Hi all, > I was getting this error after installing with the Standard Web > Installer available at <http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows> on XP > Professional. > > My home directory is on C:\. The file textclass.lst was being created > but only contained a comment. > > Various combinations of running configure.py, deleting the settings > folder and reinstalling did not help. > > What worked was running configure.py with the option > --without-latex-config. Then a default textclass.lst was generated. >
ok. That happened. > Lyx would now run but did not have any text classes. > No. This didn't happen. That's a hard lesson getting started with lyx on windows... Thomas > While Lyx was running, I ran configure.py again. This time not using > the --without-latex-config option. configure.py took much longer to > run and its output showed it was finding a lot of text classes which > it wrote to textclass.lst > > I restarted Lyx and everything seems to be working :) > > I hope this helps someone... > > Richard > -- Dr. Thomas Sauter Systems Biology Institute for System Dynamics University of Stuttgart, Germany http://www.isys.uni-stuttgart.de/~sauter/
