I don't remember doing anything to MiKTeX when I reinstalled 2.0.0 this morning. And MiKTeX still appears at C:\Documents and Settings\whanson\Local Settings\Application Data\MiKTeX 2.7.
I cannot execute cmd C:\Documents and Settings\<you>\Application Data\lyx20. When I try I get "Application is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file." Could this be because my DOS prompt always comes up as C:\Documents and Settings\whanson> I'm unable to get rid of the ">", and when I put "\" after it and try to continue, I get the error message. And I'm unable to get the DOS prompt back to just plain C:\. Maybe I've forgotten something really simple about DOS. Bill On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Paul A. Rubin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
