in v.12. Anyway, be sure you have Miktex installed and that you have also installed all your latex class files. Then open Lyx and run Edit->Reconfigure Hope it helps! Nicolás Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file “textclass.lst” Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Nicolás a écrit: Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is recommended to use LyX 1.3.5 for daily use! regards Uwe
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > accents don't work. Uwe, don't the accents work in general or only in the workarea? I.e., do they work in the dialog widgets? Jürgen
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I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I got exactly the same error. Original Message Nicolàs wrote Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Richard Brown wrote: > Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is > advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. > I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all > sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first > attempt to run lyx I got this error message: > > LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description > > Check the contents of teh file “textclass.lst” > Sorry, has to exit > > > The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, > and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Sorry! I guess you are right Uwe. It is just that I am using v1.3.6 without problems (at least no more than those v1.3.5 has), so therefore I recommended it. But again, you are right, for me works ok, but for other people, using other features than those I use, it may give problems. Uwe Stöhr wrote: Nicolás a écrit: Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is recommended to use LyX 1.3.5 for daily use! regards Uwe
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Richard Brown wrote: > I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I > got exactly the same error. I think that I would also suggest that an "advanced idiot" (;-)) doesn't use LyX 1.3.6pre just yet. There are some bugs in the underlyxing Qt/Win Free library that can cause a hard crash. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre#known_bugs Moving on to the specific problem. Can you open a MinSYS console (since you have installed MinSYS) and type: $ cd /c/Program\ Files/LyX/Resources/lyx $ ls Does the file "textclass.lst" really not exist? Assuming not, type $ sh configure --keep-temps 2>&1 > configure.log (You'll need to have Administrator privileges for this to work if you have installed LyX at this location.) This will save all output from the configure script to a file configure.log. Have a look at it with your favourite text editor. Does it tell you anything interesting? You may need to convert the line endings of configure.log from DOS to UNIX style --- notepad gets horribly confused and prints out the entire file as a single line if it has UNIX style line endings. If so, use the attached sed script, so: $ sed -f unix2dos.sed configure.log > tmp $ mv -f tmp configure.log Here, of course, configure runs successfully leaving me with all these files: $ ls binddoc lyxrc.defaults texput.log chkconfig.sed examples Makefiletextclass.lst chkconfig.vars help packages.lstui chklayouts.tex imagesreLyX wrap_chkconfig.log clipart kbd scripts wrap_chkconfig.ltx configure.log layouts templates xfonts Let's see what happens for you. Angus -- Anguss/$/ /
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, The "advanced" part puts you one up on me. :-) so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file “textclass.lst” Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. Are you saying that textclass.lst is in the bin directory?? Did you start LyX from the bin directory? Is packages.lst in the bin directory as well (and does it have non-zero length)? The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx Just to confirm your directory structure, lyx.exe is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin, right? I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. AFAIK, LyX and all helper programs are completely agnostic with respect to the processor. You're a brave soul to run XP Pro on a system with only 128MB of RAM, though. (But that doesn't account for the problem at hand.) I'm with the others on this thread -- I'd stick with LyX 1.3.5 for now, rather than become an alpha tester for 1.3.6. FYI, LyX creates a variety of files (including textclass.lst) in your "home" directory (which is either the directory from which it is started or the directory specified in Edit | Preferences | Paths | Working directory (once you get into LyX and set some preferences). It also creates a subdirectory tree under that directory. To minimize clutter, if for no other reason, I'd advise creating a base document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\documents) and starting it from there. I don't know any reason why it would have trouble finding textclass.lst in the bin directory if that's where it was started, but then I've never tried that (and don't intend to). -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: "IEEEtran" "IEEEtran" "article (IEEEtran)" "true" "aa" "aa" "article (A)" "false" "aapaper" "aa" "article (A V4)" "false" "aastex" "aastex" "article (AASTeX)" "true" When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file “textclass.lst” Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Richard Brown wrote: > >> Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is >> advanced idiot, > > > The "advanced" part puts you one up on me. :-) > >> so I've assuredly done something wrong. >> I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all >> sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first >> attempt to run lyx I got this error message: >> >> LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description >> >> Check the contents of teh file “textclass.lst” >> Sorry, has to exit >> >> >> The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, >> and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. > > > Are you saying that textclass.lst is in the bin directory?? Did you > start LyX from the bin directory? Is packages.lst in the bin directory > as well (and does it have non-zero length)? > >> The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx > > > Just to confirm your directory structure, lyx.exe is in > c:\lyx\lyx\bin, right? > >> I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of >> free disk space. > > > AFAIK, LyX and all helper programs are completely agnostic with > respect to the processor. You're a brave soul to run XP Pro on a > system with only 128MB of RAM, though. (But that doesn't account for > the problem at hand.) > > I'm with the others on this thread -- I'd stick with LyX 1.3.5 for > now, rather than become an alpha tester for 1.3.6. > > FYI, LyX creates a variety of files (including textclass.lst) in your > "home" directory (which is either the directory from which it is > started or the directory specified in Edit | Preferences | Paths | > Working directory (once you get into LyX and set some preferences). It > also creates a subdirectory tree under that directory. To minimize > clutter, if for no other reason, I'd advise creating a base document > directory (for instance, c:\lyx\documents) and starting it from there. > I don't know any reason why it would have trouble finding > textclass.lst in the bin directory if that's where it was started, but > then I've never tried that (and don't intend to). > > -- Paul > > >
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Richard Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. This looks fine. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: "IEEEtran" "IEEEtran" "article (IEEEtran)" "true" "aa" "aa" "article (A)" "false" "aapaper" "aa" "article (A V4)" "false" "aastex" "aastex" "article (AASTeX)" "true" This is as it should be. When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file “textclass.lst” Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard The error message typically occurs when either textclass.lst does not exist (anywhere) or textclass.lst exists but has length zero bytes (and *that* typically happens as a result of a problem with the configuration script). Now, if there's no textclass.lst in the directory where LyX starts (which is not necessarily the bin directory), then LyX should find the copy in lyx\share\lyx and start ok (I just verified this on my laptop). On the other hand, if you have a zero-length copy in the startup directory and a valid copy in lyx\share\lyx, you get the error (also just verified). So my best guess is that there is in fact a zero byte version sitting around somewhere. So here are a couple of things to try: 1. Search your PC for all copies of textclass.lst (either using the Windows search utility or by opening a command window and typing 'dir c:\textclass.lst /s'), and see if any copies with length zero show up. That will help pin down where LyX is starting, if in fact we find one. 2. Create a starting document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\work), copy the textclass.lst and paste the copy in there. While you're at it, copy packages.lst, clsfiles.lst, styfiles.lst and lyxrc.default from lyx\share\lyx into the work directory as well. (Not all of those may exist -- some are created by a successful configuration run, and I'm still not sure whether you've had one.) Now create a shortcut to the lyx.exe file (you can right-click it in Win Explorer and create the shortcut from the context menu that pops up). Now right-click the shortcut, choose Properties, and on the Shortcut tab set the target and startup entries as follows: Target: C:\lyx\bin\lyx.exe -userdir c:\lyx\work Start in: C;\lyx\bin (the second one should already be filled in correctly, but just to be sure ...). Click ok and then try to start LyX by double-clicking the shortcut. Does that help? One other thing to check: open a command prompt in c:\lyx\bin and type 'sed --version'. If the version number starts with a 3, you're using the copy of sed that came with the LyX installer, and it's known to fail in a way that leaves a zero-length textclass.lst. There's a tip on the Wiki about where to find a more recent copy of sed. Note that what you download when you follow the link from the Wiki is an *installer* that has to be run to install sed. (Some people have gotten confused and thought they were downloading sed.exe itself.) Let us know what transpires. -- Paul
problem installing Lyx on Windows XP
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 get a Microsoft error message which looks as follows: AppName: setup.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: msvcrt.dll ModVer: 7.0.2600.0 Offset: 00034157 Has anyone experienced this? Please let me know if you have any suggestions. I'm using the latest Cygwin release (1.3.9) and downloaded all the Lyx install files from the Lyx windows port section. Thanks, nirmal
Re: problem installing Lyx on Windows XP
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 package directory (C:/LyxInstall) and then crashes and I get a Microsoft error message which looks as follows: AppName: setup.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: msvcrt.dll ModVer: 7.0.2600.0 Offset: 00034157 The problem seems to be that the format of setup.ini has changed since the LyX-specific one was created. You need to edit this file (in your LyxInstall directory), adding two lines at the top: setup-timestamp: 1013197208 setup-version: 2.125.2.10 (I copied the above from the setup.ini file from the standard cygwin install directory...I don't think the timestamp matters.) The latest setup.exe file from cygwin gives the error you see if these initial lines are not present. It's too bad the changes in setup are not backwards compatible to earlier setup.ini files. [You could report this to the cygwin list, but be prepared for a nasty-ish reply if you don't include a patch for the setup program at the same time.] ...hope this helps...it worked for me anywaydac
problem installing Lyx on Windows XP
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 get a Microsoft error message which looks as follows: AppName: setup.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: msvcrt.dll ModVer: 7.0.2600.0 Offset: 00034157 Has anyone experienced this? Please let me know if you have any suggestions. I'm using the latest Cygwin release (1.3.9) and downloaded all the Lyx install files from the Lyx windows port section. Thanks, nirmal
Re: problem installing Lyx on Windows XP
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 package directory (C:/LyxInstall) and then crashes and I get a Microsoft error message which looks as follows: AppName: setup.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: msvcrt.dll ModVer: 7.0.2600.0 Offset: 00034157 The problem seems to be that the format of setup.ini has changed since the LyX-specific one was created. You need to edit this file (in your LyxInstall directory), adding two lines at the top: setup-timestamp: 1013197208 setup-version: 2.125.2.10 (I copied the above from the setup.ini file from the standard cygwin install directory...I don't think the timestamp matters.) The latest setup.exe file from cygwin gives the error you see if these initial lines are not present. It's too bad the changes in setup are not backwards compatible to earlier setup.ini files. [You could report this to the cygwin list, but be prepared for a nasty-ish reply if you don't include a patch for the setup program at the same time.] ...hope this helps...it worked for me anywaydac
problem installing Lyx on Windows XP
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 get a Microsoft error message which looks as follows: AppName: setup.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: msvcrt.dll ModVer: 7.0.2600.0 Offset: 00034157 Has anyone experienced this? Please let me know if you have any suggestions. I'm using the latest Cygwin release (1.3.9) and downloaded all the Lyx install files from the Lyx windows port section. Thanks, nirmal
Re: problem installing Lyx on Windows XP
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 package directory (C:/LyxInstall) and then crashes and I > get a Microsoft error message which looks as follows: > > AppName: setup.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: msvcrt.dll > ModVer: 7.0.2600.0 Offset: 00034157 > The problem seems to be that the format of "setup.ini" has changed since the LyX-specific one was created. You need to edit this file (in your LyxInstall directory), adding two lines at the top: setup-timestamp: 1013197208 setup-version: 2.125.2.10 (I copied the above from the setup.ini file from the standard cygwin install directory...I don't think the timestamp matters.) The latest setup.exe file from cygwin gives the error you see if these initial lines are not present. It's too bad the changes in setup are not backwards compatible to earlier setup.ini files. [You could report this to the cygwin list, but be prepared for a nasty-ish reply if you don't include a patch for the setup program at the same time.] ...hope this helps...it worked for me anywaydac
