2016-10-29 8:09 GMT+02:00 Paul Johnson <pauljoh...@gmail.com>: > 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. >
I'm using LyX (various version, now 2.2.2) with MiKTeX (2.9) on Windows (10) since April 2015 with no problems. Today the site is down but you should only have to wait few hours. Bye! Carla
