Rob Saunders published an installation guide for LyXWin: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~rds2/WinLyxsetupnotes.htm
I would correct it to the following:
--------------------------------------------------- >Basic Bits > >1. Download and install all packages from Ruurdâs page â link found at > http://www.lyx.org/ > >Now a few things to install â general rule here is install all direct >onto a root directory and ensure all folders holding the_program.exe >are in your path.
This is unneccesary. Only ImageMagick must be in the PATH, see below.
>2. Install Miktex (follow Ruurdâs link) > >3. Install Ghostscript and Ghost view (follow Ruurdâs link)
You won't need Ghostview/ghostscript when you don't want to look into PostScript (.ps)-files.
>4. Install Acrobat Reader on root path (may have to ignore install >warnings if you already have it installed in program files â leave that >copy there though!) Change folder path to remove any spaces. (My >second copy is installed as C:\Adobe\Reader)
Don't do this! It doesn't matter in which path/folder it is installed. Two installations are one too much and could cause troubles.
>5. Install the latest version of Image magick; At the moment Image >Magick site has pages missing, so I downloaded from >:http://meadowy.org/meadow/dists/snapshot/ImageMagick-i686-pc-windows.exe
I mean, that this one is the version 5.5.6. The actual version 5.5.7 could be downloaded from:
http://www.imagemagick.org/www/archives.html
The ftp-sites listed there, have a folder 'binaries' here you choose the ImageMagick-5.5.7-Q16-windows-dll.exe, here a direct link:
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/graphics/ImageMagick/binaries/ImageMagick-5.5.7-Q16-windows-dll.exe
>The directory holding convert.exe NEEDS to be in your path IN FRONT of >any Windows directories
This is automatically done by the installation process of ImageMagick
>6. Install the latest version of Sed from the sed.exe setup file which >is here: >http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617&package_id=
Here the correct link:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617&package_id=16429
>Rename the old version of sed (I renamed to âoldsedâ) found in >C:\????\lyx\bin > >Ok, that should be the basics in place.
>Fine tuning
>Configure script needs the following changes (for at least lyx up to >1.3.3)
>...
Avoid to edit the configure.bat manually!!!
The "fine tuning" should be done in LyX Preferences->file formats.
E.g. if you want to open a pdf-viewer after using the menu View->PDF(PDFLaTeX), go to Preferences->File Formats, choose the format PDF(PDFLaTeX) and insert the name of the pdfviewer .exe-file in the field 'viewer'. (E.g. write 'acrobat', when you have the full version of Acrobat or 'gsview32' when you want to open the files with ghostview.)
>Prepare for first run
>...
The rest is fine by me. But you could add the following:
When you want LyX to apear with menu names in your language, download the file lyx_intl.rar from Ruurds page and unpack it in the folder where your LyX is installed.
After starting LyX, you will have menues in the Win-system language. To change the menu language, define a new environment variable 'LANG'. E.g. you are working with an italian Windows, but want basque menues, define 'LANG=eu_EU'. How to define environment variables is explained here:
http://www.vrjuggler.org/vrjuggler/2.0-alpha1/getting.started.guide/getting.started.guide/ch02.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I hope I could improve your installation-guide.
regards Uwe
