Hi David, Thanks for your very helpful insights. In my case I did what I thought was a complete re-install of Cygwin, only to find later that Python was not included.
By The Way my system *already* had a working Python installed in c:\python22, but there seemed to be no way that I could find to have LyX recognise the location of the pre-installed Python. To make matters more interesting, my autoexec.bat and unix path inluded a path to the Python binary, and in both Windows and Cygwin bash shell, I had no problem running Python. My solution to this problem was annoyingly to re-install Python using Cygwin using Setup.exe This observation ... that many of the packages required by LyX may already be on the system, eg Perl, Python, ... should mean that there are some kind of configuation settings that lead LyX to use them, rather than look in Cygwin. (But maybe I just don't know where the config parameters are for the system.) It would be very good if your comments could be included in Clauses web pages (which are good also) ... Thanks Regards Goffredo > > From: "David A. Case" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: installing LyX on cygwin (addendum) > Date: 11/03/2003 10:43:18 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2003, David A. Case wrote: > > > here is a thumbnail sketch of what to do for a "more simple" install, > > .oops...I forgot to have the user start the X-window manager: > > > > > d. Start a cygwin shell (double-click on the "cygwin" icon) and type "lyx &" > > corrected: use the startxwin.bat file in /usr/X11R6/bin, then start LyX > as above; OR use the scripts mentioned in item 10 of Claus' web page. > > As a general note, it's probably worth your while to experiment a little > in general with cygwin (such as running an xterm and other simple X-programs) > before trying LyX, which requires a lot of things to be there to work > correctly. That way, you will be in a better position to fix the other > things I have forgotten :-) > > ...dac > > > This message was sent through MyMail http://www.mymail.com.au
