Paul A. Rubin schrieb:
This is the a problem of the used MiKTeX package repository or your
internet connection. Does it go faster when you manually select
another package repository in MiKTeX's options and then reconfigure LyX?
What about my question?
I can't test this without uninstalling/reinstalling LyX. When I run
reconfigure from inside LyX, it either does not look for all the missing
LaTeX packages or else does so by a method other than trying to compile
a test document using that class.
No, it doesn't matter from where you run the script. When the "Install missing packages on the fly"
option is set to "ask me" or "yes", MiKTeX will get active.
Please note, though, that when I ran the installer I had MikTeX's
"Install missing packages on-the-fly" option set to 'No'.
The installer sets it back to "yes" while installing to assure that the first configuration installs
all packages needed by LyX. You can reset this later.
So latex
should have failed on the test documents using missing classes without
any attempt to go to the Internet.
There won't be a fail, the configure script still prints out if a package could
be found or not.
So the only thing I could help you is to recommand to update your MiKTeX using its update manager.
If this doesn't help, chosse another package repository, if this doesn't help, turn off the internet
and try if the needed time is now shorter. If also the offline test isn't successfull, there must be
a problem with MiKTeX 2.6 - but for me it works as fast as always.
regards Uwe
