On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> The LyX windows installer SHOULD set the MikTex package install "on >>> the fly" option to NO, >> >> >> No, because then new users would have an incomplete MiKTeX installation >> and their LyX could not provide all its features. > > > I still don't understand why we can't have Miktex to ask to install a > package when needed ? At least we can ask the user if he wants to install > all possible packages and wait half an hour. So many people are put off by > having to wait sooooo long the first time they try LyX. > > Vincent
Dear Vincent: I think you are missing the point that in MikTeX it is a KNOWN bug that the ASK option is broken and it fails to make the menu pop up and ask the user about the packages. Thus, the only way (according to the MikTeX folks) is to use YES or NO on the packages. If you use YES, then the start of lyx as a non privileged user fails. I contend it is because Miktex tries to install packages, the user has no privileges, and the whole thing hangs. It is the same problem described on the LyX wiki about the configure script failing if packages is set to YES. I don't mind waiting, but for me it never never completes. I've waited 24 hours... I'm going to download the installers mentioned 2 messages ago and see what happens. pj -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science Assoc. Director 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 Center for Research Methods University of Kansas University of Kansas http://pj.freefaculty.org http://quant.ku.edu
