Richard Brown wrote:
Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot,
The "advanced" part puts you one up on me. :-)
so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file “textclass.lst” Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Are you saying that textclass.lst is in the bin directory?? Did you start LyX from the bin directory? Is packages.lst in the bin directory as well (and does it have non-zero length)?
The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx
Just to confirm your directory structure, lyx.exe is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin, right?
I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space.
AFAIK, LyX and all helper programs are completely agnostic with respect to the processor. You're a brave soul to run XP Pro on a system with only 128MB of RAM, though. (But that doesn't account for the problem at hand.)
I'm with the others on this thread -- I'd stick with LyX 1.3.5 for now, rather than become an alpha tester for 1.3.6.
FYI, LyX creates a variety of files (including textclass.lst) in your "home" directory (which is either the directory from which it is started or the directory specified in Edit | Preferences | Paths | Working directory (once you get into LyX and set some preferences). It also creates a subdirectory tree under that directory. To minimize clutter, if for no other reason, I'd advise creating a base document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\documents) and starting it from there. I don't know any reason why it would have trouble finding textclass.lst in the bin directory if that's where it was started, but then I've never tried that (and don't intend to).
-- Paul
