Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Uwe Stöhr wrote: [...] In the case of LyX, yes. The installer takes also care of third party programs, like Imagemagick, Ghostscript etc. To assure that everything works smoothly, deinstall LyX first before you install a new LyX-version. I tried installing lyx on windows xp yesterday. The installer looked up the websites for imagemagick, ghostscript, python and so on, but didn't actually download anything. Could that have something to do with security settings in windows? This particular machine always ask questions about the publisher before running files downloaded from the web. There was no questions about the other installers though - they simply weren't downloaded. So I had to download every extra package file myself, from the pages the installer looked up. (I.e. install python? Yes! explorer now shows the download page for python, the installer immediately moved to the next download question. I knew the download couldn't possibly be that fast.) After installing everything it did not work - there was no path to the python executable or the sh executable. So obviously the configure script failed. I ran it manually, had to type in the entire path to sh. Lyx would run after that, but nothing on the view menu worked and converting lyx documents failed too. Eventually I found instructions on setting up the windows path, and then things worked better. At least opening older lyx documents works now. Someone with better knowledge of windows could probably have done this faster, it took me an evening. Helge Hafting
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Helge Hafting wrote: I tried installing lyx on windows xp yesterday. The installer looked up the websites for imagemagick, ghostscript, python and so on, but didn't actually download anything. Could that have something to do with security settings in windows? You used Angus' installer. Use this version: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller that includes all needed programs, so that you don't need to download and install manually. Before you try it out deinstall the programs you just installed (python etc.) to assure that you start with a clean system (because you reported problems with them). regards Uwe
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Uwe Stöhr wrote: [...] In the case of LyX, yes. The installer takes also care of third party programs, like Imagemagick, Ghostscript etc. To assure that everything works smoothly, deinstall LyX first before you install a new LyX-version. I tried installing lyx on windows xp yesterday. The installer looked up the websites for imagemagick, ghostscript, python and so on, but didn't actually download anything. Could that have something to do with security settings in windows? This particular machine always ask questions about the publisher before running files downloaded from the web. There was no questions about the other installers though - they simply weren't downloaded. So I had to download every extra package file myself, from the pages the installer looked up. (I.e. install python? Yes! explorer now shows the download page for python, the installer immediately moved to the next download question. I knew the download couldn't possibly be that fast.) After installing everything it did not work - there was no path to the python executable or the sh executable. So obviously the configure script failed. I ran it manually, had to type in the entire path to sh. Lyx would run after that, but nothing on the view menu worked and converting lyx documents failed too. Eventually I found instructions on setting up the windows path, and then things worked better. At least opening older lyx documents works now. Someone with better knowledge of windows could probably have done this faster, it took me an evening. Helge Hafting
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Helge Hafting wrote: I tried installing lyx on windows xp yesterday. The installer looked up the websites for imagemagick, ghostscript, python and so on, but didn't actually download anything. Could that have something to do with security settings in windows? You used Angus' installer. Use this version: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller that includes all needed programs, so that you don't need to download and install manually. Before you try it out deinstall the programs you just installed (python etc.) to assure that you start with a clean system (because you reported problems with them). regards Uwe
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Uwe Stöhr wrote: [...] In the case of LyX, yes. The installer takes also care of third party programs, like Imagemagick, Ghostscript etc. To assure that everything works smoothly, deinstall LyX first before you install a new LyX-version. I tried installing lyx on windows xp yesterday. The installer looked up the websites for imagemagick, ghostscript, python and so on, but didn't actually download anything. Could that have something to do with security settings in windows? This particular machine always ask questions about the "publisher" before running files downloaded from the web. There was no questions about the other installers though - they simply weren't downloaded. So I had to download every extra package file myself, from the pages the installer looked up. (I.e. install python? Yes! explorer now shows the download page for python, the installer immediately moved to the next download question. I knew the download couldn't possibly be that fast.) After installing everything it did not work - there was no path to the python executable or the sh executable. So obviously the configure script failed. I ran it manually, had to type in the entire path to sh. Lyx would run after that, but nothing on the view menu worked and converting lyx documents failed too. Eventually I found instructions on setting up the windows path, and then things worked better. At least opening older lyx documents works now. Someone with better knowledge of windows could probably have done this faster, it took me an evening. Helge Hafting
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Helge Hafting wrote: I tried installing lyx on windows xp yesterday. The installer looked up the websites for imagemagick, ghostscript, python and so on, but didn't actually download anything. Could that have something to do with security settings in windows? You used Angus' installer. Use this version: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller that includes all needed programs, so that you don't need to download and install manually. Before you try it out deinstall the programs you just installed (python etc.) to assure that you start with a clean system (because you reported problems with them). regards Uwe
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Marc Demers wrote: It works great. Your solution was excellent. This solution?: If the latter is the case, deinstall LyX and also delete the math fonts and the folder C:\Documents and Settings\username\Applications\LyX , the uninstaller will ask you for this. (This avoids that you have a broken LyX installation due to rests of older LyX-versions.) Then reinstall LyX again with version 1.0 of the installer. regards Uwe
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Marc Demers wrote: It works great. Your solution was excellent. This solution?: If the latter is the case, deinstall LyX and also delete the math fonts and the folder C:\Documents and Settings\username\Applications\LyX , the uninstaller will ask you for this. (This avoids that you have a broken LyX installation due to rests of older LyX-versions.) Then reinstall LyX again with version 1.0 of the installer. regards Uwe
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Marc Demers wrote: The first solution works fine. Good. By the way, is it better to delete a previous version before installing a new one or can we - by using your installer - install a new version over an old one? In the case of LyX, yes. The installer takes also care of third party programs, like Imagemagick, Ghostscript etc. To assure that everything works smoothly, deinstall LyX first before you install a new LyX-version. regards Uwe
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Marc Demers wrote: It works great. Your solution was excellent. This solution?: If the latter is the case, deinstall LyX and also delete the math fonts and the folder C:\Documents and Settings\username\Applications\LyX , the uninstaller will ask you for this. (This avoids that you have a broken LyX installation due to rests of older LyX-versions.) Then reinstall LyX again with version 1.0 of the installer. regards Uwe
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Marc Demers wrote: It works great. Your solution was excellent. This solution?: If the latter is the case, deinstall LyX and also delete the math fonts and the folder C:\Documents and Settings\username\Applications\LyX , the uninstaller will ask you for this. (This avoids that you have a broken LyX installation due to rests of older LyX-versions.) Then reinstall LyX again with version 1.0 of the installer. regards Uwe
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Marc Demers wrote: The first solution works fine. Good. By the way, is it better to delete a previous version before installing a new one or can we - by using your installer - install a new version over an old one? In the case of LyX, yes. The installer takes also care of third party programs, like Imagemagick, Ghostscript etc. To assure that everything works smoothly, deinstall LyX first before you install a new LyX-version. regards Uwe
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Marc Demers wrote: It works great. Your solution was excellent. This solution?: If the latter is the case, deinstall LyX and also delete the math fonts and the folder C:\Documents and Settings\username\Applications\LyX , the uninstaller will ask you for this. (This avoids that you have a broken LyX installation due to rests of older LyX-versions.) Then reinstall LyX again with version 1.0 of the installer. regards Uwe
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Marc Demers wrote: It works great. Your solution was excellent. This solution?: > If the latter is the case, deinstall LyX and also delete the math > fonts and the folder > C:\Documents and Settings\username\Applications\LyX > , the uninstaller will ask you for this. > (This avoids that you have a broken LyX installation due to rests of > older LyX-versions.) Then reinstall LyX again with version 1.0 of the > installer. regards Uwe
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Marc Demers wrote: The first solution works fine. Good. By the way, is it better to delete a previous version before installing a new one or can we - by using your installer - install a new version over an old one? In the case of LyX, yes. The installer takes also care of third party programs, like Imagemagick, Ghostscript etc. To assure that everything works smoothly, deinstall LyX first before you install a new LyX-version. regards Uwe
Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Hello, Can you help? I want to get Lyx work on my laptop but I have to do this: Note that some of our users report that the configure script fails to run and, as a result, LyX fails to start, reporting a missing textclass.lst file. To fix, run the command (using MSYS): 'sh configure' from the LyX/Resources/lyx directory. How in the world it must be done? I am not sure how to do it. Best regards, Marc
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
- Original Message -
From: Marc Demers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 1:07 PM
Subject: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Hello,
Can you help? I want to get Lyx work on my laptop but I have to do this:
Note that some of our users report that the configure script fails to run
and, as a result, LyX fails to start, reporting a missing textclass.lst
file. To fix, run the command (using MSYS): 'sh configure' from the
LyX/Resources/lyx directory.
How in the world it must be done? I am not sure how to do it.
Best regards,
Marc
Msys has a tool called sh.exe which if you used the default
install can be found in C:\Msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe
You should have Msys installed because it is part of the LyX
helper programs installation suite. One way to start sh.exe is to
go to Windows -Start -Mingw -Msys - and click on Msys
This should pop up the Msys command prompt window.
You want to navigate to the folder where the file configure
is located. If you installed LyX to C:\Lyx the command typed
from the Msys prompt would be: cd /c/LyX/Resources/lyx enter
Then you would type at the prompt: sh configure enter
Suppose instead you installed LyX to program files; equivalently
Start Msys as before.
Type from the command prompt:
cd /c enter
cd /program files enter {SH: with the quotes}
cd /LyX enter
cd /Resources enter
cd /lyx enter
Then you would type at the prompt: sh configure enter
This should start a process that may last a couple of minutes
but after that LyX should work OK, as long as all the helper
programs have been installed. You can find additional info
about helper programs at: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137
Regards,
Stephen
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Marc Demers wrote: Can you help? I want to get Lyx work on my laptop but I have to do this: Note that some of our users report that the configure script fails to run ... Have you used this installer?: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller If not, deinstall LyX and reinstall it using this installer. I hope that the bug you mentioned doesn't appear. If it does anyhow copy the file sh.exe from ~\LyX\bin to ~\LyX\Resources\lyx\, then open a command line, change to ~\LyX\Resources\lyx\, and use there the command sh configure Please report what happens on your system. regards Uwe
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Marc Demers wrote: I have re-installed LyX using the Win Installer (BeliOS), version 1.0 but nothing is working. That is bad, but I need more details what exactly isn't working. Does LyX start? Do you get the missing textclass error message? If the latter is the case, deinstall LyX and also delete the math fonts and the folder C:\Documents and Settings\username\Applications\LyX, the uninstaller will ask you for this. (This avoids that you have a broken LyX installation due to rests of older LyX-versions.) Then reinstall LyX again with version 1.0 of the installer. --- Try the following only when the method from above didn't help and you get the missing textclass error message: I have copy the sh.exe file in the LyX/Resources/lyx directory, but which command? MS Dos or MSYS? From there can you help me with a «step-by-step» approach? I am quite «basic» in this domain... Here it comes: 1. Press Windows Start button, change there execute and type in cmd Press ENTER and you get a Windows console. 2. Now change to the directory ~\LyX\Resources\lyx\ (using the DOS-command cd) 3. Use now the command sh configure and you'll see LyX's configuration. regards Uwe
Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Hello, Can you help? I want to get Lyx work on my laptop but I have to do this: Note that some of our users report that the configure script fails to run and, as a result, LyX fails to start, reporting a missing textclass.lst file. To fix, run the command (using MSYS): 'sh configure' from the LyX/Resources/lyx directory. How in the world it must be done? I am not sure how to do it. Best regards, Marc
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
- Original Message -
From: Marc Demers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 1:07 PM
Subject: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Hello,
Can you help? I want to get Lyx work on my laptop but I have to do this:
Note that some of our users report that the configure script fails to run
and, as a result, LyX fails to start, reporting a missing textclass.lst
file. To fix, run the command (using MSYS): 'sh configure' from the
LyX/Resources/lyx directory.
How in the world it must be done? I am not sure how to do it.
Best regards,
Marc
Msys has a tool called sh.exe which if you used the default
install can be found in C:\Msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe
You should have Msys installed because it is part of the LyX
helper programs installation suite. One way to start sh.exe is to
go to Windows -Start -Mingw -Msys - and click on Msys
This should pop up the Msys command prompt window.
You want to navigate to the folder where the file configure
is located. If you installed LyX to C:\Lyx the command typed
from the Msys prompt would be: cd /c/LyX/Resources/lyx enter
Then you would type at the prompt: sh configure enter
Suppose instead you installed LyX to program files; equivalently
Start Msys as before.
Type from the command prompt:
cd /c enter
cd /program files enter {SH: with the quotes}
cd /LyX enter
cd /Resources enter
cd /lyx enter
Then you would type at the prompt: sh configure enter
This should start a process that may last a couple of minutes
but after that LyX should work OK, as long as all the helper
programs have been installed. You can find additional info
about helper programs at: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137
Regards,
Stephen
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Marc Demers wrote: Can you help? I want to get Lyx work on my laptop but I have to do this: Note that some of our users report that the configure script fails to run ... Have you used this installer?: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller If not, deinstall LyX and reinstall it using this installer. I hope that the bug you mentioned doesn't appear. If it does anyhow copy the file sh.exe from ~\LyX\bin to ~\LyX\Resources\lyx\, then open a command line, change to ~\LyX\Resources\lyx\, and use there the command sh configure Please report what happens on your system. regards Uwe
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Marc Demers wrote: I have re-installed LyX using the Win Installer (BeliOS), version 1.0 but nothing is working. That is bad, but I need more details what exactly isn't working. Does LyX start? Do you get the missing textclass error message? If the latter is the case, deinstall LyX and also delete the math fonts and the folder C:\Documents and Settings\username\Applications\LyX, the uninstaller will ask you for this. (This avoids that you have a broken LyX installation due to rests of older LyX-versions.) Then reinstall LyX again with version 1.0 of the installer. --- Try the following only when the method from above didn't help and you get the missing textclass error message: I have copy the sh.exe file in the LyX/Resources/lyx directory, but which command? MS Dos or MSYS? From there can you help me with a «step-by-step» approach? I am quite «basic» in this domain... Here it comes: 1. Press Windows Start button, change there execute and type in cmd Press ENTER and you get a Windows console. 2. Now change to the directory ~\LyX\Resources\lyx\ (using the DOS-command cd) 3. Use now the command sh configure and you'll see LyX's configuration. regards Uwe
Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Hello, Can you help? I want to get Lyx work on my laptop but I have to do this: Note that some of our users report that the configure script fails to run and, as a result, LyX fails to start, reporting a missing textclass.lst file. To fix, run the command (using MSYS): 'sh configure' from the /Resources/lyx directory. How in the world it must be done? I am not sure how to do it. Best regards, Marc
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
- Original Message -
From: "Marc Demers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 1:07 PM
Subject: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Hello,
Can you help? I want to get Lyx work on my laptop but I have to do this:
Note that some of our users report that the configure script fails to run
and, as a result, LyX fails to start, reporting a missing textclass.lst
file. To fix, run the command (using MSYS): 'sh configure' from the
/Resources/lyx directory.
How in the world it must be done? I am not sure how to do it.
Best regards,
Marc
Msys has a tool called sh.exe which if you used the default
install can be found in C:\Msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe
You should have Msys installed because it is part of the LyX
helper programs installation suite. One way to start sh.exe is to
go to Windows ->Start ->Mingw ->Msys -> and click on Msys
This should pop up the Msys command prompt window.
You want to navigate to the folder where the file "configure"
is located. If you installed LyX to C:\Lyx the command typed
from the Msys prompt would be: cd /c/LyX/Resources/lyx
Then you would type at the prompt: sh configure
Suppose instead you installed LyX to program files; equivalently
Start Msys as before.
Type from the command prompt:
cd /c
cd /"program files" {SH: with the quotes}
cd /LyX
cd /Resources
cd /lyx
Then you would type at the prompt: sh configure
This should start a process that may last a couple of minutes
but after that LyX should work OK, as long as all the helper
programs have been installed. You can find additional info
about helper programs at: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137
Regards,
Stephen
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Marc Demers wrote: Can you help? I want to get Lyx work on my laptop but I have to do this: Note that some of our users report that the configure script fails to run ... Have you used this installer?: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller If not, deinstall LyX and reinstall it using this installer. I hope that the bug you mentioned doesn't appear. If it does anyhow copy the file "sh.exe" from ~\LyX\bin to ~\LyX\Resources\lyx\, then open a command line, change to ~\LyX\Resources\lyx\, and use there the command sh configure Please report what happens on your system. regards Uwe
Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP
Marc Demers wrote: I have re-installed LyX using the Win Installer (BeliOS), version 1.0 but nothing is working. That is bad, but I need more details what exactly isn't working. Does LyX start? Do you get the missing textclass error message? If the latter is the case, deinstall LyX and also delete the math fonts and the folder C:\Documents and Settings\username\Applications\LyX, the uninstaller will ask you for this. (This avoids that you have a broken LyX installation due to rests of older LyX-versions.) Then reinstall LyX again with version 1.0 of the installer. --- Try the following only when the method from above didn't help and you get the missing textclass error message: I have copy the sh.exe file in the LyX/Resources/lyx directory, but which command? MS Dos or MSYS? From there can you help me with a «step-by-step» approach? I am quite «basic» in this domain... Here it comes: 1. Press Windows "Start" button, change there "execute" and type in cmd Press ENTER and you get a Windows console. 2. Now change to the directory ~\LyX\Resources\lyx\ (using the DOS-command "cd") 3. Use now the command sh configure and you'll see LyX's configuration. regards Uwe
