I appreciate your response and suggestions. In my system I also use TeXLive with WinEdt and at this point I would agree to use even TeXLive with LyX. Change the path in LyX from MiKTeX to TeXLive is sufficient, as you say?
Thank you. 2016-10-29 19:00 GMT+02:00 Paul Johnson <pauljoh...@gmail.com>: > MikTeX server intermittent this morning. It worked on one computer, fails > on other 3. Suspect that server is just flaky. > > There are good arguments for installing TexLive. Its maintained by a > community, not just one person, being the most important among them. Plus, > with TexLive we are consistent across platforms, my Linux workstation and > the Macintosh ones seem same. > > On the machines where I've done both installs, it appears to me that pdf > compile with TexLive is quite a bit faster. Have no idea why, but others > have made same claim. > > TexLive is a surprisingly slow install. Even if you put the whole iso on > disk, and disconnect entirely from the internet, the install takes 1 hour. > I've done it on 3 machines during the night. At first I thought it was > slow because it was trying to pull updates or something, but no. It is > just a slow install. > > Aside from that, it appears fine to me. Make sure texlive/bin/win32 is > put in the path, all can work. Previously installed LyX still looks for > MikTex, but you can make sure LyX knows is supposed to use TeXLive if you > remove LyX and re-install. It will ask which LaTeX to use. Seems like we > ought to have a post-install config setting there, but don't know how. > (PS: don't use the LyX Bundle for LyX). > > Only puzzle I did not work out so far is how to get spell check and other > pieces from LyX bundle to work with LyX installed separately. If the LyX > website pointed at the installers for spellcheckers and JabRef and whatever > comes in bundle, with some install tips, it would be nice. > > Since I don't do Windows much, I ask a lot of stupid questions.... > > > On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Roberto Fanciulli <far...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> By several days the Paul Johnson problem is also my problem and I do not find >> a solution. >> I reinstalled MiKTeX many times, but MiKTeX Package, and MiKTeX Update do >> not work (they do not find any package repository). >> >> [image: Immagine incorporata 1] >> The two alternatives that have remained are: >> 1) uninstall MiKTeX, uninstall and reinstall LyX2.2.2 bundle version (LyX >> -222-Bundle-2.exe) hoping for a successful installation of MiKTeX too; >> 2) setting LyX to TeXLive and forget MiKTeX. >> >> >> Tips for other less drastic solutions already tested? >> >> (My system: LyX2.2.2 with MiKTeX2.9 on Windows 10) >> >> Roberto >> >> 2016-10-29 8:35 GMT+02:00 CarLaTeX <carlatex...@gmail.com>: >> >>> >>> 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-conn >>>> ect-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 >>> >> >> > > > -- > 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. >
