Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-02-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Does it? I've installed the thin version on my home PC a few times. The home PC has a dial-up connection (which is off during installation) and MikTeX set to ask. It asks, I say no (repeatedly), and installation goes fine. But if you press yes -

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-02-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Does it? I've installed the thin version on my home PC a few times. The home PC has a dial-up connection (which is off during installation) and MikTeX set to ask. It asks, I say no (repeatedly), and installation goes fine. But if you press yes -

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-02-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Does it? I've installed the "thin" version on my home PC a few times. The home PC has a dial-up connection (which is off during installation) and MikTeX set to "ask". It asks, I say no (repeatedly), and installation goes fine. But if you press

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-02-01 Thread Julio Rojas
Guess for the good of every user, expert or not, the second option is the one you should pick. On 2/1/07, Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/31/07, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uwe, if the option is set to off (no download whatsoever), can configure succeed? I guess configure will

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bo Peng schrieb: You would not agree with me but my opinion is that we have shot ourselves in the foot by enabling this automatic downloading option. The default is Ask me first which has the same problem. The simple fix for this problem is that we disable this option and allow lyx to be

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-02-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Uwe Stöhr wrote: The simple fix for this problem is that we disable this option and allow lyx to be installed without these classes. It is NOT our responsibility to install latex packages. We are! about 50% of the LyXers I know don't know anything about LaTeX and will

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-02-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Bo Peng schrieb: You would not agree with me but my opinion is that we have shot ourselves in the foot by enabling this automatic downloading option. The default is Ask me first which has the same problem. Does it? I've installed the thin version on my home PC a few

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Does it? I've installed the thin version on my home PC a few times. The home PC has a dial-up connection (which is off during installation) and MikTeX set to ask. It asks, I say no (repeatedly), and installation goes fine. But if you press yes - same problem. And I

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-02-01 Thread Julio Rojas
Guess for the good of every user, expert or not, the second option is the one you should pick. On 2/1/07, Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/31/07, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uwe, if the option is set to off (no download whatsoever), can configure succeed? I guess configure will

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bo Peng schrieb: You would not agree with me but my opinion is that we have shot ourselves in the foot by enabling this automatic downloading option. The default is Ask me first which has the same problem. The simple fix for this problem is that we disable this option and allow lyx to be

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-02-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Uwe Stöhr wrote: The simple fix for this problem is that we disable this option and allow lyx to be installed without these classes. It is NOT our responsibility to install latex packages. We are! about 50% of the LyXers I know don't know anything about LaTeX and will

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-02-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Bo Peng schrieb: You would not agree with me but my opinion is that we have shot ourselves in the foot by enabling this automatic downloading option. The default is Ask me first which has the same problem. Does it? I've installed the thin version on my home PC a few

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Does it? I've installed the thin version on my home PC a few times. The home PC has a dial-up connection (which is off during installation) and MikTeX set to ask. It asks, I say no (repeatedly), and installation goes fine. But if you press yes - same problem. And I

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-02-01 Thread Julio Rojas
Guess for the good of every user, expert or not, the second option is the one you should pick. On 2/1/07, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/31/07, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Uwe, if the option is set to off (no download whatsoever), can > > configure succeed? I guess

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bo Peng schrieb: You would not agree with me but my opinion is that we have shot ourselves in the foot by enabling this automatic downloading option. The default is "Ask me first" which has the same problem. The simple fix for this problem is that we disable this option and allow lyx to be

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-02-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Uwe Stöhr wrote: The simple fix for this problem is that we disable this option and allow lyx to be installed without these classes. It is NOT our responsibility to install latex packages. We are! about 50% of the LyXers I know don't know anything about LaTeX and will

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-02-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Bo Peng schrieb: You would not agree with me but my opinion is that we have shot ourselves in the foot by enabling this automatic downloading option. The default is "Ask me first" which has the same problem. Does it? I've installed the "thin" version on my home PC a few

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Does it? I've installed the "thin" version on my home PC a few times. The home PC has a dial-up connection (which is off during installation) and MikTeX set to "ask". It asks, I say no (repeatedly), and installation goes fine. But if you press "yes" -> same problem.

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas Sauter schrieb: +checking for default encoding (this may take a long time) + checking for ec fonts... yes + checking for ec support in LaTeX format... yes +checking for document class IEEEtran [IEEEtran]... creating packages.lst creating doc/LaTeXConfig.lyx This is a known problem we

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-31 Thread Bo Peng
This is a known problem we are working on. Workaround: Open an internet connection and reconfigure LyX. Uwe, if the option is set to off (no download whatsoever), can configure succeed? I guess configure will get current class list and start lyx properly. Bo

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bo Peng schrieb: This is a known problem we are working on. Workaround: Open an internet connection and reconfigure LyX. Uwe, if the option is set to off (no download whatsoever), can configure succeed? I guess configure will get current class list and start lyx properly. Yes this should

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-31 Thread Bo Peng
On 1/31/07, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uwe, if the option is set to off (no download whatsoever), can configure succeed? I guess configure will get current class list and start lyx properly. Yes this should work, but then the users complain that not all needed packages are

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas Sauter schrieb: +checking for default encoding (this may take a long time) + checking for ec fonts... yes + checking for ec support in LaTeX format... yes +checking for document class IEEEtran [IEEEtran]... creating packages.lst creating doc/LaTeXConfig.lyx This is a known problem we

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-31 Thread Bo Peng
This is a known problem we are working on. Workaround: Open an internet connection and reconfigure LyX. Uwe, if the option is set to off (no download whatsoever), can configure succeed? I guess configure will get current class list and start lyx properly. Bo

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bo Peng schrieb: This is a known problem we are working on. Workaround: Open an internet connection and reconfigure LyX. Uwe, if the option is set to off (no download whatsoever), can configure succeed? I guess configure will get current class list and start lyx properly. Yes this should

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-31 Thread Bo Peng
On 1/31/07, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uwe, if the option is set to off (no download whatsoever), can configure succeed? I guess configure will get current class list and start lyx properly. Yes this should work, but then the users complain that not all needed packages are

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-01-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas Sauter schrieb: +checking for default encoding (this may take a long time) + checking for ec fonts... yes + checking for ec support in LaTeX format... yes +checking for document class IEEEtran [IEEEtran]... creating packages.lst creating doc/LaTeXConfig.lyx This is a known problem we

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-01-31 Thread Bo Peng
This is a known problem we are working on. Workaround: Open an internet connection and reconfigure LyX. Uwe, if the option is set to off (no download whatsoever), can configure succeed? I guess configure will get current class list and start lyx properly. Bo

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-01-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bo Peng schrieb: This is a known problem we are working on. Workaround: Open an internet connection and reconfigure LyX. Uwe, if the option is set to off (no download whatsoever), can configure succeed? I guess configure will get current class list and start lyx properly. Yes this should

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-01-31 Thread Bo Peng
On 1/31/07, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uwe, if the option is set to off (no download whatsoever), can > configure succeed? I guess configure will get current class list and > start lyx properly. Yes this should work, but then the users complain that not all needed packages are

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-30 Thread Thomas Sauter
I run the configure.py. What output does this produce? Also, when you deinstalled LyX, did you also delete anything it created under C:\Documents and Settings\your id\Application Data? /Paul There was nothing created under C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\sauter\Application Data Problem

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Thomas Sauter wrote: There was nothing created under C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\sauter\Application Data Problem of the german version of the path? I don't think so. If you open a DOS prompt and run 'set h', what do you see for your home drive and home directory? Here is the output

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-30 Thread Thomas Sauter
Thomas Sauter wrote: There was nothing created under C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\sauter\Application Data Problem of the german version of the path? I don't think so. If you open a DOS prompt and run 'set h', what do you see for your home drive and home directory? HOMEDRIVE=C:

Yet More Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-30 Thread kenneth_l_brand
I fought the no textclasses found problem all weekend and just now got it fixed. I used the MS windows wiki-wiki installation (several times) and always got the same textclasses error. However, I finally got lyx to work !! My problem was that I had two other versions of Latex on my system

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Thomas Sauter wrote: Problem of the german version of the path? I don't think so. If you open a DOS prompt and run 'set h', what do you see for your home drive and home directory? HOMEDRIVE=C: HOMEPATH=\Dokumente und Einstellungen\sauter This is fine. (If your home path were on a remote

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-30 Thread Julio Rojas
Check if your firewall is blocking FTP connections. Once MikTex has an open FTP connection, all classes are downloaded and a non empty textclass.lst is generated. If after this step the problem persists, copy this textclass.lst to \document and settings\user\Application Data\Lyx1.4.x, this

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-30 Thread Thomas Sauter
I run the configure.py. What output does this produce? Also, when you deinstalled LyX, did you also delete anything it created under C:\Documents and Settings\your id\Application Data? /Paul There was nothing created under C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\sauter\Application Data Problem

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Thomas Sauter wrote: There was nothing created under C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\sauter\Application Data Problem of the german version of the path? I don't think so. If you open a DOS prompt and run 'set h', what do you see for your home drive and home directory? Here is the output

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-30 Thread Thomas Sauter
Thomas Sauter wrote: There was nothing created under C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\sauter\Application Data Problem of the german version of the path? I don't think so. If you open a DOS prompt and run 'set h', what do you see for your home drive and home directory? HOMEDRIVE=C:

Yet More Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-30 Thread kenneth_l_brand
I fought the no textclasses found problem all weekend and just now got it fixed. I used the MS windows wiki-wiki installation (several times) and always got the same textclasses error. However, I finally got lyx to work !! My problem was that I had two other versions of Latex on my system

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Thomas Sauter wrote: Problem of the german version of the path? I don't think so. If you open a DOS prompt and run 'set h', what do you see for your home drive and home directory? HOMEDRIVE=C: HOMEPATH=\Dokumente und Einstellungen\sauter This is fine. (If your home path were on a remote

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-30 Thread Julio Rojas
Check if your firewall is blocking FTP connections. Once MikTex has an open FTP connection, all classes are downloaded and a non empty textclass.lst is generated. If after this step the problem persists, copy this textclass.lst to \document and settings\user\Application Data\Lyx1.4.x, this

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-01-30 Thread Thomas Sauter
>> I run the configure.py. > > What output does this produce? Also, when you deinstalled LyX, did you > also delete anything it created under C:\Documents and Settings\your > id\Application Data? > > /Paul > > There was nothing created under C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\sauter\Application

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-01-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Thomas Sauter wrote: There was nothing created under C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\sauter\Application Data Problem of the german version of the path? I don't think so. If you open a DOS prompt and run 'set h', what do you see for your home drive and home directory? Here is the output

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-01-30 Thread Thomas Sauter
> Thomas Sauter wrote: > >> >> There was nothing created under >> C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\sauter\Application Data >> >> Problem of the german version of the path? > > I don't think so. If you open a DOS prompt and run 'set h', what do you see for your home drive and home directory?

Yet More Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-01-30 Thread kenneth_l_brand
I fought the "no textclasses found" problem all weekend and just now got it fixed. I used the MS windows wiki-wiki installation (several times) and always got the same textclasses error. However, I finally got lyx to work !! My problem was that I had two other versions of Latex on my

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-01-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Thomas Sauter wrote: Problem of the german version of the path? I don't think so. If you open a DOS prompt and run 'set h', what do you see for your home drive and home directory? HOMEDRIVE=C: HOMEPATH=\Dokumente und Einstellungen\sauter This is fine. (If your home path were on a remote

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-01-30 Thread Julio Rojas
Check if your firewall is blocking FTP connections. Once MikTex has an open FTP connection, all classes are downloaded and a non empty textclass.lst is generated. If after this step the problem persists, copy this textclass.lst to "\document and settings\\Application Data\Lyx1.4.x", this should

Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-26 Thread Bradburn, Edward
Hi Folks, Just installed Lyx yesterday on Windows, and, since I had a bit of trouble getting it to run, I thought I would post a quick report of what got it working. I installed using the network bundle at first, but constantly got a problem with Lyx refusing to start: the now quite famous

Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-26 Thread Bradburn, Edward
Hi Folks, Just installed Lyx yesterday on Windows, and, since I had a bit of trouble getting it to run, I thought I would post a quick report of what got it working. I installed using the network bundle at first, but constantly got a problem with Lyx refusing to start: the now quite famous

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-26 Thread Thomas Sauter
Hi Ed, -- Install MikTex (from the site, www.miktex.org). I used the basic version. -- Install Lyx Oh, I'm using Win XP with SP 2, and running Lyx 1.4.3-5. it still doesn't work here. I deinstalled lyx and miktex, then installed miktex (c:\MiKTeX25) from the miktex-website (basic), then

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Thomas Sauter wrote: it still doesn't work here. I deinstalled lyx and miktex, then installed miktex (c:\MiKTeX25) from the miktex-website (basic), then lyx (c:\Lyx14) (not the bundle and in a second try after deinstallation: miktex and the lyx-bundle). I changed the path to

Re: Comment on LyX Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bradburn, Edward schrieb: I installed using the network bundle at first, but constantly got a problem with Lyx refusing to start: the now quite famous textclasses not found problem. More precisely, the programs refuses to start and prints this as the error: LyXTextClassList::Read: no

Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-26 Thread Bradburn, Edward
Hi Folks, Just installed Lyx yesterday on Windows, and, since I had a bit of trouble getting it to run, I thought I would post a quick report of what got it working. I installed using the network bundle at first, but constantly got a problem with Lyx refusing to start: the now quite famous

Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-26 Thread Bradburn, Edward
Hi Folks, Just installed Lyx yesterday on Windows, and, since I had a bit of trouble getting it to run, I thought I would post a quick report of what got it working. I installed using the network bundle at first, but constantly got a problem with Lyx refusing to start: the now quite famous

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-26 Thread Thomas Sauter
Hi Ed, -- Install MikTex (from the site, www.miktex.org). I used the basic version. -- Install Lyx Oh, I'm using Win XP with SP 2, and running Lyx 1.4.3-5. it still doesn't work here. I deinstalled lyx and miktex, then installed miktex (c:\MiKTeX25) from the miktex-website (basic), then

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Thomas Sauter wrote: it still doesn't work here. I deinstalled lyx and miktex, then installed miktex (c:\MiKTeX25) from the miktex-website (basic), then lyx (c:\Lyx14) (not the bundle and in a second try after deinstallation: miktex and the lyx-bundle). I changed the path to

Re: Comment on LyX Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bradburn, Edward schrieb: I installed using the network bundle at first, but constantly got a problem with Lyx refusing to start: the now quite famous textclasses not found problem. More precisely, the programs refuses to start and prints this as the error: LyXTextClassList::Read: no

Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-01-26 Thread Bradburn, Edward
Hi Folks, Just installed Lyx yesterday on Windows, and, since I had a bit of trouble getting it to run, I thought I would post a quick report of what got it working. I installed using the "network bundle" at first, but constantly got a problem with Lyx refusing to start: the now quite famous

Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-01-26 Thread Bradburn, Edward
Hi Folks, Just installed Lyx yesterday on Windows, and, since I had a bit of trouble getting it to run, I thought I would post a quick report of what got it working. I installed using the "network bundle" at first, but constantly got a problem with Lyx refusing to start: the now quite famous

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-01-26 Thread Thomas Sauter
Hi Ed, > -- Install MikTex (from the site, www.miktex.org). I used the "basic" > version. > -- Install Lyx > > Oh, I'm using Win XP with SP 2, and running Lyx 1.4.3-5. > it still doesn't work here. I deinstalled lyx and miktex, then installed miktex (c:\MiKTeX25) from the miktex-website

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-01-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Thomas Sauter wrote: it still doesn't work here. I deinstalled lyx and miktex, then installed miktex (c:\MiKTeX25) from the miktex-website (basic), then lyx (c:\Lyx14) (not the bundle and in a second try after deinstallation: miktex and the lyx-bundle). I changed the path to

Re: Comment on LyX Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-01-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bradburn, Edward schrieb: I installed using the "network bundle" at first, but constantly got a problem with Lyx refusing to start: the now quite famous "textclasses not found" problem. More precisely, the programs refuses to start and prints this as the error: LyXTextClassList::Read: no