Re: Fwd: installing lyx on windows 7

2011-02-14 Thread Joost Verburg
On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:32:24 -0600, Saras Saraswathi wrote: I tried to install the lyx. I installed under windows 7 on two laptops. One works ( a borrowed laptop) . But it does not work on my own laptop. I used the same downloaded sw on both. As discussed on the webpage, looks like it cannot

Re: Fwd: installing lyx on windows 7

2011-02-14 Thread saras
Joost Verburg joost at lyx.org writes: On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:32:24 -0600, Saras Saraswathi wrote: I tried to install the lyx. I installed under windows 7 on two laptops. One works ( a borrowed laptop) ...discussed on the webpage, According to the screenshots, one of the

Re: Fwd: installing lyx on windows 7

2011-02-14 Thread Joost Verburg
On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:32:24 -0600, Saras Saraswathi wrote: I tried to install the lyx. I installed under windows 7 on two laptops. One works ( a borrowed laptop) . But it does not work on my own laptop. I used the same downloaded sw on both. As discussed on the webpage, looks like it cannot

Re: Fwd: installing lyx on windows 7

2011-02-14 Thread saras
Joost Verburg joost at lyx.org writes: On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:32:24 -0600, Saras Saraswathi wrote: I tried to install the lyx. I installed under windows 7 on two laptops. One works ( a borrowed laptop) ...discussed on the webpage, According to the screenshots, one of the

Re: Fwd: installing lyx on windows 7

2011-02-14 Thread Joost Verburg
On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:32:24 -0600, Saras Saraswathi wrote: >>> I tried to install the lyx. I installed under windows 7 on two laptops. >>> One works ( a borrowed laptop) . But it does not work on my own laptop. I >>> used the same downloaded sw on both. As discussed on the webpage, looks like >>>

Re: Fwd: installing lyx on windows 7

2011-02-14 Thread saras
Joost Verburg lyx.org> writes: > > On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:32:24 -0600, Saras Saraswathi wrote: > >>> I tried to install the lyx. I installed under windows 7 on two laptops. > >>> One works ( a borrowed laptop) ...discussed on the webpage, > > According to the screenshots, one of

problems installing lyx on windows vista

2007-02-07 Thread Tino Langer
Hello, I just tried to install lyx on my windows vista. The first problem was to install miketex out of the bundle-installer of lyx 1.4.3-5 (lyx-143-5-bundle.exe ) - an Windows API error occurs. a workaround for this problem was to install miktex 2.5 stand alone and refer to the existing

Re: problems installing lyx on windows vista

2007-02-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tino Langer schrieb: I just tried to install lyx on my windows vista. The first problem was to install miketex out of the bundle-installer of lyx 1.4.3-5 (lyx-143-5-bundle.exe ) - an Windows API error occurs. a workaround for this problem was to install miktex 2.5 stand alone and refer to the

RE: problems installing lyx on windows vista

2007-02-07 Thread Tino Langer
The MiKTeX shipped with the last installer is not Vista-ready. The next LyX version comes out next week with an updated MiKTeX version. Note that there are stil some restrictions to use MiKTeX under Vista: http://dojo.miktex.org/blogs/christian_schenk/archive/2007/01/22/miktex25vis ta.aspx ok -

problems installing lyx on windows vista

2007-02-07 Thread Tino Langer
Hello, I just tried to install lyx on my windows vista. The first problem was to install miketex out of the bundle-installer of lyx 1.4.3-5 (lyx-143-5-bundle.exe ) - an Windows API error occurs. a workaround for this problem was to install miktex 2.5 stand alone and refer to the existing

Re: problems installing lyx on windows vista

2007-02-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tino Langer schrieb: I just tried to install lyx on my windows vista. The first problem was to install miketex out of the bundle-installer of lyx 1.4.3-5 (lyx-143-5-bundle.exe ) - an Windows API error occurs. a workaround for this problem was to install miktex 2.5 stand alone and refer to the

RE: problems installing lyx on windows vista

2007-02-07 Thread Tino Langer
The MiKTeX shipped with the last installer is not Vista-ready. The next LyX version comes out next week with an updated MiKTeX version. Note that there are stil some restrictions to use MiKTeX under Vista: http://dojo.miktex.org/blogs/christian_schenk/archive/2007/01/22/miktex25vis ta.aspx ok -

problems installing lyx on windows vista

2007-02-07 Thread Tino Langer
Hello, I just tried to install lyx on my windows vista. The first problem was to install miketex out of the bundle-installer of lyx 1.4.3-5 (lyx-143-5-bundle.exe ) - an Windows API error occurs. a workaround for this problem was to install miktex 2.5 stand alone and refer to the existing

Re: problems installing lyx on windows vista

2007-02-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tino Langer schrieb: I just tried to install lyx on my windows vista. The first problem was to install miketex out of the bundle-installer of lyx 1.4.3-5 (lyx-143-5-bundle.exe ) - an Windows API error occurs. a workaround for this problem was to install miktex 2.5 stand alone and refer to the

RE: problems installing lyx on windows vista

2007-02-07 Thread Tino Langer
The MiKTeX shipped with the last installer is not Vista-ready. The next LyX version comes out next week with an updated MiKTeX version. Note that there are stil some restrictions to use MiKTeX under Vista: http://dojo.miktex.org/blogs/christian_schenk/archive/2007/01/22/miktex25vis ta.aspx ok -

Missing textclass problem while installing LyX under Windows hopefully fixed

2007-02-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, in the last weeks many users had the problem that after installing LyX on Windows, LyX couldn't be started, only the error message Missing textclass.lst is displayed. There was a bug in MIKTeX so that LyX's configuration script wasn't correctly finished when no internet

Missing textclass problem while installing LyX under Windows hopefully fixed

2007-02-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, in the last weeks many users had the problem that after installing LyX on Windows, LyX couldn't be started, only the error message Missing textclass.lst is displayed. There was a bug in MIKTeX so that LyX's configuration script wasn't correctly finished when no internet

Missing textclass problem while installing LyX under Windows hopefully fixed

2007-02-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, in the last weeks many users had the problem that after installing LyX on Windows, LyX couldn't be started, only the error message "Missing textclass.lst" is displayed. There was a bug in MIKTeX so that LyX's configuration script wasn't correctly finished when no

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-03 Thread Stephen Harris
Eric Inazaki wrote: Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8/2/06, Eric Inazaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in C:\Program Files directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. This happened to me on my first installation

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-03 Thread Stephen Harris
Eric Inazaki wrote: Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8/2/06, Eric Inazaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in C:\Program Files directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. This happened to me on my first installation

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-03 Thread Stephen Harris
Eric Inazaki wrote: Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On 8/2/06, Eric Inazaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in "C:\Program Files" directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. This happened to me on my first

installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Eric Inazaki
Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in C:\Program Files directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. This happened to me on my first installation attempt. I tried reinstalling to C:\ and that works okay. Looking through some of these older messages, it

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eric Inazaki wrote: Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in C:\Program Files directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. No, it works fine from C:\Program Files\... This happened to me on my first installation attempt. I tried reinstalling to C:\ and

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Bo Peng
On 8/2/06, Eric Inazaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in C:\Program Files directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. This happened to me on my first installation attempt. I tried reinstalling to C:\ and that works okay.

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Eric Inazaki
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric Inazaki wrote: Did it give you a message about not finding class files? There have been instances where LyX installed properly but the configuration script failed, and subsequently LyX would not start because it could not find the

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Eric Inazaki
Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8/2/06, Eric Inazaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in C:\Program Files directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. This happened to me on my first installation attempt. I

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eric Inazaki wrote: Did it give you a message about not finding class files? There have been instances where LyX installed properly but the configuration script failed, and subsequently LyX would not start because it could not find the requisite configuration information. (But it would at

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Bo Peng
Right after I installed lyx, it spent a lot of time downloading stuff. Lyx is checking for some classes, miktex does not have them so it installs them automatically. 1.4.3 will give you more prompt information, but this process will take the same long time. Windows being Windows, the most

installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Eric Inazaki
Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in C:\Program Files directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. This happened to me on my first installation attempt. I tried reinstalling to C:\ and that works okay. Looking through some of these older messages, it

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eric Inazaki wrote: Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in C:\Program Files directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. No, it works fine from C:\Program Files\... This happened to me on my first installation attempt. I tried reinstalling to C:\ and

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Bo Peng
On 8/2/06, Eric Inazaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in C:\Program Files directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. This happened to me on my first installation attempt. I tried reinstalling to C:\ and that works okay.

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Eric Inazaki
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric Inazaki wrote: Did it give you a message about not finding class files? There have been instances where LyX installed properly but the configuration script failed, and subsequently LyX would not start because it could not find the

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Eric Inazaki
Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8/2/06, Eric Inazaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in C:\Program Files directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. This happened to me on my first installation attempt. I

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eric Inazaki wrote: Did it give you a message about not finding class files? There have been instances where LyX installed properly but the configuration script failed, and subsequently LyX would not start because it could not find the requisite configuration information. (But it would at

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Bo Peng
Right after I installed lyx, it spent a lot of time downloading stuff. Lyx is checking for some classes, miktex does not have them so it installs them automatically. 1.4.3 will give you more prompt information, but this process will take the same long time. Windows being Windows, the most

installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Eric Inazaki
Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in "C:\Program Files" directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. This happened to me on my first installation attempt. I tried reinstalling to "C:\" and that works okay. Looking through some of these older messages,

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eric Inazaki wrote: Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in "C:\Program Files" directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. No, it works fine from C:\Program Files\... This happened to me on my first installation attempt. I tried reinstalling to "C:\"

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Bo Peng
On 8/2/06, Eric Inazaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in "C:\Program Files" directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. This happened to me on my first installation attempt. I tried reinstalling to "C:\" and that works

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Eric Inazaki
Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Eric Inazaki wrote: > > Did it give you a message about not finding class files? There have > been instances where LyX installed properly but the configuration script > failed, and subsequently LyX would not start because it could not find > the

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Eric Inazaki
Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 8/2/06, Eric Inazaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in > > "C:\Program Files" directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and > > Windows 2000, by the way. This happened to me on my first > > installation

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eric Inazaki wrote: Did it give you a message about not finding class files? There have been instances where LyX installed properly but the configuration script failed, and subsequently LyX would not start because it could not find the requisite configuration information. (But it would at

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Bo Peng
> Right after I installed lyx, it spent a lot of time downloading stuff. Lyx is checking for some classes, miktex does not have them so it installs them automatically. 1.4.3 will give you more prompt information, but this process will take the same long time. Windows being Windows, the most

Installing Lyx on Windows: pb with Python (or msys?)

2005-11-16 Thread mel b
Hi all, I am using lyx for a while on windows, and decided today to try the new, supported ! , windows version. I uninstalled my lyx version the best I could, and followed the instructions on the Lyx Wiki. Everything seemed fine until I launch lyx. Then, while lyx was configuring, just after the

Re: Installing Lyx on Windows: pb with Python (or msys?)

2005-11-16 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 22:44, mel b wrote: and the message is an ImportError for the os module. This is an indication that something is wrong with your python installation. I am not saying that this is the only problem or the cause of the others, but this should not happen in a normal

Installing Lyx on Windows: pb with Python (or msys?)

2005-11-16 Thread mel b
Hi all, I am using lyx for a while on windows, and decided today to try the new, supported ! , windows version. I uninstalled my lyx version the best I could, and followed the instructions on the Lyx Wiki. Everything seemed fine until I launch lyx. Then, while lyx was configuring, just after the

Re: Installing Lyx on Windows: pb with Python (or msys?)

2005-11-16 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 22:44, mel b wrote: and the message is an ImportError for the os module. This is an indication that something is wrong with your python installation. I am not saying that this is the only problem or the cause of the others, but this should not happen in a normal

Installing Lyx on Windows: pb with Python (or msys?)

2005-11-16 Thread mel b
Hi all, I am using lyx for a while on windows, and decided today to try the new, supported ! , windows version. I uninstalled my lyx version the best I could, and followed the instructions on the Lyx Wiki. Everything seemed fine until I launch lyx. Then, while lyx was configuring, just after the

Re: Installing Lyx on Windows: pb with Python (or msys?)

2005-11-16 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 22:44, mel b wrote: > and the message is an ImportError for the os module. This is an indication that something is wrong with your python installation. I am not saying that this is the only problem or the cause of the others, but this should not happen in a

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-12 Thread Richard Brown
Hello Paul, and all the others who gave suugestions as well Thanks for the marvellous level of support - way beyond anything I've ever experienced with commercial software - as well as encouragement. The problem seems to have been the old version of sed, as well as an empty version of

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-12 Thread Richard Brown
Hello Paul, and all the others who gave suugestions as well Thanks for the marvellous level of support - way beyond anything I've ever experienced with commercial software - as well as encouragement. The problem seems to have been the old version of sed, as well as an empty version of

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-12 Thread Richard Brown
Hello Paul, and all the others who gave suugestions as well Thanks for the marvellous level of support - way beyond anything I've ever experienced with commercial software - as well as encouragement. The problem seems to have been the old version of sed, as well as an empty version of

Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Richard Brown
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

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Nicolás
Hei! 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 If you are already using the installer for version 1.3.6, be sure it is the last version (i.e. v.12). The

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nicols a crit: 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 Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Uwe Sthr wrote: accents don't work. Uwe, don't the accents work in general or only in the workarea? I.e., do they work in the dialog widgets? Jrgen

[Fwd: Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP]

2005-06-11 Thread Richard Brown
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

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Nicolás
Sorry! I guess you are right Uwe. It is just that I am using v1.3.6 without problems (at least no more than those v1.3.5 has), so therefore I recommended it. But again, you are right, for me works ok, but for other people, using other features than those I use, it may give problems. Uwe Sthr

Re: [Fwd: Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP]

2005-06-11 Thread Angus Leeming
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

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, The advanced part puts you one up on me. :-) 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

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Richard Brown
Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man,

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Richard Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which

Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Richard Brown
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

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Nicolás
Hei! 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 If you are already using the installer for version 1.3.6, be sure it is the last version (i.e. v.12). The

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nicols a crit: 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 Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Uwe Sthr wrote: accents don't work. Uwe, don't the accents work in general or only in the workarea? I.e., do they work in the dialog widgets? Jrgen

[Fwd: Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP]

2005-06-11 Thread Richard Brown
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

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Nicolás
Sorry! I guess you are right Uwe. It is just that I am using v1.3.6 without problems (at least no more than those v1.3.5 has), so therefore I recommended it. But again, you are right, for me works ok, but for other people, using other features than those I use, it may give problems. Uwe Sthr

Re: [Fwd: Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP]

2005-06-11 Thread Angus Leeming
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

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, The advanced part puts you one up on me. :-) 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

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Richard Brown
Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man,

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Richard Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which

Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Richard Brown
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

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Nicolás
Hei! 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 If you are already using the installer for version 1.3.6, be sure it is the last version (i.e. v.12). The

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nicolás a écrit: 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 Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > accents don't work. Uwe, don't the accents work in general or only in the workarea? I.e., do they work in the dialog widgets? Jürgen

[Fwd: Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP]

2005-06-11 Thread Richard Brown
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

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Nicolás
Sorry! I guess you are right Uwe. It is just that I am using v1.3.6 without problems (at least no more than those v1.3.5 has), so therefore I recommended it. But again, you are right, for me works ok, but for other people, using other features than those I use, it may give problems. Uwe Stöhr

Re: [Fwd: Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP]

2005-06-11 Thread Angus Leeming
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

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, The "advanced" part puts you one up on me. :-) 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

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Richard Brown
Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man,

Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP

2005-06-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Richard Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which

problem installing Lyx on Windows XP

2002-02-09 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi, I setup Windows XP on my computer (clean install) and so had to setup Lyx again. However, when I try starting the Cygwin setup program from the LyxInstall directory, it goes till the root directory (C:/cygwin) question and then the local package directory (C:/LyxInstall) and then crashes and

Re: problem installing Lyx on Windows XP

2002-02-09 Thread David Case
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: I setup Windows XP on my computer (clean install) and so had to setup Lyx again. However, when I try starting the Cygwin setup program from the LyxInstall directory, it goes till the root directory (C:/cygwin) question and then the local

problem installing Lyx on Windows XP

2002-02-09 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi, I setup Windows XP on my computer (clean install) and so had to setup Lyx again. However, when I try starting the Cygwin setup program from the LyxInstall directory, it goes till the root directory (C:/cygwin) question and then the local package directory (C:/LyxInstall) and then crashes and

Re: problem installing Lyx on Windows XP

2002-02-09 Thread David Case
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: I setup Windows XP on my computer (clean install) and so had to setup Lyx again. However, when I try starting the Cygwin setup program from the LyxInstall directory, it goes till the root directory (C:/cygwin) question and then the local

problem installing Lyx on Windows XP

2002-02-09 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi, I setup Windows XP on my computer (clean install) and so had to setup Lyx again. However, when I try starting the Cygwin setup program from the LyxInstall directory, it goes till the root directory (C:/cygwin) question and then the local package directory (C:/LyxInstall) and then crashes and

Re: problem installing Lyx on Windows XP

2002-02-09 Thread David Case
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: > > I setup Windows XP on my computer (clean install) and so had to setup Lyx > again. However, when I try starting the Cygwin setup program from the > LyxInstall directory, it goes till the root directory (C:/cygwin) question > and then the