Sorry, it appears that if you've installed to C:\Program Files\..., then
you will have the same problem: There is a space in the pathname. So you
need to install (for now) to a directory with no spaces at all. We'll
fix this for 2.3.1.

Riki


On 07/26/2018 10:54 AM, Yu Jin wrote:
> can you explain please what you mean with "a clean user directory"
>
> 2018-07-26 16:40 GMT+02:00 Richard Kimberly Heck <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>
>     On 07/26/2018 10:24 AM, Yu Jin wrote:
>>     hmm, I tryed to install into "Lyx" too, but it still does not
>>     work for me, it says:
>>     "an error occurred while running:
>>     tex2lyx2.3 -f 'test.tex' 'test.lyx'"
>
>     You may also need a clean user directory.
>
>     Riki
>
>
>>
>>
>>     2018-07-26 3:35 GMT+02:00 Richard Kimberly Heck <[email protected]
>>     <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>>
>>         On 07/24/2018 02:03 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>>         > On 07/24/2018 11:25 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>>         >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 02:02:04PM +0000, Yu Jin wrote:
>>         >>> Is it just me or is the latex import completely broken?
>>         >>> Cant get it to import anything, even the most
>>         minimalistic documents.
>>         >>> It just says:
>>         >>> An error occurred while running: ..."
>>         >>>
>>         >>> Windows 2.3 Installer-005
>>         >> Dear Yu Jin,
>>         >>
>>         >> I wonder if the bug you're seeing is the following, which
>>         will be fixed
>>         >> in LyX 2.3.1 (which will be released soon):
>>         >>
>>         >>   https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9139
>>         <https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9139>
>>         > It's possible that this is due to changes in the location
>>         of binaries, or their names, or some such. I had a hard time
>>         duplicating aspects of that. I thought I'd fixed it all, but
>>         perhaps not. I'll check.
>>
>>         The problem seems to be that there is a space in the
>>         directory name
>>         where LyX is installed. When I install into "LyX" rather than
>>         "LyX 2.3",
>>         it works fine.
>>
>>         This seems like a bug in LyX itself, though I'll change this
>>         in the next
>>         installer.
>>
>>         Riki
>>
>>
>
>

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