I wonder if Windows users see this problem in MikTeX regularly. I'm a Linux user, but I try to help the Windows students around here.
I've done several LyX installs in Windows systems while preparing for a workshop this week. I think the LyX-2.2.2 installation of MikTeX has some improvements. It pulls in quite a few more packages when it first starts. Even though the LyX bundle installer works OK, I'm frustrated with MikTeX. Today, I experience the problem that my MikTeX can't install new packages on any of these systems. Others have described it http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/251242/unable-to-connect-to-repository-in-miktex-2-9. MikTeX cannot retrieve the list of repositories from the central MikTeX server. Even if the package-server I want to use is online, the MikTeX routine fails. This has me angry enough now to use TexLive instead. TexLive is a big download, but it seems to come with all of the packages, no problem. It does not have the on-the-fly install, but maybe I don't care. I don't want to remove MikTex yet, I don't think I should have to. I had a little trouble getting LyX to use TexLive, however. I thought it should be sufficient to put the TexLive bin\win32 folder in the path ahead of MikTex\bin, but that was not sufficient. In LyX itself, the preferences have a path variable in which I must delete MikTeX and replace it with TeXLive. This seems to work within my user account. I'd like to make this change in LyX on a system-wide basis, so that all new users who try LyX will get TeXLive. Know what I mean? Before I tell students who maintain their own PCs, I wonder if there are problems ahead. Do you have some ideas? -- Paul E. Johnson http://pj.freefaculty.org Director, Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis http://crmda.ku.edu To write to me directly, please address me at pauljohn at ku.edu.
