[Fwd: Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP]
I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I got exactly the same error. Original Message Nicols wrote Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: [Fwd: Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP]
Richard Brown wrote: I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I got exactly the same error. I think that I would also suggest that an advanced idiot (;-)) doesn't use LyX 1.3.6pre just yet. There are some bugs in the underlyxing Qt/Win Free library that can cause a hard crash. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre#known_bugs Moving on to the specific problem. Can you open a MinSYS console (since you have installed MinSYS) and type: $ cd /c/Program\ Files/LyX/Resources/lyx $ ls Does the file textclass.lst really not exist? Assuming not, type $ sh configure --keep-temps 21 configure.log (You'll need to have Administrator privileges for this to work if you have installed LyX at this location.) This will save all output from the configure script to a file configure.log. Have a look at it with your favourite text editor. Does it tell you anything interesting? You may need to convert the line endings of configure.log from DOS to UNIX style --- notepad gets horribly confused and prints out the entire file as a single line if it has UNIX style line endings. If so, use the attached sed script, so: $ sed -f unix2dos.sed configure.log tmp $ mv -f tmp configure.log Here, of course, configure runs successfully leaving me with all these files: $ ls binddoc lyxrc.defaults texput.log chkconfig.sed examples Makefiletextclass.lst chkconfig.vars help packages.lstui chklayouts.tex imagesreLyX wrap_chkconfig.log clipart kbd scripts wrap_chkconfig.ltx configure.log layouts templates xfonts Let's see what happens for you. Angus -- Anguss/$/ /
[Fwd: Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP]
I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I got exactly the same error. Original Message Nicols wrote Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: [Fwd: Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP]
Richard Brown wrote: I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I got exactly the same error. I think that I would also suggest that an advanced idiot (;-)) doesn't use LyX 1.3.6pre just yet. There are some bugs in the underlyxing Qt/Win Free library that can cause a hard crash. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre#known_bugs Moving on to the specific problem. Can you open a MinSYS console (since you have installed MinSYS) and type: $ cd /c/Program\ Files/LyX/Resources/lyx $ ls Does the file textclass.lst really not exist? Assuming not, type $ sh configure --keep-temps 21 configure.log (You'll need to have Administrator privileges for this to work if you have installed LyX at this location.) This will save all output from the configure script to a file configure.log. Have a look at it with your favourite text editor. Does it tell you anything interesting? You may need to convert the line endings of configure.log from DOS to UNIX style --- notepad gets horribly confused and prints out the entire file as a single line if it has UNIX style line endings. If so, use the attached sed script, so: $ sed -f unix2dos.sed configure.log tmp $ mv -f tmp configure.log Here, of course, configure runs successfully leaving me with all these files: $ ls binddoc lyxrc.defaults texput.log chkconfig.sed examples Makefiletextclass.lst chkconfig.vars help packages.lstui chklayouts.tex imagesreLyX wrap_chkconfig.log clipart kbd scripts wrap_chkconfig.ltx configure.log layouts templates xfonts Let's see what happens for you. Angus -- Anguss/$/ /
[Fwd: Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP]
I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I got exactly the same error. Original Message Nicolàs wrote Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Richard Brown wrote: > Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is > advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. > I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all > sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first > attempt to run lyx I got this error message: > > LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description > > Check the contents of teh file “textclass.lst” > Sorry, has to exit > > > The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, > and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: [Fwd: Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP]
Richard Brown wrote: > I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I > got exactly the same error. I think that I would also suggest that an "advanced idiot" (;-)) doesn't use LyX 1.3.6pre just yet. There are some bugs in the underlyxing Qt/Win Free library that can cause a hard crash. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre#known_bugs Moving on to the specific problem. Can you open a MinSYS console (since you have installed MinSYS) and type: $ cd /c/Program\ Files/LyX/Resources/lyx $ ls Does the file "textclass.lst" really not exist? Assuming not, type $ sh configure --keep-temps 2>&1 > configure.log (You'll need to have Administrator privileges for this to work if you have installed LyX at this location.) This will save all output from the configure script to a file configure.log. Have a look at it with your favourite text editor. Does it tell you anything interesting? You may need to convert the line endings of configure.log from DOS to UNIX style --- notepad gets horribly confused and prints out the entire file as a single line if it has UNIX style line endings. If so, use the attached sed script, so: $ sed -f unix2dos.sed configure.log > tmp $ mv -f tmp configure.log Here, of course, configure runs successfully leaving me with all these files: $ ls binddoc lyxrc.defaults texput.log chkconfig.sed examples Makefiletextclass.lst chkconfig.vars help packages.lstui chklayouts.tex imagesreLyX wrap_chkconfig.log clipart kbd scripts wrap_chkconfig.ltx configure.log layouts templates xfonts Let's see what happens for you. Angus -- Anguss/$/ /
