Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Hello everyone, I recently reinstalled my windows and thus had to reinstall Miktex and Lyx. For an obscure reason Lyx (even the new version 1.7) doesn't want to work anymore because it can't use latex. Miktex 2.4 is well configured (TexnicCenter works) and latex is in my PATH : $ latex This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) ** Running configure, it appears that Lyx doesn't find a proper latex : $ ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for latex... not useable +checking for latex2e... no I have already seen this message on the internet (including this mailing list) but it was on Linux systems and the answers were more than fuzzy about the origin of the problem. Is that because Miktex now uses e-tex and Lyx wants Latex2e ? Is there something that should be in my PATH that isn't yet ? I really don't understand what I have done wrong because both Miktex and Lyx are freshly installed. Thanks in advance, Kevin
Re: Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Kevin Frugier wrote: I recently reinstalled my windows and thus had to reinstall Miktex and Lyx. For an obscure reason Lyx (even the new version 1.7) doesn't want to work anymore because it can't use latex. $ ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for latex... not useable +checking for latex2e... no Is that because Miktex now uses e-tex and Lyx wants Latex2e? No! e-TeX is an extension of TeX and therefore also LaTeX2e. Is there something that should be in my PATH that isn't yet? Also no. The only problem I could think of is that MiKTeX leaves old entries in the PATH when it is uninstalled. But you used a fresh Windows. I don't know what happens on your system, but I know that it will work when you deinstall MiKTeX and other third party programs and reinstall LyX (and automatically MiKTeX) using the complete Version of my LyX-installer ;-): http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller http://download.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyXWin137Complete-1-0.exe regards Uwe
Re: Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Thank you. An other user who didn't replied to the whole list also mentioned that your installer might work better and it did. Thank you very much. Kevin PS : by the way, when downloading from the ftp, it says the file is corrupt, whereas from the http it's ok Uwe Stöhr a écrit : Kevin Frugier wrote: I recently reinstalled my windows and thus had to reinstall Miktex and Lyx. For an obscure reason Lyx (even the new version 1.7) doesn't want to work anymore because it can't use latex. $ ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for latex... not useable +checking for latex2e... no Is that because Miktex now uses e-tex and Lyx wants Latex2e? No! e-TeX is an extension of TeX and therefore also LaTeX2e. Is there something that should be in my PATH that isn't yet? Also no. The only problem I could think of is that MiKTeX leaves old entries in the PATH when it is uninstalled. But you used a fresh Windows. I don't know what happens on your system, but I know that it will work when you deinstall MiKTeX and other third party programs and reinstall LyX (and automatically MiKTeX) using the complete Version of my LyX-installer ;-): http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller http://download.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyXWin137Complete-1-0.exe regards Uwe
Re: Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Kevin Frugier wrote: An other user who didn't replied to the whole list also mentioned that your installer might work better and it did. Good to hear that it works for you. PS : by the way, when downloading from the ftp, it says the file is corrupt, whereas from the http it's ok Known problem, ftp.lyx.org is at the moment not reachable for us to correct the broken file. regards Uwe
Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Hello everyone, I recently reinstalled my windows and thus had to reinstall Miktex and Lyx. For an obscure reason Lyx (even the new version 1.7) doesn't want to work anymore because it can't use latex. Miktex 2.4 is well configured (TexnicCenter works) and latex is in my PATH : $ latex This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) ** Running configure, it appears that Lyx doesn't find a proper latex : $ ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for latex... not useable +checking for latex2e... no I have already seen this message on the internet (including this mailing list) but it was on Linux systems and the answers were more than fuzzy about the origin of the problem. Is that because Miktex now uses e-tex and Lyx wants Latex2e ? Is there something that should be in my PATH that isn't yet ? I really don't understand what I have done wrong because both Miktex and Lyx are freshly installed. Thanks in advance, Kevin
Re: Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Kevin Frugier wrote: I recently reinstalled my windows and thus had to reinstall Miktex and Lyx. For an obscure reason Lyx (even the new version 1.7) doesn't want to work anymore because it can't use latex. $ ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for latex... not useable +checking for latex2e... no Is that because Miktex now uses e-tex and Lyx wants Latex2e? No! e-TeX is an extension of TeX and therefore also LaTeX2e. Is there something that should be in my PATH that isn't yet? Also no. The only problem I could think of is that MiKTeX leaves old entries in the PATH when it is uninstalled. But you used a fresh Windows. I don't know what happens on your system, but I know that it will work when you deinstall MiKTeX and other third party programs and reinstall LyX (and automatically MiKTeX) using the complete Version of my LyX-installer ;-): http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller http://download.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyXWin137Complete-1-0.exe regards Uwe
Re: Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Thank you. An other user who didn't replied to the whole list also mentioned that your installer might work better and it did. Thank you very much. Kevin PS : by the way, when downloading from the ftp, it says the file is corrupt, whereas from the http it's ok Uwe Stöhr a écrit : Kevin Frugier wrote: I recently reinstalled my windows and thus had to reinstall Miktex and Lyx. For an obscure reason Lyx (even the new version 1.7) doesn't want to work anymore because it can't use latex. $ ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for latex... not useable +checking for latex2e... no Is that because Miktex now uses e-tex and Lyx wants Latex2e? No! e-TeX is an extension of TeX and therefore also LaTeX2e. Is there something that should be in my PATH that isn't yet? Also no. The only problem I could think of is that MiKTeX leaves old entries in the PATH when it is uninstalled. But you used a fresh Windows. I don't know what happens on your system, but I know that it will work when you deinstall MiKTeX and other third party programs and reinstall LyX (and automatically MiKTeX) using the complete Version of my LyX-installer ;-): http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller http://download.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyXWin137Complete-1-0.exe regards Uwe
Re: Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Kevin Frugier wrote: An other user who didn't replied to the whole list also mentioned that your installer might work better and it did. Good to hear that it works for you. PS : by the way, when downloading from the ftp, it says the file is corrupt, whereas from the http it's ok Known problem, ftp.lyx.org is at the moment not reachable for us to correct the broken file. regards Uwe
Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Hello everyone, I recently reinstalled my windows and thus had to reinstall Miktex and Lyx. For an obscure reason Lyx (even the new version 1.7) doesn't want to work anymore because it can't use latex. Miktex 2.4 is well configured (TexnicCenter works) and latex is in my PATH : $ latex This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) ** Running configure, it appears that Lyx doesn't find a proper latex : $ ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for "latex"... not useable +checking for "latex2e"... no I have already seen this message on the internet (including this mailing list) but it was on Linux systems and the answers were more than fuzzy about the origin of the problem. Is that because Miktex now uses e-tex and Lyx wants Latex2e ? Is there something that should be in my PATH that isn't yet ? I really don't understand what I have done wrong because both Miktex and Lyx are freshly installed. Thanks in advance, Kevin
Re: Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Kevin Frugier wrote: I recently reinstalled my windows and thus had to reinstall Miktex and Lyx. For an obscure reason Lyx (even the new version 1.7) doesn't want to work anymore because it can't use latex. $ ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for "latex"... not useable +checking for "latex2e"... no Is that because Miktex now uses e-tex and Lyx wants Latex2e? No! e-TeX is an extension of TeX and therefore also LaTeX2e. Is there something that should be in my PATH that isn't yet? Also no. The only problem I could think of is that MiKTeX leaves old entries in the PATH when it is uninstalled. But you used a fresh Windows. I don't know what happens on your system, but I know that it will work when you deinstall MiKTeX and other third party programs and reinstall LyX (and automatically MiKTeX) using the complete Version of my LyX-installer ;-): http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller http://download.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyXWin137Complete-1-0.exe regards Uwe
Re: Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Thank you. An other user who didn't replied to the whole list also mentioned that your installer might work better and it did. Thank you very much. Kevin PS : by the way, when downloading from the ftp, it says the file is corrupt, whereas from the http it's ok Uwe Stöhr a écrit : Kevin Frugier wrote: I recently reinstalled my windows and thus had to reinstall Miktex and Lyx. For an obscure reason Lyx (even the new version 1.7) doesn't want to work anymore because it can't use latex. $ ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for "latex"... not useable +checking for "latex2e"... no Is that because Miktex now uses e-tex and Lyx wants Latex2e? No! e-TeX is an extension of TeX and therefore also LaTeX2e. Is there something that should be in my PATH that isn't yet? Also no. The only problem I could think of is that MiKTeX leaves old entries in the PATH when it is uninstalled. But you used a fresh Windows. I don't know what happens on your system, but I know that it will work when you deinstall MiKTeX and other third party programs and reinstall LyX (and automatically MiKTeX) using the complete Version of my LyX-installer ;-): http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller http://download.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyXWin137Complete-1-0.exe regards Uwe
Re: Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Kevin Frugier wrote: An other user who didn't replied to the whole list also mentioned that your installer might work better and it did. Good to hear that it works for you. PS : by the way, when downloading from the ftp, it says the file is corrupt, whereas from the http it's ok Known problem, ftp.lyx.org is at the moment not reachable for us to correct the broken file. regards Uwe
