On 07/01/2011 12:46 PM, William Hanson wrote:
I've already uninstalled both 1.6.7 and 2.0.0. I reinstalled 2.0 this
morning. During the installation process, a got the error message
"Downloading of MiKTeX failed. (HTTP/1.1 4054 not found."
When you uninstalled LyX, you left MiKTeX alone, right? If so, the LyX
installer should not be trying to download it. Typically the LyX
installer looks for MiKTeX and, if it finds it, asks you whether to use
that version or to download a new one. I'm not sure, but I think the
LyX installer may look for MiKTeX by checking a registry entry, so it's
possible that you're missing the registry entry. (The alternative would
be that the LyX installer would look for latex.exe on the command path,
and we've established it is there.)
I was nevertheless able to continue with the installation process, and
I now have 2.0.0 in Program Files. I can open it, but when I select a
file to work on I get a message which says that the selected document
class "article" requires external files that are not available. (This
is what happened when the problems started ten days ago.)
That's consistent with LyX thinking that you do not have a LaTeX
distribution installed.
I'm unable to execute the stuff you suggest in the message you sent
earlier today. Start>Run>cmd puts me into DOS, but I'm unable to
carry out the recommended steps.
The configuration script does not use the registry (I just checked), so
I think manual configuration should work. The script tries to find
LaTeX by running latex.exe (against a small file), so if the MiKTeX bin
directory is on the system command path, this should succeed. From DOS,
you will need to execute
cd C:\Documents and Settings\<you>\Application Data\lyx20
to get to the user directory, then execute the Python command I supplied
in the last message. If the local directory does not exist (you can
check that with Windows Explorer, or running the command above will tell
you Windows can't find the target directory), execute
mkdir C:\Documents and Settings\<you>\Application Data\lyx20
then the cd line and then the Python command. Of course, in all this
you need to replace <you> with your login id. You may also need to put
the path strings in quotes ("C:\...\lyx20"); I can't remember if that's
necessary, and my XP machine has been retired, but it can't hurt to use
the quotes.
Where do you get stuck trying to do this?
Paul
