Amir,
I'm glad that worked for you. I don't have much experience with LyX on Windows
so I don't know if I can help you (that's why it's good to respond to the
mailing list so others can jump in and help). See below for some thoughts:
From: Amir M. Toosi [am_to...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, Augu
From: Amir [am_to...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 7:06 AM
>Excellent yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>>
>> To get around this problem, you need to install MiKTeX first. Then you
>>install
>> the standard installer ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.3/LyX-2.0.3-2-
>> Installer.exe and when it a
Excellent yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>
> To get around this problem, you need to install MiKTeX first. Then you
install
> the standard installer ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.3/LyX-2.0.3-2-
> Installer.exe and when it asks you what Latex system to use you select the
> directory you installed Mi
To get around this problem, you need to install MiKTeX first. Then you install
the standard installer ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.3/LyX-2.0.3-2-
Installer.exe and when it asks you what Latex system to use you select the
directory you installed MiKTeX to.
Using Procmon - the installer is trying to access mirrors that no longer have
the files (or do not exist in the first place).
MikTeX can be downloaded from: http://miktex.org/ - includes a set of mirrors in
the dropdown
Cheers
Paul
Michael
> "Downloading MiKTeX failed. Would you like to try again? (HTTP/1.1 404 Not
> Found)"
I installed Lyx 2 on Windows 7 yesterday and got this exact same error. I
continued with the install, assuming I would need to install MikTeX after
Lyx had completed.
However, during the install I
