My installation is lyx-qt 1.3.3win32 and miktex 2.4 on win98 (first edition)
After changing the the .bat-files which try to call the none existent directories "~p0" I did get to work.
After manual reconfigure and spreading the resulting files and the .lyx-dir to home and share/lyx/ directories, I got a simple hello world on the screen with the dvi viewer yap.
But: reconfigure does not work. There are no TEX-classes, style files... So I can't do any serious work. Old lyxfiles are not recognized. "not a lyx file"
I am at the end of my knowledge and I do not know how to go further.
Is there anybody out there who can give me hints/links, where and how to get a working lyx on win32 win98? What is the recommended configuration for win98? Are there any restrictions on the directory names?
Thanks
Michael Hartje
The port comes with a shell emulator (sh.exe) and various command line tools, including sed.exe. There are problems with the configuration script, the biggest of which is that the version of sed you got is out of date and in particular cannot digest Windows-style end of line characters (CR+LF). The solution for that part of the puzzle is to download sed 4.0.7 or later from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/, and replace the copy in the LyX bin directory with the new one. I think that will cure the problem of LyX claiming you have no class files.
Rob Saunders has a page about installing LyX on Win XP at http://www.soton.ac.uk/~rds2/WinLyxsetupnotes.htm, which is also available (possibly more up to date) in the LyX Wiki at http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup. Most of this also applies to Win 98.
Good luck!
-- Paul
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