Never mind, I just realized that this installer enables the automatic downloading of missing latex packages. After the first few times of using it, the tex dialog has disappeared. Thanks.
Adrian On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Adrian Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Lyx 1.5.5 (using the alternative windows installer) on a 64-bit > Vista machine. The first time I launched it I noticed that Lyx was not > coming up and this command shell indicating that inittexmf.exe was running > would pop-up every couple of minutes. I let this continue for about 30 > min. and then killed latex manually at which point Lyx then launched. > However, I noticed that none of the document types were available. After > looking into this further, I figured out that MikeTex did not have write > permission to refresh it database. So I gave full control to user on which > Lyx and Miketex were installed, refreshed the dB and launched Lyx. It > seemed to work fine. However, I notice that whenever I reconfigure Lyx or > do an export, the cmd dialog for initexmf.exe keeps popping up. Everything > seems to be working fine, but I am just wondering why this is occuring since > I have not noticed this before on previous versions of Lyx. Thanks. > > Adrian > >
