Did I read somewhere once that one can have a local MikTeX server (some form of a mirror) so that can be done under controlled condition and then the local user(s) pull off of that one?
el On 2011-03-28 15:13 , Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2011-03-28, Pavel Sanda wrote: >> Guenter Milde wrote: > >>>>> This is not necessary. Either you install MikTeX (assuming you are >>>>> talking about windows) separately, or you can download the >>>>> installer-bundle (IIRC this includes MikTeX). > >>>> the problem is that some styles/classes are downloaded by miktex itself >>>> and by default miktex tries to update things as well iirc. > >>> But, AFAIK, this can be turned off in the configuration. > >> but then not all default examples/templates will be compilable by lyx? > > The behaviour would be like with TeXLive: only installed document classes > and packages are supported. > > examples/templates for documents requiring a non-installed package/class > will fail - again as with TeXLive. > > Günter > >