Re: SOLVED: LyX-Mac-1.6 and MacTeX2010 installation problem

[BH]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Kerensa McElroy  wrote:
> hmm.  No /usr/texbin softlink. And no tex installations at all listed in 
> system preferences.
>
> So, I repeated the installation for MacTeX2010, exactly as it says to. Same 
> problem.
>
> Any suggestions?

I'd try the MacTeX people; their support page is here:

http://www.tug.org/mactex/2010/support/emailform/#

(Make sure you click on the "read this note" link just above the form.)

BH

Re: SOLVED: LyX-Mac-1.6 and MacTeX2010 installation problem

[Kerensa McElroy]

hmm.  No /usr/texbin softlink. And no tex installations at all listed in system 
preferences. 

So, I repeated the installation for MacTeX2010, exactly as it says to. Same 
problem.

Any suggestions? 


On 23/02/2011, at 3:57 PM, BH wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Kerensa McElroy  wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> yes, I did see this
>> thread,http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg84463.html, to
>> no avail originally,
>> however it jogged me into working out a solution now that I've read it
>> again!
>> Here is the complete instructions to solving this problem, for anyone who
>> needs them:
>> 1. change into directory /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin
>> 2. type sudo ./texhash (and enter password)
>> 3. open lyx, go to LyX>Preferences>Paths> PATH Prefix. Remove whatever else
>> is there and replace with  /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin.
>> Save.
>> 4. Go to LyX >Reconfigure.
>> 5. Close LyX and open it again.
>> Kerensa.
> 
> This looks to me like a workaround for a botched MacTeX installation.
> Take a look at:
> 
> http://www.tug.org/mactex/2010/What_Is_Installed.pdf
> 
> You should have a softlink at /usr/texbin that points to
> /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin. If not, then something
> went wrong, and I'd wonder whether you might encounter other problems
> down the road.
> 
> I'd suggest checking to see that everything was installed where that
> document says it should be, and then opening System Preferences,
> clicking on the TeX Distribution button at the bottom, and ensuring
> that TeXLive-2010 is selected. If that creates the /usr/texbin
> softlink, then you should use that in LyX -- restoring the original
> list for PATH Prefix in LyX's preferences. If not, when you upgrade to
> MacTeX-2011, LyX won't know how to find it.
> 
> BH

Re: SOLVED: LyX-Mac-1.6 and MacTeX2010 installation problem

[BH]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Kerensa McElroy  wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> yes, I did see this
> thread,http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg84463.html, to
> no avail originally,
> however it jogged me into working out a solution now that I've read it
> again!
> Here is the complete instructions to solving this problem, for anyone who
> needs them:
> 1. change into directory /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin
> 2. type sudo ./texhash (and enter password)
> 3. open lyx, go to LyX>Preferences>Paths> PATH Prefix. Remove whatever else
> is there and replace with  /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin.
> Save.
> 4. Go to LyX >Reconfigure.
> 5. Close LyX and open it again.
> Kerensa.

This looks to me like a workaround for a botched MacTeX installation.
Take a look at:

http://www.tug.org/mactex/2010/What_Is_Installed.pdf

You should have a softlink at /usr/texbin that points to
/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin. If not, then something
went wrong, and I'd wonder whether you might encounter other problems
down the road.

I'd suggest checking to see that everything was installed where that
document says it should be, and then opening System Preferences,
clicking on the TeX Distribution button at the bottom, and ensuring
that TeXLive-2010 is selected. If that creates the /usr/texbin
softlink, then you should use that in LyX -- restoring the original
list for PATH Prefix in LyX's preferences. If not, when you upgrade to
MacTeX-2011, LyX won't know how to find it.

BH

SOLVED: LyX-Mac-1.6 and MacTeX2010 installation problem

[Kerensa McElroy]

Hi everyone,

yes, I did see this 
thread,http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg84463.html, to no 
avail originally,
however it jogged me into working out a solution now that I've read it again!

Here is the complete instructions to solving this problem, for anyone who needs 
them:

1. change into directory /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin
2. type sudo ./texhash (and enter password)
3. open lyx, go to LyX>Preferences>Paths> PATH Prefix. Remove whatever else is 
there and replace with  /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin. Save.
4. Go to LyX >Reconfigure.
5. Close LyX and open it again.

Kerensa.

Re: LyX-Mac-1.6 and MacTeX2010 installation problem

[BH]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Kerensa McElroy  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get LyX up and running on my system (Mac OS X 10.6.2) for the 
> first time. I've installed MacTeX2010 without a problem. Then when I try and 
> install Lyx, I get the following problem:
>
> 1. Removing obsolete files 
> ... Done removing obsolete files.
>
> 2. Testing to see if old LyX user's folder should be moved to new location 
> 
> ... Done moving LyX user's directory to new location.
>
> 3. (No preferences file found at ~/Library/'Application Support'/LyX-1.6/.)
>
> 4. Installing default LyX templates 
> ... Done installing default LyX templates.
>
> 5. Installing LyX's special LaTeX files 
> • Found TeX installation at .
> • Local TeX directory set to ~/Library/texmf.
> • Installed LyX's additional LaTeX .cls and .sty files.
>
> *** ERROR: Cannot run texhash command. Please run manually.
>
> ... Done.
>
>
> After, all my classes are 'unavailable'.  Also, when i try and run sudo 
> texhash from terminal, it simply says 'command not found'.
>
> I've trawled the web for a solution to this problem. It looks like a lot of 
> other people have come across this. However, none of the
> suggested solutions are working for me.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?

Did you see this thread? --

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg84463.html

My suspicion is that you really don't have MacTeX installed (at least
not properly); otherwise, you wouldn't have a problem running texhash
from the Terminal. You need to find where your MacTeX binaries are
(default is /usr/texbin) and make sure that path is one of the entries
in LyX > Preferences > Paths > PATH Prefix.

BH

LyX-Mac-1.6 and MacTeX2010 installation problem

[Kerensa McElroy]

Hi,

I'm trying to get LyX up and running on my system (Mac OS X 10.6.2) for the 
first time. I've installed MacTeX2010 without a problem. Then when I try and 
install Lyx, I get the following problem:

1. Removing obsolete files 
... Done removing obsolete files.

2. Testing to see if old LyX user's folder should be moved to new location 
... Done moving LyX user's directory to new location.

3. (No preferences file found at ~/Library/'Application Support'/LyX-1.6/.)

4. Installing default LyX templates 
... Done installing default LyX templates.

5. Installing LyX's special LaTeX files 
• Found TeX installation at .
• Local TeX directory set to ~/Library/texmf.
• Installed LyX's additional LaTeX .cls and .sty files.

*** ERROR: Cannot run texhash command. Please run manually.

... Done.


After, all my classes are 'unavailable'.  Also, when i try and run sudo texhash 
from terminal, it simply says 'command not found'. 

I've trawled the web for a solution to this problem. It looks like a lot of 
other people have come across this. However, none of the 
suggested solutions are working for me.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Kerensa.

Re: installation problem

[Arnaud Fouchet]

Hello,

I recently installed lyx on my computer. When I try to launch the spelling
check, lyx tells me "failed to start ispell".

What can I do ?

Thanks

PS : I'm a mac user, if that's important

Re: installation problem

[Rob Oakes]

> Probably a silly question, but do you have a LaTeX distribution installed on 
> it?  (I don't know what all comes standard on a MacBook.)

To this, I would ask, which LaTeX distribution do you have installed?  (Mac OS 
X does not come with a LaTeX distribution by default, though most OS X users 
seem to use MacTeX, http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/.)

If you are using MacTeX, it's also important to know where you have it 
installed.  If you used the default location, you might try to execute texhash 
with the sudo command:

sudo texhash

This will give texhash admin rights for your computer, and allow it to 
read/write to protected directories.

Just some thoughts.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

Re: installation problem

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 6/11/2010 4:49 AM, Arnaud Fouchet wrote:

Hello,

I own a macbook and I wanted to install lyx.

After I clicked on lyx-installer, told him to install, it reported the
error "Cannot run texhash command. Please run manually."

Can you help me ?


Probably a silly question, but do you have a LaTeX distribution 
installed on it?  (I don't know what all comes standard on a MacBook.)


/Paul

Re: installation problem

[Liviu Andronic]

Hello

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Arnaud Fouchet  wrote:
> I own a macbook and I wanted to install lyx.
> After I clicked on lyx-installer, told him to install, it reported the error
> "Cannot run texhash command. Please run manually."
> Can you help me ?
>
Not a Mac user, but try to open a Console, type texhash, and hit
. It might be possible that you need admin rights to do so.
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installation problem

[Arnaud Fouchet]

Hello,

I own a macbook and I wanted to install lyx.

After I clicked on lyx-installer, told him to install, it reported the error
"Cannot run texhash command. Please run manually."

Can you help me ?

Lyx+Miktex2.7+Windows7RC -> installation problem

[Murat Yildizoglu]

I will also ask this to question in the Miktex forum but I have just
wanted to check if any of you has met the same problem as me before
posting:
I am running W7RC in Virtual box and wanted to install the full LyX
installer. Lyx installs fine but Windows meets a problem during Miktex
install, because it crashes when it arrives to LatexSetup.exe. Then
Windows asks me to close the program. When I try to repeat the
installation, it crashes at the same point.

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Re: Lyx Installation problem on Mac OS X

[John Schulman]

I tried running the OSX installer directly and the installation seems
to go through but then there are other problems that prevent me from
opening a document or starting a new one.
Thanks for the help, but I think I'm going to give up on LyX 1.6 since
my current installation of 1.5 works.

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Bennett Helm  wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:32 AM, John Schulman  wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I still can't figure out the
>> problem. Here's a sh session (started in bash):
>>
>> sh-3.2$ which python
>> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/python
>
> Ah, yes. When the installer is run from the GUI, it doesn't pick up
> the path you specify manually. I think it should work to go into
> Terminal and enter:
>
> /path/to/LyX-installer/Contents/MacOS/LyX-installer
>
> That should pick up the path from your Terminal shell.
>
> Alternatively, you could make a link from /usr/bin/python to your
> current python installation.
>
> Bennett
>
>

Re: Lyx Installation problem on Mac OS X

[Bennett Helm]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:32 AM, John Schulman  wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I still can't figure out the
> problem. Here's a sh session (started in bash):
>
> sh-3.2$ which python
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/python

Ah, yes. When the installer is run from the GUI, it doesn't pick up
the path you specify manually. I think it should work to go into
Terminal and enter:

/path/to/LyX-installer/Contents/MacOS/LyX-installer

That should pick up the path from your Terminal shell.

Alternatively, you could make a link from /usr/bin/python to your
current python installation.

Bennett

Re: Lyx Installation problem on Mac OS X

[John Schulman]

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I still can't figure out the
problem. Here's a sh session (started in bash):

sh-3.2$ which python
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/python
sh-3.2$ python
EPD with Py2.5 (4.0.30002 ) -- http://www.enthought.com/epd

Python 2.5.2 |EPD with Py2.5 4.0.30002 | (r252:60911, Oct 15 2008, 16:58:38)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>






On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Bennett Helm  wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:28 AM, John Schulman  wrote:
>> I try to install Lyx 1.6.1 from the Mac OS X binary, and when I run
>> the Lyx-installer I get the following error:
>> AppleScript Error
>> sh: python: command not found
>>
>> I definitely have python installed. My default version is from the
>> enthought distribution (not the original Leopard installation)
>> 'which python' typed into bash returns
>> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/python
>
> And that's a path you probably don't have set for sh (as opposed to
> bash), which is why you're getting the error.
>
> The installer presupposes that you have default installations of tools
> like python. You can either create a link for python in a folder
> within your sh path or add your installation of python to the sh path
> before running the installer.
>
> Bennett
>
>

Re: Lyx Installation problem on Mac OS X

[Bennett Helm]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:28 AM, John Schulman  wrote:
> I try to install Lyx 1.6.1 from the Mac OS X binary, and when I run
> the Lyx-installer I get the following error:
> AppleScript Error
> sh: python: command not found
>
> I definitely have python installed. My default version is from the
> enthought distribution (not the original Leopard installation)
> 'which python' typed into bash returns
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/python

And that's a path you probably don't have set for sh (as opposed to
bash), which is why you're getting the error.

The installer presupposes that you have default installations of tools
like python. You can either create a link for python in a folder
within your sh path or add your installation of python to the sh path
before running the installer.

Bennett

Lyx Installation problem on Mac OS X

[John Schulman]

I try to install Lyx 1.6.1 from the Mac OS X binary, and when I run
the Lyx-installer I get the following error:
AppleScript Error
sh: python: command not found

I definitely have python installed. My default version is from the
enthought distribution (not the original Leopard installation)
'which python' typed into bash returns
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/python


Thanks,
John

[solved] Re: installation problem (Win XP)

[S. Teinturier]

Wonderful, it works now. Thanks a lot for your help and for LyX which is 
really great...

Regards,
Sara


Uwe Stöhr a écrit :

sara teinturier schrieb:

I've installed LyX with the LyX 1.5.1-1 installer for Windows (win 
XP, SP1). All

is very easy, thanks a lot.

But when I try to launch LyX, this report error appears:

"Debug log
TextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!
Completed"


Does this workaraound help?:

Delete the files "textclass.lst" and "packages.lst" in the folder
~:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\LyX1.5.x and 
restart LyX."


regards Uwe

Re: installation problem (Win XP)

[Uwe Stöhr]

sara teinturier schrieb:


I've installed LyX with the LyX 1.5.1-1 installer for Windows (win XP, SP1). All
is very easy, thanks a lot.

But when I try to launch LyX, this report error appears:

"Debug log
TextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!
Completed"


Does this workaraound help?:

Delete the files "textclass.lst" and "packages.lst" in the folder
~:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\LyX1.5.x and restart LyX."

regards Uwe

installation problem (Win XP)

[sara teinturier]

Hi, 

I've installed LyX with the LyX 1.5.1-1 installer for Windows (win XP, SP1). All
is very easy, thanks a lot.

But when I try to launch LyX, this report error appears:

"Debug log
TextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!
Completed"

What does that mean and what should I do??
Please, note I'm not at all a geek! 

Thanks for your help
Sara

Re: Windows installation problem

[Paul A. Rubin]

Ian Riley wrote:
Installing LyX from lyx-143-5.exe on two different Windows machines (XP 
and Win2000), both resulted in an error, "LyXTextClassList::Read: no 
textclasses found!", each time it is run.  Reinstallation did not 
resolve the problem.


LyX installs and runs flawlessly under Dapper Ubuntu at home.

Does anyway know of a solution?  Thanks, Ian




First question: are these machines self-contained, or do users have 
their home directories on a remote server?  (There have been two reports 
of this problem recently from people using remote servers.)


Assuming that your home directories are stored on the machines, you 
might try opening a DOS shell and changing to the Resources folder under 
the LyX installation directory.  There is a script 'configure.py' there. 
 Try running it.  (If you don't have the full Python installed and 
associated with .py file types, you will need to run 'python 
configure.py' or possibly '\python configure.py', where  is 
the path to the copy of Python installed by LyX.


In the event that doesn't work (it usually does), you should at least 
get some informative error messages in the DOS window.


/Paul

Re: Windows installation problem

[Nicolás]

Hi!

A previous post in the list may be of help:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg51982.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg51958.html

Nicolás

Ian Riley wrote:
Installing LyX from lyx-143-5.exe on two different Windows machines (XP 
and Win2000), both resulted in an error, "LyXTextClassList::Read: no 
textclasses found!", each time it is run.  Reinstallation did not 
resolve the problem.


LyX installs and runs flawlessly under Dapper Ubuntu at home.

Does anyway know of a solution?  Thanks, Ian

Windows installation problem

[Ian Riley]

Installing LyX from lyx-143-5.exe on two different Windows machines (XP 
and Win2000), both resulted in an error, "LyXTextClassList::Read: no 
textclasses found!", each time it is run.  Reinstallation did not 
resolve the problem.


LyX installs and runs flawlessly under Dapper Ubuntu at home.

Does anyway know of a solution?  Thanks, Ian

Re: Windows installation problem (and fix)

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Serge" == Serge Barbosa Da Torre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Serge> Yes. Note that this message is confusing: 
Serge> - did it search separately c:/appli/lyx14/bin, and
Serge> c:/appli/lyx14/resources (in which case it should have found
Serge> the correct dir), and did the error printing by concatenating
Serge> the 2 dirs? 

No

Serge> - or did it search a single dir of the form
Serge> c:/appli/lyx14/bin/c:/appli/lyx14/resources/ ?? Note that if i
Serge> pass a bogus dir to the -sysdir option, it reports that dir on
Serge> a new line.

There should be one directory per line.

JMarc

Re: Windows installation problem (and fix)

[Serge Barbosa Da Torre]

Serge> The fix is obviously to modify the launch script lyx.bat to add
Serge> the -sysdir option to the executable as following:

This should not be necessary... Did you do something special, besides
installing in a non-standard directory?

  
Nothing special. Actually I installed it a first time with the default 
dir (c:/Program Files/Lyx14) but it was failing.
Seeing in the list that some people had problem with the space in the 
pathname, i reinstalled it in c:/appli. Same problem.

The problem is
 Unable to determine the system directory having searched
   C:/appli/LyX14/bin/C:/appli/LyX14/Resources/

  
LyX should have searched in C:/appli/LyX14/Resources/ instead.


  

Yes.
Note that this message is confusing:
  - did it search separately c:/appli/lyx14/bin, and 
c:/appli/lyx14/resources (in which case it should have found the correct 
dir), and did the error printing by concatenating the 2 dirs?
  - or did it search a single dir of the form 
c:/appli/lyx14/bin/c:/appli/lyx14/resources/  ?? Note that if i pass a 
bogus dir to the -sysdir option, it reports that dir on a new line.

Re: Windows installation problem (and fix)

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Serge" == Serge Barbosa Da Torre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Serge> The fix is obviously to modify the launch script lyx.bat to add
Serge> the -sysdir option to the executable as following:

This should not be necessary... Did you do something special, besides
installing in a non-standard directory?

The problem is
 Unable to determine the system directory having searched
   C:/appli/LyX14/bin/C:/appli/LyX14/Resources/

LyX should have searched in C:/appli/LyX14/Resources/ instead.

JMarc

Windows installation problem (and fix)

[Serge Barbosa Da Torre]

For reference for other users:

I installed  Lyx 1.4.2  (with version Lyx-1.4.2-1.exe installer).
Unfortunately it completely fails to start. A cmd window start and 
disappear. Lyx does not start.


Running it from cmd window here is the message:

 Exception caught:
 boost::filesystem::is_directory: 
"D:\msys\home\lyx-142\build\installprefix\Resources\chkconfig.ltx": Le 
périphérique n'est pas prêt.

 Unable to determine the system directory having searched
   C:/appli/LyX14/bin/C:/appli/LyX14/Resources/
 Use the '-sysdir' command line parameter or set the environment 
variable LYX_DIR_14x to the LyX system directory containing the file 
`chkconfig.ltx'.


The fix is obviously to modify the launch script lyx.bat to add the 
-sysdir option to the executable as following:


C:\appli\LyX14\bin>more lyx.bat

@echo off
SET LC_ALL=en_EN
SET AIK_DATA_DIR=C:\appli\LyX14\aiksaurus
start "LyX" "C:\appli\LyX14\bin\lyx.exe" -sysdir c:/appli/LyX14/Resources %*


I am wondering why it works for other people.

Regards,
serge

Re: Installation problem on WinXP

[Mario]

Well... yes: I'm using the complete Installer and the latest version 1.4.1
(something that I can't use in my beatiful Debian becasue It isn't Sid) from
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller
and yes: I usually uninstall LyX before reinstalling it.

I'm trying to install LyX to computers that runs WindowsXP in spanish.

When attempting to install LyX in Spanish, this error happens just before the
LaTeX configuration. LyX itself installs (Lyx.exe and many of the programm
files) but I can not modify LyX.bat because it does not exists.

When attempt to install in English, this error DOES NOT happens. Everithing is
fine, even the menus are in spanish! (but not the document or spellchecker
options, nothing to worry about).

I think It's just a weird bug in the C programm that is in charge of making the
Lyx.bat file (Can't modify because I don't understand it, I hope someboy can).

Thank you very much for tracing this bug.

Re: Installation problem on WinXP

[Paul A. Rubin]

Mario wrote:

When trying to install LyX 1.4.1 under Windows XP and selecting spanish as
language, an error says "Lyx.cmd could not be created" and then LyX can not be
run because of the Lyx.bat file is missing.




Did LyX itself install?  (Is lyx.exe there?)  If so, you can create your 
own batch file.  Contents of mine are shown below; you would probably 
want to change English (en_EN) to Spanish (es_ES?).


/Paul

 batch file begins =
@echo off
set LYX_LOCALEDIR=C:\Program Files\LyX141\Resources\locale
if "%LANG%"=="" SET LANG=en_EN
if "%~1" == "~1" goto win95
start "LyX" "C:\Program Files\LyX141\bin\lyx1.4.x.exe" %*
goto end
:win95
start "LyX" "C:\Program Files\LyX141\bin\lyx1.4.x.exe" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 
%7 %8 %9

:end
 batch file ends ===

Re: Installation problem on WinXP

[Uwe Stöhr]

Mario wrote:


When trying to install LyX 1.4.1 under Windows XP and selecting spanish as
language, an error says "Lyx.cmd could not be created" and then LyX can not be
run because of the Lyx.bat file is missing.


Did you use this installer?:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller

If yes, reinstall LyX and choose in the uninstaller to remove it completely.

regards Uwe

Re: Installation problem on WinXP

[Stephen Harris]

Mario wrote:

When trying to install LyX 1.4.1 under Windows XP and selecting spanish 
as language, an error says "Lyx.cmd could not be created" and then LyX 
can not be run because of the Lyx.bat file is missing.


--

Enrico Forestieri suggested for users to add the following line to lyx.bat:

set LYX_LOCALEDIR=/Resources/locale

where  should be replaced by the path where LyX
was installed.

Maybe this will help in the process of fixing things.
I think it fixes like menus being in English instead of Spanish.

Regards,
Stephen

Installation problem on WinXP

[Mario]

When trying to install LyX 1.4.1 under Windows XP and selecting spanish as
language, an error says "Lyx.cmd could not be created" and then LyX can not be
run because of the Lyx.bat file is missing.

Re: An installation problem

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: An installation problem




rem For reference, here is a list of which builds of gmake are known to
rem work or not, and whether they work in the presence and/or absence 
rem of sh.exe.

rem
rem ->sh exists no sh
rem  cygwin b20.1 make (3.75):okay[1]   fails[2]
rem  MSVC compiled gmake 3.77:okay  okay
rem  MSVC compiled gmake 3.78.1:  okay  okay
rem  MSVC compiled gmake 3.79.1:  okay  okay
rem  mingw32/gcc-2.92.2 make (3.77):  okay  okay
rem  cygwin compiled gmake 3.77:  okay[1]   fails[2]
rem  cygwin compiled gmake 3.78.1:okay  fails[2]
rem  cygwin compiled gmake 3.79.1:couldn't build make[3]
rem
rem [1] doesn't cope with makefiles with DOS line endings, so must 
rem mount emacs source with text!=binary. 



Correction of "sh exists" (and "no sh") not shown over correct columns. 

Re: An installation problem

[Stephen Harris]

> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:27:15 -0500, "Paul A. Rubin"  said:



Eyal Rozenberg wrote:

>> I have cygwin installed, and I've tried to install Windows LyX

>> 1.3.7, with all binary paths pointing to the relevant cygwin files

>> (except for GScript which is installed separately). However, the

>> installation gives me some error message about not being able to

>> run a configuration script, then whenever I start LyX I get:

>> 

>> LyX wasn't able to find its layout descriptions Check that the file

>> textclass.lst is installed correctly

>> 

>> in a dialog, and the console says

>> 

>> LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file `'. Exiting.

>> 

>> I can't find that file anywhere; what to do?

>> 

>> Eyal Rozenberg

>> 

>> 



> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:27:15 -0500, "Paul A. Rubin"  said:



Paul> Apologies if this shows up twice -- I answered this morning, but

Paul> apparently the dog ate my message.



Paul> It's possible that the versions of some of the utility programs

Paul> installed by Cygwin are incompatible with the LyX configuration

Paul> script. I have not updated my Cygwin installation in a long

Paul> time, but I know that I had that problem a year or so ago.  In

Paul> particular, LyX installation is sensitive to the version of sed*

Paul> (earlier versions of sed choke on carriage return/linefeed

Paul> combinations used to terminate lines in the configuration

Paul> files).



Paul> One possible solution is to install MinSYS.  You may need to

Paul> make sure that the MinSYS bin directory is ahead of the Cygwin

Paul> bin directory on the Windows command path.  Another possibility,

Paul> if you have not upgraded Cygwin recently, is to do so now. 

Paul> HTH,



Paul> /Paul



--



Stephen Harris (SH) had previously written:

"In the past the sh.exe which comes with Cygwin has not been the 

same version which works that is provided by Minsys to install LyX."



SH now writes: Thanks for the correction to sed*

the documentation is confusing: 



-





From the Emacs&Auctex(11.82) downloaded configure.bat



rem For reference, here is a list of which builds of gmake are known to

rem work or not, and whether they work in the presence and/or absence 

rem of sh.exe.

rem

rem   sh exists no sh

rem  cygwin b20.1 make (3.75):okay[1]   fails[2]

rem  MSVC compiled gmake 3.77:okay  okay

rem  MSVC compiled gmake 3.78.1:  okay  okay

rem  MSVC compiled gmake 3.79.1:  okay  okay

rem  mingw32/gcc-2.92.2 make (3.77):  okay  okay

rem  cygwin compiled gmake 3.77:  okay[1]   fails[2]

rem  cygwin compiled gmake 3.78.1:okay  fails[2]

rem  cygwin compiled gmake 3.79.1:couldn't build make[3]

rem

rem [1] doesn't cope with makefiles with DOS line endings, so must 

rem mount emacs source with text!=binary. 



---



SH: Cygwin used to come with a LyX install files, but no longer.



I finally got Supercite working, regards,

Stephen

Re: An installation problem

[Paul A. Rubin]

Eyal Rozenberg wrote:

I have cygwin installed, and I've tried to install Windows LyX 1.3.7,
with all binary paths pointing to the relevant cygwin files (except for
GScript which is installed separately). However, the installation gives
me some error message about not being able to run a configuration
script, then whenever I start LyX I get:

LyX wasn't able to find its layout descriptions
Check that the file textclass.lst is installed correctly

in a dialog, and the console says

LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file  `'. Exiting.

I can't find that file anywhere; what to do?

Eyal Rozenberg




The configuration script uses a number of Unix/Linux utilities, 
including (prominently) sed.  Older versions of sed don't work with the 
configuration script.  I haven't updated my Cygwin installation in a 
long time, but the sed that Cygwin installed back when is definitely too 
old.  (There may be other utilities that need updating, but I know from 
painful personal experience that sed is one.)  Also, I had problems once 
with the LyX installation script seeing the version of LaTeX that Cygwin 
installed before finding the MiKTeX version, and deciding Cygwin's 
latex.exe would not work.  Might have been a faulty LaTeX installation 
under Cygwin, but in any case that problem was resolved by ensuring that 
MiKTeX preceded Cygwin on the Windows command path.


If you're willing to install MinSYS (and put it on the command path 
ahead of the Cygwin bin directory), I think that will cure your problem. 
 Otherwise, you should check whether there are updates available for 
Cygwin.  (Don't know if the most recent Cygwin is compatible with LyX or 
not.)


One other alternative:  people have compiled the LyX source under 
Cygwin.  (I'm assuming you installed the 1.3.7 Windows binary, rather 
than compiling yourself.)


HTH,

/Paul

Re: An installation problem

[Paul A. Rubin]

Eyal Rozenberg wrote:

I have cygwin installed, and I've tried to install Windows LyX 1.3.7,
with all binary paths pointing to the relevant cygwin files (except for
GScript which is installed separately). However, the installation gives
me some error message about not being able to run a configuration
script, then whenever I start LyX I get:

LyX wasn't able to find its layout descriptions
Check that the file textclass.lst is installed correctly

in a dialog, and the console says

LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file  `'. Exiting.

I can't find that file anywhere; what to do?

Eyal Rozenberg




Apologies if this shows up twice -- I answered this morning, but 
apparently the dog ate my message.


It's possible that the versions of some of the utility programs 
installed by Cygwin are incompatible with the LyX configuration script. 
 I have not updated my Cygwin installation in a long time, but I know 
that I had that problem a year or so ago.  In particular, LyX 
installation is sensitive to the version of sed (earlier versions of sed 
choke on carriage return/linefeed combinations used to terminate lines 
in the configuration files).


One possible solution is to install MinSYS.  You may need to make sure 
that the MinSYS bin directory is ahead of the Cygwin bin directory on 
the Windows command path.  Another possibility, if you have not upgraded 
Cygwin recently, is to do so now.  I don't know what versions of sed 
(and other helpers) currently ship with Cygwin.  A third possibility is 
to compile the LyX source under Cygwin (which I know some users have 
done -- I'm assuming you installed a precompiled binary).


I also had a problem once in which LyX saw the version of latex.exe 
installed by Cygwin rather than the version used by MiKTeX, and decided 
that the Cygwin latex.exe was dysfunctional.  I don't know if there was 
an installation error, or whether I had installed latex.exe but not 
other parts of LaTeX, or whether the version Cygwin shipped simply was 
not compatible.  In any event, since I have MiKTeX installed, the cure 
was to put MiKTeX's bin directory ahead of Cygwin's on the command path.


HTH,

/Paul

Re: An installation problem

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "Eyal Rozenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 1:18 AM
Subject: An installation problem



I have cygwin installed, and I've tried to install Windows LyX 1.3.7,
with all binary paths pointing to the relevant cygwin files (except for
GScript which is installed separately). However, the installation gives
me some error message about not being able to run a configuration
script, then whenever I start LyX I get:

LyX wasn't able to find its layout descriptions
Check that the file textclass.lst is installed correctly

in a dialog, and the console says

LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file  `'. Exiting.

I can't find that file anywhere; what to do?

Eyal Rozenberg




I don't have 1.3.7 installed for Cygwin. There is a similar problem
which happens for the native(qt not X11) installation which is
solved by navigating to the LyX->Resources->LyX directory and
typing "sh configure" which will build the textclass file. 

In the past the sh.exe which comes with Cygwin has not been the 
same version which works that is provided by Minsys to install

LyX. Enrico Forestieri, who contributes to this list and to the
developer list offered to provide Cygwin cvs instructions but said
it was not for the feint of heart. Here is a link to previous talks:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg44712.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg44721.html

Regards,
Stephen

An installation problem

[Eyal Rozenberg]

I have cygwin installed, and I've tried to install Windows LyX 1.3.7,
with all binary paths pointing to the relevant cygwin files (except for
GScript which is installed separately). However, the installation gives
me some error message about not being able to run a configuration
script, then whenever I start LyX I get:

LyX wasn't able to find its layout descriptions
Check that the file textclass.lst is installed correctly

in a dialog, and the console says

LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file  `'. Exiting.

I can't find that file anywhere; what to do?

Eyal Rozenberg

Re: LyX 1.4 installation problem

[Georg Baum]

Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote:

[internal compiler error on SuSE 9.0]

> Has anybody had the same problem ?

It looks like the same error I got with SuSE 8.1 and 8.2. See the bottom of
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Obtaining.

> Do I need to upgrade my C compiler (how 
> can I do this?) ?

That would help, but the rpms mentioned on the page above seem to be
removed. There was another workaround (edit a boost header) that should be
available in the mailing list archive somewhere.

> Do I need supplementary libraries ? 

No. Did you think about upgrading the 9.0 box?



Georg

LyX 1.4 installation problem

[Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez]

Hola,

I have just installed lyx 1.4.0pre3 in a suse 9.3 system without problem 
(with qt3), but I also tried to install in a suse 9.0 system, and I obtain 
and error when I try to build the executable (./configure says there is no 
problem):


 
/usr/include/g++/bits/stl_algobase.h: In function `_OutputIter
   std::copy(_InputIter, _InputIter, _OutputIter) [with _InputIter =
   __gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator > >, _OutputIter =
   __gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator > >]':
/usr/include/g++/bits/vector.tcc:142:   instantiated from `std::vector<_Tp, 
_Alloc>& std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::operator=(const std::vector<_Tp, 
_Alloc>&) [with _Tp = MathAtom, _Alloc = std::allocator]'

math_hullinset.C:635:   instantiated from here
/usr/include/g++/bits/stl_algobase.h:349: internal compiler error: Segmentation
   fault
X

The gcc provided with this suse version is 3.3.1.

Has anybody had the same problem ? Do I need to upgrade my C compiler (how 
can I do this?) ? Do I need supplementary libraries ?



Thanks in advance.


Horacio.

RE: Windows Installation Problem

[John W. Sheppard, PhD]

This is all very strange. I copied the file again, and it now seems to be
working.

Sorry for the false alarm, and thanks for the advice.

John

- - - - - - - - - -
Dr. John W. Sheppard
- Fellow and Assistant Research Professor
- ARINC and Johns Hopkins University
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]



-Original Message-
From: Stephen Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 5:23 PM
To: John W. Sheppard, PhD; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Windows Installation Problem



- Original Message -
From: "John W. Sheppard, PhD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 12:41 PM
Subject: RE: Windows Installation Problem


> To answer your questions, yes they were latex packages, and yes I am using
> MiKTeX.
>
> I had only looked at the textclass.lst file in the C:\Program
> Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory. You are correct that the one that I did
> not check (in C:\Documents and
> Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx) is 0-length. I copied the
> global
> one to the local one but that didn't work.
>
> When I try running sh configure, it doesn't run because paths don't appear
> to be set up right. I decided not to try to fix that because I wasn't sure
> it would get me anywhere.
>
> John
>

That means you probably dont have Msys in your Windows PATH

Suppose that you have Msys etc installed in C:\Msys\1.0\bin
and bin is where sh.exe is located. Then you should try from

C:\Msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure  [using the dos cmd prompt]

you would be in your ~lyx\resources\lyx directory which contains
the configure file, and type in "C:\Msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure" 
(but no quotes when you type it) from the lyx\resources\lyx directory.

For "me" this looks like:
C:\Lyx\resources\lyx> C:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure 

But you want to substitute your actual installation location,
maybe c:\program files\lyx\resources\lyx, in place of "my" location.

Regards,
Stephen

Re: Windows Installation Problem

[Paul A. Rubin]

John W. Sheppard, PhD wrote:

To answer your questions, yes they were latex packages, and yes I am using
MiKTeX.

I had only looked at the textclass.lst file in the C:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory. You are correct that the one that I did
not check (in C:\Documents and
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx) is 0-length. I copied the global
one to the local one but that didn't work.


That's a bit curious.  I take it that you still got the "unable to find 
layout description/check textclass.lst" message after you copied the 
global textclass.lst file over the broken local one?


Other than comments, the contents of the textclass.lst file is a list of 
LaTeX document classes, each line culminating with true or false 
according to whether a layout was found.  Is anybody in the (global) 
list flagged true?  In particular, you should have the following line:


"article" "article" "article" "true"

which signals that the basic article class has a layout.  If nobody is 
flagged true (don't know if that's even possible), it might signal a 
fundamental problem with MiKTeX.


Speaking of MiKTeX, have you verified that it's working post-update?


When I try running sh configure, it doesn't run because paths don't appear
to be set up right. I decided not to try to fix that because I wasn't sure
it would get me anywhere.


LyX 1.3.6 contains a "path prefix" that it prepends to your system path. 
 The path prefix contains (should contain?) the path to the MinSYS bin 
directory, where sh and related programs live.  So you don't need that 
on your system path for LyX to work.


In any case, the main purpose of running the configure script would be 
to generate the global textclass.lst file, which you already have.  The 
secondary purpose would be to verify that latex works (and that LyX can 
find it).


So the immediate mystery is why LyX won't settle for the global 
textclass.lst file.  Best guess from here would be that something is 
amiss with the file (corrupted, or doesn't show any usable layouts).


Paul

Re: Windows Installation Problem

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "John W. Sheppard, PhD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 12:41 PM
Subject: RE: Windows Installation Problem



To answer your questions, yes they were latex packages, and yes I am using
MiKTeX.

I had only looked at the textclass.lst file in the C:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory. You are correct that the one that I did
not check (in C:\Documents and
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx) is 0-length. I copied the 
global

one to the local one but that didn't work.

When I try running sh configure, it doesn't run because paths don't appear
to be set up right. I decided not to try to fix that because I wasn't sure
it would get me anywhere.

John



That means you probably dont have Msys in your Windows PATH

Suppose that you have Msys etc installed in C:\Msys\1.0\bin
and bin is where sh.exe is located. Then you should try from

C:\Msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure  [using the dos cmd prompt]

you would be in your ~lyx\resources\lyx directory which contains
the configure file, and type in "C:\Msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure" 
(but no quotes when you type it) from the lyx\resources\lyx directory.

For "me" this looks like:
C:\Lyx\resources\lyx> C:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure 

But you want to substitute your actual installation location,
maybe c:\program files\lyx\resources\lyx, in place of "my" location.

Regards,
Stephen

RE: Windows Installation Problem

[John W. Sheppard, PhD]

To answer your questions, yes they were latex packages, and yes I am using
MiKTeX.

I had only looked at the textclass.lst file in the C:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory. You are correct that the one that I did
not check (in C:\Documents and
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx) is 0-length. I copied the global
one to the local one but that didn't work.

When I try running sh configure, it doesn't run because paths don't appear
to be set up right. I decided not to try to fix that because I wasn't sure
it would get me anywhere.

John

- - - - - - - - - -
Dr. John W. Sheppard
- Fellow and Assistant Research Professor
- ARINC and Johns Hopkins University
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]



-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul A. Rubin
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 2:18 PM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Windows Installation Problem


John W. Sheppard, PhD wrote:
>
> I apologize beforehand if this is one of those emails that appears a lot
on
> the list. I have looked through the www.lyx.org website and don't seem to
be
> able to find what I am looking for.

The empty textclass.lst phenomenon occurs repeatedly in the list, but
your symptoms are somewhat different from most.
>
> Recently, I downloaded lyx 1.3.6 for Windows and installed it. At first,
> everything worked great until I attempted to install some packages that I
> just "skipped through" during initial installation.

Were the "skipped" packages LaTeX packages (and, if so, are you using
MiKTeX), or were they supporting programs (Ghostscript, MinSYS, ...)?

> Now, when I run lyx, I
> instantly get a popup message that says
>
> LyX wasn't able to find any layout description!
>
> Check the contents of the file "textclass.lst"
> Sorry, has to exist :-(
>
> [OK]
>
> I press the OK button and everything goes away. I looked at textclass.lst
> and don't see anything useful.

There are (or should be) two copies of textclass.lst on your system.
One would be in C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx (assuming that's
where you installed LyX), and the other would be in C:\Documents and
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx.  Which did you look at
(both?), and did you see content in them, or were they empty (zero
bytes)?  The most common, if not only, problem with textclass.lst on
Windows systems seems to be the configure script writing a zero-length
file as a result of something going wrong.

> I attempted to "manually run" configure, but
> that doesn't work either. I have also attempted to uninstall and
reinstall,
> but nothing changes.

By "manually run", do you mean running 'sh configure' in the C:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory?  If so, does that spew a lot of
progress information to the shell window and, most importantly, does it
indicate that a working copy of latex.exe was found?

Paul

Re: Windows Installation Problem

[Paul A. Rubin]

John W. Sheppard, PhD wrote:


I apologize beforehand if this is one of those emails that appears a lot on
the list. I have looked through the www.lyx.org website and don't seem to be
able to find what I am looking for.


The empty textclass.lst phenomenon occurs repeatedly in the list, but 
your symptoms are somewhat different from most.


Recently, I downloaded lyx 1.3.6 for Windows and installed it. At first,
everything worked great until I attempted to install some packages that I
just "skipped through" during initial installation.


Were the "skipped" packages LaTeX packages (and, if so, are you using 
MiKTeX), or were they supporting programs (Ghostscript, MinSYS, ...)?



Now, when I run lyx, I
instantly get a popup message that says

LyX wasn't able to find any layout description!

Check the contents of the file "textclass.lst"
Sorry, has to exist :-(

[OK]

I press the OK button and everything goes away. I looked at textclass.lst
and don't see anything useful.


There are (or should be) two copies of textclass.lst on your system. 
One would be in C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx (assuming that's 
where you installed LyX), and the other would be in C:\Documents and 
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx.  Which did you look at 
(both?), and did you see content in them, or were they empty (zero 
bytes)?  The most common, if not only, problem with textclass.lst on 
Windows systems seems to be the configure script writing a zero-length 
file as a result of something going wrong.



I attempted to "manually run" configure, but
that doesn't work either. I have also attempted to uninstall and reinstall,
but nothing changes.


By "manually run", do you mean running 'sh configure' in the C:\Program 
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory?  If so, does that spew a lot of 
progress information to the shell window and, most importantly, does it 
indicate that a working copy of latex.exe was found?


Paul

Windows Installation Problem

[John W. Sheppard, PhD]

All,

I apologize beforehand if this is one of those emails that appears a lot on
the list. I have looked through the www.lyx.org website and don't seem to be
able to find what I am looking for.

Recently, I downloaded lyx 1.3.6 for Windows and installed it. At first,
everything worked great until I attempted to install some packages that I
just "skipped through" during initial installation. Now, when I run lyx, I
instantly get a popup message that says

LyX wasn't able to find any layout description!

Check the contents of the file "textclass.lst"
Sorry, has to exist :-(

[OK]

I press the OK button and everything goes away. I looked at textclass.lst
and don't see anything useful. I attempted to "manually run" configure, but
that doesn't work either. I have also attempted to uninstall and reinstall,
but nothing changes.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

John
- - - - - - - - - -
Dr. John W. Sheppard
- Fellow and Assistant Research Professor
- ARINC and Johns Hopkins University
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Paul A. Rubin]

Stephen Harris wrote:



As I think Stephen said earlier, that would be indicative of a bad (or 
incomplete) LyX installation.  The LyX tree under Applications Data is 
created during installation (I'm pretty sure).  Saving a LyX document 
won't create it if it's not already there, and its absence may not 
affect the saving of the document.  Since we're pretty sure (?) the 
LyX configuration script is balking at a perceived lack of a working 
LaTeX executable, I wouldn't worry about this until after the MiKTeX 
issues are sorted out.




I think John first installed LyX 1.3.5. Was that under a different
c:\document and settings\...  path structure than is used currently?
Maybe a Preferences file under \username\ .lyx that needed deletion.

I mean delete \.lyx?


Version 1.3.5 and earlier did not put anything under Documents and 
Settings (nor under Program Files for that matter), since they were 
allergic to spaces in paths.  With 1.3.5, you designated a home 
directory, and a .lyx folder (with subfolders) was created thereunder, 
housing your preferences and customizations.  Version 1.3.6 looks 
specifically in Docs and Settings\your name here\Application Data, so 
there should be no collisions.  In fact, I've had 1.3.5 and 1.3.6 (and 
1.3.7, for that matter) peacefully coexisting on a couple of machines. 
1.3.6 has no idea the 1.3.5 preferences exist, and vice versa.


Paul

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst
are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?



BTW I have not been able to find a Lyx file in the Applications Data

file under User after I have installed, created and saved  a file in Lyx.
ARRGH!


As I think Stephen said earlier, that would be indicative of a bad (or 
incomplete) LyX installation.  The LyX tree under Applications Data is 
created during installation (I'm pretty sure).  Saving a LyX document 
won't create it if it's not already there, and its absence may not affect 
the saving of the document.  Since we're pretty sure (?) the LyX 
configuration script is balking at a perceived lack of a working LaTeX 
executable, I wouldn't worry about this until after the MiKTeX issues are 
sorted out.




I think John first installed LyX 1.3.5. Was that under a different
c:\document and settings\...  path structure than is used currently?
Maybe a Preferences file under \username\ .lyx that needed deletion.

I mean delete \.lyx?
Stephen 

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Paul A. Rubin]

John Kane wrote:


As far as I can tell my tex list matches the screen shot that you included.
I am unsure from your last posts if you want me to try the -e 
compatibiltiy mode however I gave it a try and

 >To force MiKTeX to use e-TeX in compatibility mode, follow these steps:
 >1. Run the MiKTeX options program, choose the TeX formats page, and
 >then for each program that you want in compatibility mode (e.g. latex,
pdflatex, etc.)  do the following:
 >2. Click on the Edit button,
 >3. Choose "e-TeX compatibility mode" as the compiler,
 >4. Click Apply,
5. Click Build"
Results of this is the same error message, as before, when trying an 
updatewhich comes down basically to

"initexmf: The file "latex.efmt" could not be found."
And as far as I can tell latex.efmt is not on my hard drive


On my system it's at C:\localtexmf\miktex\fmt\latex.efmt.  The fact that 
it's in the localtexmf tree suggests that it is created during 
installation or format updating, as opposed to being part of the 
original installation.


Incidentally, with a working MiKTeX installation you can locate this and 
other style/format/class files by opening a DOS prompt and running 
kpsewhich, to wit 'kpsewhich latex.eftm'.  It's generally faster than 
using the OS to search the entire MiKTeX directory tree (let alone the 
entire drive).


BTW I have not been able to find a Lyx file in the Applications Data 
file under User after I have installed, created and saved  a file in Lyx.

ARRGH!


As I think Stephen said earlier, that would be indicative of a bad (or 
incomplete) LyX installation.  The LyX tree under Applications Data is 
created during installation (I'm pretty sure).  Saving a LyX document 
won't create it if it's not already there, and its absence may not 
affect the saving of the document.  Since we're pretty sure (?) the LyX 
configuration script is balking at a perceived lack of a working LaTeX 
executable, I wouldn't worry about this until after the MiKTeX issues 
are sorted out.


From the Groping In The Dark Department:  Did you install MiKTeX from 
the Internet (as opposed to either a CD or a local network repository)? 
 If yes, you might try opening the MiKTeX Package Manager, waiting 
 for it to list all the packages, then syncing 
the directory (Repository->Synchronize) and checking for updates 
(Task->Update Wizard).  I've seen this used to resolve one or two 
miscellaneous installation bugs (which I think might have involved 
mixing older and newer MiKTeX components).


Paul

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[John Kane]

>>>Modern installs of LyX store the config "Lyx" directory under yourusername.>>I checked and it was not there before installation. Unfortunately it is  >>not there after either.>SH: If you have LyX installed now, then there is a new one there  >now or LyX is not installed. It is good that the old one is gone.>Paul had some hunch about pdfYes, I checked out his suggestion and my file looked okay.You mentioned a possible problem with R . I had uninstalled it so I  expect that it was not a problem but who knows. I'bm beginning to think  I should consult the augurs.  Sheep livers probably are just as  comprehensible as DOS error messages.  It also is an newer version  than the one mentioned in your mail    I have never loaded RWinEdt so it should not be a problem.  R  comes with a base installation and one can then load all sorts of  packages for
 it. RWinEdit is just one of them. I had never even heard  of it before. I may have to look into it :)  The current R-2.2.0  does not come with any .tex files that I can find.  Rd.sty currently resides in c:\Program  Files\R\R-2.2.0\share\texmf.  Exactly what this may mean I don't  know.  However it goes when I uninstall R which Idid  yesterday.  Of course it's back today. Takes all of 30 seconds to  install-almost as fast as MikTeX.  As far as I can tell my tex list matches the screen shot that you included.  I am unsure from your last posts if you want me to try the -e compatibiltiy mode however I gave it a try and   >To force MiKTeX to use e-TeX in compatibility mode, follow these steps:  >1. Run the MiKTeX options program, choose the TeX formats page, and  >then for each program that you want in compatibility mode (e.g. latex,  pdflatex, etc.)  do the following:  >2. Click on the Edit button,  >3. Choose
 "e-TeX compatibility mode" as the compiler,  >4. Click Apply,  5. Click Build"  Results of this is the same error message, as before, when trying an updatewhich comes down basically to   "initexmf: The file "latex.efmt" could not be found."  And as far as I can tell latex.efmt is not on my hard drive  BTW I have not been able to find a Lyx file in the Applications Data  file under User after I have installed, created and saved  a file  in Lyx.  ARRGH!  John Kane, Kingston ON  Canada
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Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Stephen Harris]

Hello John, a major suggestion,

The problem with installing LyX may be a conflicting old *TeX.
I actually wrote this as a solution if you have R For Windows
installed which I think comes with RWinEdt. I'm speculating, so
if you don't, no need to read this. It is also somewhat of a summary.
I think that slighty older versions of R-Windows came with fpTeX.
And I noticed an R Folder under RWinEdt, and since you wrote:

"I have checked and could not find any  rogue Latex.exe files
and I have hunted down and exterminated the localtexmf and
texmf and the only texmf which was in my R folder. I simply
removed R for the moment. :)" [So I'm taking a chance for a fix.]

OTOH, if this post does not apply, I have not seen this topic
reported upon in this forum and a possible fix, so it may have
value by its addition to the mailing archives. Sent only to Lyx-users.

SH: This result came from Miktex Options, Update

Refresh ran okay
Update bombed
Cannot create the pdf latex format file
Cannot create the  plain TeX format file
Cannot create the latex2e format file
Cannot create the plain pdf format file.

SH: My working version of Miktex/Lyx has
the following non-excluded TeX Formats
pdfLaTeX
plain TeX
LaTeX2e (latex)
pdfTeX

SH: In the olden day I think they used c:\> initexmf --dump[=program]
For example:  initexmf --dump=tex

latex This creates the dump file latex.fmt which is used by latex.exe.

tex This creates the dump file plain.fmt which is used by tex.exe.

pdflatex This creates the dump file pdflatex.fmt which is used by
pdflatex.exe.

pdftex This creates the dump file pdftex.fmt which is used by pdftex.exe.

This suggests the following explanation applies:

http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/miktex.html

"e-TeX compatibility mode

To force MiKTeX to use e-TeX in compatibility mode, follow these steps:

1. Run the MiKTeX options program, choose the TeX formats page, and
then for each program that you want in compatibility mode (e.g. latex,
pdflatex, etc.)  do the following:

2. Click on the Edit button,

3. Choose "e-TeX compatibility mode" as the compiler,

4. Click Apply,

5. Click Build"

SH: I notice that a contributed package for R-Windows is RWinEdt.
I can run LyX, another TeX front-end and WinEdt, with MikTeX 2.4
(fpTex has bin-pdftex-1.20b-win32-static.zip 2005-01-16 9468 Kbyte
and RWinEdt also contains a file RW-LaTeX.png and latex directory.)
fpTex comes with the pdfTeX module. Another troubleshooter stated:

"I'm bothered by the fact that the output from your format
refresh seems to be running pdfetex rather than etex, but I
don't know if I should be."

SH: I'm a bit dubious that LyX is modular enough to fill in for
RWinEdt? But could RWinEdt still work with RWindows and
LyX serve for other publishing tasks? Is solution #4 needed?

"For one or two versions, MiKTeX has been ignoring the 
TEXINPUTS environment variable that most other TeX 
distributions use to indicate additions to the search path. 
The R make process uses TEXINPUTS to add 
$RHOME/share/texmf to the search path, so that

the Rd.sty style file will be found.

Instead of using TEXINPUTS, MiKTeX uses the command line option
"-include-directory=foo", to prepend foo to the search path.

There are four workarounds to this.

Workaround 4: Install the R style files into MikTeX. Remember to
re-install updates when you upgrade R! Instructions for this were
written by Gabor Grothendieck [a name of categorical Universe fame]:

1. Create a new tex subfolder of your \localtexmf folder:

   md \localtexmf\tex

2. Copy your R .sty and .fd files into it:


cd \Program Files\R\rw2001\share\texmf
copy *.* \localtexmf\tex

3. Go into

Start | Programs | MiKTeX | MiKTeX Options | General

and press Update Now and Refresh Now. (I am not certain that this step
needs to be done but it can't hurt.)

4. You can check whether it is finding Rd.sty in the right place with
the command:

findtexmf Rd.sty

#2 - #4 need to be repeated each time one installs a new version of R
if the *.sty or *.fd files have changed but if they have not changed
then nothing at all needs to be done. It has the advantage that it
leaves all MiKTeX options at their defaults and does not need a custom
miktex.ini file.

[Added in February, 2005]:
The most recent version of pdftex no longer supports TEXINPUTS,
even with the old *pdftex* engine, so Workaround 1 no longer works."

SH: I included this #4 step so you wouldn't have to look it up and
I'm going to send a copy. Should e-compatibility mode be used and
also Step #4? Can Lyx serve as a front-end for RWindows; can both
RWinEdt and Lyx be used at the same time if LyX can't do RWindows?
I think they probably can. pdfTeX seems to be a player in the drama.

I think it is a good idea to run both Miktex Options, Refresh & Update
after running etex compatibility mode first, and also after running step 4.
To leave no stone unturned run LyX --> Reconfigure also at the very end.
I think maybe that CreateRegistryPath patch for R

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Paul A. Rubin]

Bugger.  We're getting out of my depth on the LaTeX front.

The initex run was looking for the wrong file:  should be 'initex 
latex.ltx' (not .lts).  The latex.ltx file should be in the 
C:\MiKTeX\tex\latex\base directory (give or take adjusting the root path 
of the MiKTeX install).  Might be worth a try running that.


I'm bothered by the fact that the output from your format refresh seems 
to be running pdfetex rather than etex, but I don't know if I should be. 
   When you ran latex against chklatex.ltx, it was (properly) etex that 
ran, albeit unsuccessfully.  One thing you could do just for the sake of 
my curiosity is to take a look at the formats.ini file in the MiKTeX 
config directory (sibling to the MiKTeX bin directory).  In the section 
labeled '[latex]', the compile should be 'etex' and the input should be 
'latex.ltx'.  It's a long-shot, but someone in the list encountered a 
problem because 'latex.exe' was linked to pdflatex on his system.


You might want to take this to comp.text.tex on USENET, or to the help 
forum for MiKTeX (http://www.miktex.org/fora.html).


Or you could try reposting here with a subject line like "MiKTeX 
installation help" that might draw a guru.  It's pretty clear that your 
MiKTeX installation is broken, but I don't know why.


I'll be largely out of the loop until around 26 November, by the way.

Paul (who's brain is cramping)

John Kane wrote:


"Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  


John,

Did you try updating your format files using the MiKTeX Options program 
(General tab, Format files section, Update Now button) and, if so, did 
anything on your computer melt?


Paul

  Arghh! I was afraid I'd forgotten  something!  Thanks.  I just did it.

  Results 
  Creating "latex.efmt"...

  "pdfetex.exe" --ini --interaction=nonstopmode --halt-on-error --alias  
pdflatex *\pdfcompresslevel=9 \pdfdecimaldigits=3 \pdfhorigin=1 true in  \pdfoutput=1 
\pdfpageheight=297 true mm \pdfpagewidth=210 true mm  \pdfoptionpdfminorversion=4 
\pdfpkresolution=600 \pdfvorigin=1 true in  \input latex.ltx \dump
  This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) (INITEX)
  entering extended mode
  (C:\texmf\tex\latex\base\latex.ltx (C:\texmf\tex\latex\00miktex\texsys.cfg)


  !! No syntax for the current directory could be found



  [EMAIL PROTECTED] set to: .


  Assuming \openin and \input 
  have the same search path.

  --And much more dreck-

John Kane wrote:


 Updates on the continuing (non)  installation saga
This replies to a number of postings by Steven and Paul over the Sunday  14 & 
Nov 14, 2005. Hopefully I have not missed any important  suggestions. I decided to 
use Yahoo mail for the list since I don't use  it much otherwise and thought it 
would keep things separate.  Unfortunately I had not realised the rather serious 
limitations of it  for handling a mail list.
 Anyway
I did have an  earlier installation of LyX Small a few weeks ago when I was 
trying to  install LyX 1.3.5. As far as I have been able to tell, there are no  
files/folders left from that attempt. I spend a good while late  yesterday and 
this morning checking. Also checked for *.tex files and  found nothing 
suspicious.
 Since then I have tried both the large  and whole installations both from 
the hard drive.
 The last installation I also disabled  my virus protection.
I have checked and could not find any rogue Latex.exe files and I have  hunted 
down and exterminated the localtexmf and texmf and the only  texmf which was in 
my R folder. I simply removed R for the moment. :)
I copied ltxcheck.tex to C:\texmf ran C:\texmf>latex ltxcheck.tex  with the 
same results as when I ran the 'latex chklatex.ltx' . That is,  files not found 
etc.
 I then tried the c:\fmtutil  –all  with this result
 C:\>fmtutil --all
   'fmtutil' is not  recognized as an internal or external 
command,
 operable program or  batch file.
   
 
   I tried “initex latex.lts  Latex.lts  does not seem to exist. A search of C drive did not find it.

  C:\texmf>initex latex.lts
   This is TeX, Version  3.141592 (MiKTeX 2.4) (INITEX)
   ! I can't find file  `latex.lts'.
   <*> latex.lts
   

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "Users LyX" 
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst
are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?





"Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

John,

Did you try updating your format files using the MiKTeX Options program
(General tab, Format files section, Update Now button) and, if so, did
anything on your computer melt?

Paul

 Arghh! I was afraid I'd forgotten  something!  Thanks.  I just did it.

 Results
 Creating "latex.efmt"...
 "pdfetex.exe" --ini --interaction=nonstopmode --halt-on-error --alias 
pdflatex *\pdfcompresslevel=9 \pdfdecimaldigits=3 \pdfhorigin=1 true in 
\pdfoutput=1 \pdfpageheight=297 true mm \pdfpagewidth=210 true mm 
\pdfoptionpdfminorversion=4 \pdfpkresolution=600 \pdfvorigin=1 true in 
\input latex.ltx \dump

 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) (INITEX)
 entering extended mode
 (C:\texmf\tex\latex\base\latex.ltx 
(C:\texmf\tex\latex\00miktex\texsys.cfg)




Is there actually a latex.ltx file in  (C:\texmf\tex\latex\base\latex.ltx ?
I think you need to run "initex latex.ltx" from above directory first, if
there is a latex.ltx file located there, and then run Miktex Options Update.

I would also play it safe and run LyX --> Edit --> Reconfigure
even if it may be a very unneeded step, or a devious and subtle riposte.

If for some reason you can't run initex latex.ltx first and then run
latex ltxcheck.tex second and get all Oks, that should narrow the
field of problem causes substantially.
I'll check on "preloaded format", unpacking and latex.dtx



 !! No syntax for the current directory could be found



I have both of those directories shown above installed on my computer.

I think the gremlin dongos may have et your latex.ltx,
Stephen

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[John Kane]

"Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  

John,

Did you try updating your format files using the MiKTeX Options program 
(General tab, Format files section, Update Now button) and, if so, did 
anything on your computer melt?

Paul

  Arghh! I was afraid I'd forgotten  something!  Thanks.  I just did it.

  Results 
  Creating "latex.efmt"...
  "pdfetex.exe" --ini --interaction=nonstopmode --halt-on-error --alias  
pdflatex *\pdfcompresslevel=9 \pdfdecimaldigits=3 \pdfhorigin=1 true in  
\pdfoutput=1 \pdfpageheight=297 true mm \pdfpagewidth=210 true mm  
\pdfoptionpdfminorversion=4 \pdfpkresolution=600 \pdfvorigin=1 true in  \input 
latex.ltx \dump
  This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) (INITEX)
  entering extended mode
  (C:\texmf\tex\latex\base\latex.ltx (C:\texmf\tex\latex\00miktex\texsys.cfg)


  !! No syntax for the current directory could be found



  [EMAIL PROTECTED] set to: .


  Assuming \openin and \input 
  have the same search path.
  --And much more dreck-

John Kane wrote:
>   Updates on the continuing (non)  installation saga
>  This replies to a number of postings by Steven and Paul over the Sunday  14 
> & Nov 14, 2005. Hopefully I have not missed any important  suggestions. I 
> decided to use Yahoo mail for the list since I don't use  it much otherwise 
> and thought it would keep things separate.  Unfortunately I had not realised 
> the rather serious limitations of it  for handling a mail list.
>   Anyway
> I did have an  earlier installation of LyX Small a few weeks ago when I was 
> trying to  install LyX 1.3.5. As far as I have been able to tell, there are 
> no  files/folders left from that attempt. I spend a good while late  
> yesterday and this morning checking. Also checked for *.tex files and  found 
> nothing suspicious.
>   Since then I have tried both the large  and whole installations both 
> from the hard drive.
>   The last installation I also disabled  my virus protection.
>  I have checked and could not find any rogue Latex.exe files and I have  
> hunted down and exterminated the localtexmf and texmf and the only  texmf 
> which was in my R folder. I simply removed R for the moment. :)
>  I copied ltxcheck.tex to C:\texmf ran C:\texmf>latex ltxcheck.tex  with the 
> same results as when I ran the 'latex chklatex.ltx' . That is,  files not 
> found etc.
>   I then tried the c:\fmtutil  –all  with this result
>   C:\>fmtutil --all
> 'fmtutil' is not  recognized as an internal or external 
> command,
>   operable program or  batch file.
> 
>   
> I tried “initex latex.lts  Latex.lts  does not seem to exist. A search of 
> C drive did not find it.
>C:\texmf>initex latex.lts
> This is TeX, Version  3.141592 (MiKTeX 2.4) (INITEX)
> ! I can't find file  `latex.lts'.
> <*> latex.lts
> 






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Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Paul A. Rubin]

John,

Did you try updating your format files using the MiKTeX Options program 
(General tab, Format files section, Update Now button) and, if so, did 
anything on your computer melt?


Paul

John Kane wrote:

  Updates on the continuing (non)  installation saga
  This replies to a number of postings by  Steven and Paul over the Sunday 14 
& Nov 14, 2005. Hopefully I  have not missed any important suggestions. I 
decided to use Yahoo  mail for the list since I don't use it much otherwise and 
thought it  would keep things separate. Unfortunately I had not realised the  
rather serious limitations of it for handling a mail list.
  Anyway
  I did have an earlier installation of  LyX Small a few weeks ago when I 
was trying to install LyX 1.3.5. As  far as I have been able to tell, there are 
no files/folders left from  that attempt. I spend a good while late yesterday 
and this morning  checking.  Also checked for *.tex files and found nothing 
suspicious.
  Since then I have tried both the large  and whole installations both from 
the hard drive.
  The last installation I also disabled  my virus protection.
  I have checked and could not find any  rogue Latex.exe files and I have 
hunted down and exterminated the  localtexmf and texmf and the only texmf which 
was in my R folder. I  simply removed R for the moment. :)
  I copied ltxcheck.tex to C:\texmf ran  C:\texmf>latex ltxcheck.tex with 
the same results as when I ran  the 'latex chklatex.ltx' .  That is, files not 
found etc.
  I then tried the c:\fmtutil  –all  with this result
  C:\>fmtutil --all
'fmtutil' is not  recognized as an internal or external 
command,
  operable program or  batch file.

  
I tried “initex latex.lts  Latex.lts  does not seem to exist. A search of C drive did not find it.

   C:\texmf>initex latex.lts
This is TeX, Version  3.141592 (MiKTeX 2.4) (INITEX)
! I can't find file  `latex.lts'.
<*> latex.lts

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[John Kane]

  Updates on the continuing (non)  installation saga
  This replies to a number of postings by  Steven and Paul over the Sunday 
14 & Nov 14, 2005. Hopefully I  have not missed any important suggestions. I 
decided to use Yahoo  mail for the list since I don't use it much otherwise and 
thought it  would keep things separate. Unfortunately I had not realised the  
rather serious limitations of it for handling a mail list.
  Anyway
  I did have an earlier installation of  LyX Small a few weeks ago when I 
was trying to install LyX 1.3.5. As  far as I have been able to tell, there are 
no files/folders left from  that attempt. I spend a good while late yesterday 
and this morning  checking.  Also checked for *.tex files and found nothing 
suspicious.
  Since then I have tried both the large  and whole installations both from 
the hard drive.
  The last installation I also disabled  my virus protection.
  I have checked and could not find any  rogue Latex.exe files and I have 
hunted down and exterminated the  localtexmf and texmf and the only texmf which 
was in my R folder. I  simply removed R for the moment. :)
  I copied ltxcheck.tex to C:\texmf ran  C:\texmf>latex ltxcheck.tex with 
the same results as when I ran  the 'latex chklatex.ltx' .  That is, files not 
found etc.
  I then tried the c:\fmtutil  –all  with this result
  C:\>fmtutil --all
'fmtutil' is not  recognized as an internal or external 
command,
  operable program or  batch file.

  
I tried “initex latex.lts  Latex.lts  does not seem to exist. A search of C 
drive did not find it.
   C:\texmf>initex latex.lts
This is TeX, Version  3.141592 (MiKTeX 2.4) (INITEX)
! I can't find file  `latex.lts'.
<*> latex.lts

  You suggested that I try printing  outside the LyX environment but I have not 
 a clue how to do this.  Nothing re printing etc can be seen in the View menu.  
As noted  before I cannot print or export except in ASCII. Custom export leaves 
 me with a blank command line.  Should I be able to type in a command?  
  I just noticed from the mailing list  that a new LyX installer is out.  I 
may bring in the exterminators  again, sanitize the machine and give it a try.
  Thanks for all the help so far. I  certainly have learned a lot (most of 
it useful :)  and recalled a  bunch of DOS commands I would happily had remain 
forgotten.
  John Kane, Kingston ON  Canada

  
  


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Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " 
so no output. Any suggestions?



You got the same result as me so our approaches must be the same while 
John has strayed from the righteous path,

and I'm looking for some small difference in our steps.


Your logic is sound, but there are some wild-cards out there (for 
instance, an anti-virus program selectively interfering with his 
installation).


Cheers,
Paul



Thanks for taking the time to make a detailed response.
I'm sure John will succeed is he just doesn't give up.
Google reported not building a latex.fmt file during setup
was a problem with Miktex and the symptom was Miktex
trying to rebuild the formatting like his webpage link. But
the last report I saw was in 2004. I saw a report of an old
.emacs file causing one problem, solvable by changing the
location of Cygwin in the path.

Poetic Diction is not blind,
Stephen 

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Paul A. Rubin]

Stephen Harris wrote:

I'm wondering if John might have done a net install in which he didn't 
download the files first with setup.exe

and then run setup.exe again to build the installation.
That is how I ran the Miktex install, how did you do it?


I did it three different ways on three different machines.  On one, I 
downloaded the "minimal" installer, ran setup, then downloaded selected 
packages using the package manager.  On a second, I downloaded the 
larger installer and ran that.  On a third, I installed from a CD-R on 
which I'd burned the installation files from one of the first two.


If John bypassed storing the files and then installing, the net install 
might miss a file or run just a little askew. Seems like he should know 
if he had an old *tex version install.


Seems unlikely to me that the MiKTeX installer might skip or lose an 
essential cab file and not throw up an error message, but I've worked in 
the Windoze world long enough to believe just about anything bad is 
possible.  As for the older version, I thought he alluded in one post to 
upgrading a prior MiKTeX installation, but I might have hallucinated that.


You got the same result as me so our approaches must be the same while 
John has strayed from the righteous path,

and I'm looking for some small difference in our steps.


Your logic is sound, but there are some wild-cards out there (for 
instance, an anti-virus program selectively interfering with his 
installation).


Cheers,
Paul

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst 
are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?



Paul



I'm wondering if John might have done a net install in 
which he didn't download the files first with setup.exe

and then run setup.exe again to build the installation.
That is how I ran the Miktex install, how did you do it?

If John bypassed storing the files and then installing, the 
net install might miss a file or run just a little askew. Seems 
like he should know if he had an old *tex version install.


You got the same result as me so our approaches must be 
the same while John has strayed from the righteous path,

and I'm looking for some small difference in our steps.

Regards,
Stephen

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " 
so no output. Any suggestions?




I'll read up on latex.fmt,
Stephen


I copied latex.ltx from the base directory into the parent
texmf directory because I didn't want to take a chance
on producing a copy of latex.fmt which overwrote the
existing file. The command is "initex latex.ltx" which
then produced a latex.fmt file. The output of the process
looked very much like the output which John produced at
http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/LatexLog12nov05.pdf
latex.fmt is an executable type file with those weird squiqqleys.

I think John should try this and compare it to my result. It is a
bit long so I will send an attachment to him apart from the list.
I'm a bit worried that it won't work because of a malevolent
presence sabotaging the best laid plans of mice and men.

Scotts Steinbeck,
Stephen 

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " 
so no output. Any suggestions?




2.  I've attached the file used to test your LaTeX

installation. and run 'latex chklatex.ltx'.  It should cough up a
log file, that should contain the string 'ThisIsLaTeX2e'
(lack of spaces intentional).


I ran the 'latex chklatex.ltx' file.  No sign of 'ThisIsLaTeX2e' as far 
as I can see. The log is at

http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/LatexLog12nov05.pdf
.


Roger that.  For comparison purposes, here is what I get on my system:

--- log begins ---
This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) (preloaded format=latex 
2005.11.4)  13 NOV 2005 15:56

entering extended mode
**chklatex.ltx
(chklatex.ltx
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel  and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, 
nohyphenation, ge

rman, ngerman, french, loaded.

ThisIsLaTeX2e )
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 6 strings out of 95901
 56 string characters out of 1195189
 44793 words of memory out of 1048577
 3139 multiletter control sequences out of 6
 3640 words of font info for 14 fonts, out of 100 for 2000
 14 hyphenation exceptions out of 4999
 5i,0n,1p,49b,8s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,1p,20b,32768s

No pages of output.
--- log ends ---



This is what I get also though the direct output was slightly different.

So something seems amiss with MiKTeX, and if I had to guess I would say 
that there is a configuration file somewhere that has developed an 
unfortunate sense of humor.  Unfortunately, my knowledge of LaTeX in 
general and MiKTeX in particular does not go very far beyond the funky 
capitalizations thereof.  I note that my log mentions a preloaded format 
and yours does not.  You might try running the MiKTeX Options program from 
the Start menu, clicking the Update Now button on the general tab. If you 
upgraded an old MiKTeX (as the paragraph below suggests) and did not 
rediddle the formats, things could get dicey.  (I had font generation go 
on hiatus until I did a format refresh.)




Well, the installation not building a format file (latex.fmt) is looking 
more

likely. John's log file ends with "initexmf: The file "latex.efmt" could not
be found. cannot make latex.efmt I can't find the default format file!"

I read of another problem with the format file caused in this
case of fptex .4 for windows being overinstalled by fptex .4.


Thank you Prof. Ripley.  I'll bet it is the .fmt file(s). Isn't
there a way to just rebuild the formats w/o a complete make/remake


Yes, sure :

c:\>fmtutil --all

It depends on what you have installed, but clearly, you have a 0.4
format file found by your 0.5 installation. [for windows fptex]
Fabrice

SH: But John didn't mention he had a prior version of *tex installed.


The annoying thing is that I spend an hour and a half
downloading and installing a new copy of MiKTeX and I
thought that I had manged to kill off everything from
the old installation. Well another clean sweep
tomorrow or Monday and I'll see what happens.


Try the update thingy first, lest the re-re-install waste time.


Well, it has the merit of being quick and painless.
Miktex options, refresh database and fonts etc.


Before installing LyX  I checked and all of the above
programs loaded including latex.exe.

According to computer I also had gswview which also
loaded.
C:\GSTools\gsview (gsview32.exe)


This all looks copacetic.  > Paul



It looks like the cure is to eliminate any conflict with
creating a working format file, I think called latex.fmt.
Sometimes installing over a prior version doesn't seem
to hurt at all and other times its a recipe for disaster.
There have been no other reports of problems with the
Miktex "large" install. Not everybody used small or total.

I'll read up on latex.fmt,
Stephen 

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Paul A. Rubin]

John Kane wrote:

From a DOS prompt, try the following:


1.  Type 'path' to get the system path.  Make sure that 

>>(a) the MiKTeX  bin directory is properly listed and (b) no directory

ahead of it contains a file named latex.exe.


Appears not to: Path is 
c:\program

files\imagemagick-6.2.5-q16;C:\Perl\bin\;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program
Files\Common Files\MDL Shared\ISIS;C:\msys\1.0\bin

and I don't see anything in texmf or miktex  that
looks suspicious


The output you posted shows that you are executing the latex.exe 
provided by MiKTeX, which confirms the lack of suspects here.



2.  I've attached the file used to test your LaTeX
installation. and run 'latex chklatex.ltx'.  It should cough up a
log file, that should contain the string 'ThisIsLaTeX2e'
(lack of spaces intentional).


I ran the 'latex chklatex.ltx' file.  No sign of 
'ThisIsLaTeX2e' as far as I can see. The log is at

http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/LatexLog12nov05.pdf
. 


Roger that.  For comparison purposes, here is what I get on my system:

--- log begins ---
This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) (preloaded format=latex 
2005.11.4)  13 NOV 2005 15:56

entering extended mode
**chklatex.ltx
(chklatex.ltx
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel  and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, 
nohyphenation, ge

rman, ngerman, french, loaded.

ThisIsLaTeX2e )
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 6 strings out of 95901
 56 string characters out of 1195189
 44793 words of memory out of 1048577
 3139 multiletter control sequences out of 6
 3640 words of font info for 14 fonts, out of 100 for 2000
 14 hyphenation exceptions out of 4999
 5i,0n,1p,49b,8s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,1p,20b,32768s

No pages of output.
--- log ends ---

So something seems amiss with MiKTeX, and if I had to guess I would say 
that there is a configuration file somewhere that has developed an 
unfortunate sense of humor.  Unfortunately, my knowledge of LaTeX in 
general and MiKTeX in particular does not go very far beyond the funky 
capitalizations thereof.  I note that my log mentions a preloaded format 
and yours does not.  You might try running the MiKTeX Options program 
from the Start menu, clicking the Update Now button on the general tab. 
 If you upgraded an old MiKTeX (as the paragraph below suggests) and 
did not rediddle the formats, things could get dicey.  (I had font 
generation go on hiatus until I did a format refresh.)



The annoying thing is that I spend an hour and a half
downloading and installing a new copy of MiKTeX and I
thought that I had manged to kill off everything from
the old installation. Well another clean sweep
tomorrow or Monday and I'll see what happens. 


Try the update thingy first, lest the re-re-install waste time.  Someone 
once said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly 
but expecting different results.  They obviously were not installing 
software when they wrote that (or else equated installing software with 
insanity, which might not be entirely incorrect).


Below is a quick summary of what I think I have at the
moment.

Thanks for all the help. I get the feeling that this
may not be impossible after all.

Installed files and paths 


Actual according to the LyX installer
C:\msys\1.0\bin (sh.exe)
C:\Python23 (Python.exe)
C:\texmf\miktex\bin (latex.exe)
C:\Perl\bin (Perl.exe)
C:\Program Files\gs\gs8.51\bin  (gswin32c.exe)
C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.2.5-Q16  (convert.exe)
C:\LyX

Before installing LyX  I checked and all of the above
programs loaded including latex.exe.

According to computer I also had gswview which also
loaded.
C:\GSTools\gsview   (gsview32.exe)


LyX path after installation
C:\msys\1.0\bin;C:\Python23;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\Perl\bin;C:\Program
Files\gs\gs8.51\bin;C:\Program
Files\ImageMagick-6.2.5-Q16

I added the gsview path and reconfigured. New LyX 
paths

C:\msys\1.0\bin;C:\Python23;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\Perl\bin;C:\Program
Files\gs\gs8.51\bin;C:\Program
Files\ImageMagick-6.2.5-Q16;C:\GSTools\gsview

Systems Paths
c:\program
files\imagemagick-6.2.5-q16;C:\Perl\bin\;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program
Files\Common Files\MDL Shared\ISIS;C:\msys\1.0\bin



This all looks copacetic.  I should have mentioned earlier that (IIRC) 
you have to install Ghostscript before you install Ghostgum.  If you did 
them in the opposite order, that might explain your registry adventure 
(although I think if you try to install Ghostgum first it just punts). 
Also, once upon a time LyX users on Windows experienced major problems 
if Ghostscript was installed in a path containing spaces (for instance, 
under Program Files).  I ended up installing it under C:\gs (after 
trying it under Program

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[John Kane]

--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> John Kane wrote:
> 
> > Obviously, as a student you, did not have the card
> > reader  shred your  computer deck ½ hours before
the
> > assignment was due and all you needed was a clean
> > printout.
> 
> No, but I have the dubious distinction of having
> rested a box of punch cards on the roof of my car
whilst unlocking it, and
> then driving off  without bringing them into the
car. 
> (Unsurprisingly, the cards did not  drive off as far
as I did.  Something about inertia,
> I believe.)

Simply a human factors problem. I was the victim of
the blind malevolence of  an IBM keypunch machine.
What a way to start a Monday!  I am still traumatized.


> > I've posted the log and a screen shot of the
directory 
>>
athttp://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/sh_configure_output1.pdf

> Well, the output from the configuration script is in
fact interesting. Note the first three lines.

Yes I thought they looked ominous but I didn't know
what to do about them except re-install MiKTex.
 
> Best to double check things here.  From a DOS>
prompt, try the following:
> 
> 1.  Type 'path' to get the system path.  Make sure
that (a) the MiKTeX  bin 
> directory is properly listed and (b) no directory
ahead of it  contains a file named latex.exe.

Appears not to: Path is 
c:\program
files\imagemagick-6.2.5-q16;C:\Perl\bin\;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program
Files\Common Files\MDL Shared\ISIS;C:\msys\1.0\bin

and I don't see anything in texmf or miktex  that
looks suspicious

> 
> 2.  I've attached the file used to test your LaTeX
> installation. and run 'latex chklatex.ltx'.  It
should cough up a
> log file, that should contain the string
'ThisIsLaTeX2e'
> (lack of spaces 
>  If  not, there may be a  problem with the MiKTeX
installation.  If that does
> work, then we will  need to do a small bit of
surgery to the installation script to find out 
> why it doesn't like your latex.exe file.
 
I ran the 'latex chklatex.ltx' file.  No sign of 
'ThisIsLaTeX2e' as far as I can see. The log is at
http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/LatexLog12nov05.pdf
. 
The annoying thing is that I spend an hour and a half
downloading and installing a new copy of MiKTeX and I
thought that I had manged to kill off everything from
the old installation. Well another clean sweep
tomorrow or Monday and I'll see what happens. 

Below is a quick summary of what I think I have at the
moment.

Thanks for all the help. I get the feeling that this
may not be impossible after all.

Installed files and paths 

Actual according to the LyX installer
C:\msys\1.0\bin (sh.exe)
C:\Python23 (Python.exe)
C:\texmf\miktex\bin (latex.exe)
C:\Perl\bin (Perl.exe)
C:\Program Files\gs\gs8.51\bin  (gswin32c.exe)
C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.2.5-Q16  (convert.exe)
C:\LyX

Before installing LyX  I checked and all of the above
programs loaded including latex.exe.

According to computer I also had gswview which also
loaded.
C:\GSTools\gsview   (gsview32.exe)


LyX path after installation
C:\msys\1.0\bin;C:\Python23;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\Perl\bin;C:\Program
Files\gs\gs8.51\bin;C:\Program
Files\ImageMagick-6.2.5-Q16

I added the gsview path and reconfigured. New LyX 
paths
C:\msys\1.0\bin;C:\Python23;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\Perl\bin;C:\Program
Files\gs\gs8.51\bin;C:\Program
Files\ImageMagick-6.2.5-Q16;C:\GSTools\gsview

Systems Paths
c:\program
files\imagemagick-6.2.5-q16;C:\Perl\bin\;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program
Files\Common Files\MDL Shared\ISIS;C:\msys\1.0\bin








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Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Paul A. Rubin]

John Kane wrote:


Obviously, as a student you, did not have the card
reader  shred your  computer deck ½ hours before the
assignment was due and all you needed was a clean
printout.


No, but I have the dubious distinction of having rested a box of punch 
cards on the roof of my car whilst unlocking it, and then driving off 
without bringing them into the car.  (Unsurprisingly, the cards did not 
drive off as far as I did.  Something about inertia, I believe.)



I have installed R, OpenOffice.org, Endnote and a few
other things on this machine so I assume I have
administrator's rights.  


Seems likely.


 Post myresults.txt so we can see if  something went
splat.

Splat.  Looks remarkably like what I saw when I
installed LyX.  I just did not know how to capture the
text flow before. 


I've posted the log and a screen shot of the directory
at
http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/sh_configure_output1.pdf



Well, the output from the configuration script is in fact interesting. 
Note the first three lines.  The configuration script will look first 
for latex.exe and then, if necessary, for latex2e.exe, searching your 
system command path each time.  If it finds either, it will test the 
program's functionality on a dummy LaTeX document file.  Unfortunately, 
if a broken version of latex.exe is found, the script moves on to 
latex2e.exe, rather than continuing to search the command path.


Note that the script apparently found a latex.exe program but decided it 
was not usable (i.e., broken), then moved on to latex2e.exe, which it 
never found.  Lack of latex2e.exe is normal, but no working latex.exe 
means no joy using LyX.  So the next question to investigate is why it 
thought the copy of latex.exe it found was not usable.


If I recall correctly, you ran 'latex --version' using the latex.exe 
file in the MiKTeX bin directory and got a valid answer from it, which 
would suggest that it in fact works (although there might still be set 
up problems with the classes, I suppose).  When I've encountered this 
particular pathology in the past, it has usually been because the user 
had installed something else (Cygwin in my case) that contained an 
older, broken or improperly installed latex.exe, and that was ahead of 
the correct latex.exe on the command path.  I did not mention this 
before because you posted your command path and I saw the MiKTeX bin 
directory on it fairly early (and in particular ahead of anything likely 
to contain latex.exe).


Best to double check things here.  From a DOS prompt, try the following:

1.  Type 'path' to get the system path.  Make sure that (a) the MiKTeX 
bin directory is properly listed and (b) no directory ahead of it 
contains a file named latex.exe.


2.  I've attached the file used to test your LaTeX installation.  Plop 
it down anywhere except your MiKTeX bin directory, cd to that directory, 
and run 'latex chklatex.ltx'.  It should cough up a log file, and the 
log file should contain the string 'ThisIsLaTeX2e' (lack of spaces 
deliberate) after the initial heading stuff.  If not, there may be a 
problem with the MiKTeX installation.  If that does work, then we will 
need to do a small bit of surgery to the installation script to find out 
why it doesn't like your latex.exe file.


Paul

\nonstopmode\makeatletter
\ifx\undefined\documentclass\else
  \message{ThisIsLaTeX2e}
\fi
\@@end

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false "
so no output. Any suggestions?



SH asked:  Have you installed ghostgum?


No I am getting a failure on that. See my later
posting on that. I seem to be having a problem getting
GSview to write to the registry.



I tried to find the error message "failed to add ps file association"
on Google and couldn't. Perhaps it does relate to permissions or
a prior setting. Speculating, do you have a postscript printer that
might have usurped the .ps file suffix (maybe network printer)?
I suppose you have tried making a new file association prior with
Windows Explorer/Tools/Folder Options prior to trying to install
GSview, though I am not sure that will help. Is there a prior ps file
association from the Ghostscript install or administrative fiat?

Never seen sech a confounded sight in all my dognabbed days,
Stephen

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "Users LyX" 
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " 
so no output. Any suggestions?




--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

John Kane wrote:
>> I think you said that the MinSYS bin directory
>>(c:\msys\1.0\bin?) was on the LyX internal path
>
> No it was not.  I've added it. Still getting the

error

> after restarting LyX

That's not surprising.  Have you tried

Edit->Reconfigure after adding it

to the LyX path?
>
  > But DOS is not that far removed from punch
cards!

Which worked admirably, and hence had to be
superseded by something > newer and less reliable.


Obviously, as a student you, did not have the card
reader  shred your  computer deck ½ hours before the
assignment was due and all you needed was a clean
printout.

I have installed R, OpenOffice.org, Endnote and a few
other things on this machine so I assume I have
administrator's rights.



And also LyX. I think the problem may be more basic.
Installing both programs, Ghostscript and then Ghostview.

If you celebrate both Thanksgivings, you can have moose as
the main course of one dinner and wolverine at the second.

Regards,
Stephen 

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[John Kane]

--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Kane wrote:
> >> I think you said that the MinSYS bin directory  
> >>(c:\msys\1.0\bin?) was on the LyX internal path 
> > 
> > No it was not.  I've added it. Still getting the
error
> > after restarting LyX
> 
> That's not surprising.  Have you tried
Edit->Reconfigure after adding it 
> to the LyX path?
> > 
>   > But DOS is not that far removed from punch
> cards!
> 
> Which worked admirably, and hence had to be
> superseded by something > newer and less reliable.

Obviously, as a student you, did not have the card
reader  shred your  computer deck ½ hours before the
assignment was due and all you needed was a clean
printout.

I have installed R, OpenOffice.org, Endnote and a few
other things on this machine so I assume I have
administrator's rights.  

 Post myresults.txt so we can see if  something went
splat.

Splat.  Looks remarkably like what I saw when I
installed LyX.  I just did not know how to capture the
text flow before. 

I've posted the log and a screen shot of the directory
at
http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/sh_configure_output1.pdf

> Not really.  You can find an ample supply of
> wolverines on the  University of Michigan campus
(Ann Arbor, MI, USA). 

Oh yes,  of course,  msu.edu!   I suppose the ritual
sacrifice of one or two Wolverines is a monthly
occurrence in Lancing (sp?).  My mother went to WMU
and a cousin graduated from your shop.

Thanks for the time and help.  






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Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Paul A. Rubin]

John Kane wrote:
I think you said that the MinSYS bin directory  
(c:\msys\1.0\bin?) was on the LyX internal path 



No it was not.  I've added it. Still getting the error
after restarting LyX


That's not surprising.  Have you tried Edit->Reconfigure after adding it 
to the LyX path?



 > But DOS is not that far removed from punch cards!

Which worked admirably, and hence had to be superseded by something 
newer and less reliable.


Another related question:if you click Help->LaTeX configuration in 
LyX, what do you see for the following:  the date
the file was generated 



I get “???”



the date of the LaTeX version (section 1);



I get “???”



which standard classes were found (section 3 -- each
class has a Found: yes/no entry)?



I get “???” for all classes


Ok, that confirms that the configuration script failed to run.  The 
usual causes are among the following:  it couldn't find sh, grep or sed 
(presumably remedied by adding the msys\1.0\bin directory to the LyX 
path); you had a bad (old) version of sed (ruled out in your case by 
using MinSYS 1.0); the configuration script failed to find a working 
copy of latex.exe (unlikely given that the MiKTeX bin directory is on 
your system path and you got the latex version number when you tested 
it); or the configuration results got written to an inaccessible 
directory.  The last one would likely involve some sort of permissions 
issue with your "personal" application data directory.


If you have not tried Edit->Reconfigure since adding the msys\1.0\bin 
directory to the LyX internal path prefix, that is the next order of 
business.  If that fails to resolve things, open a DOS window in the 
directory where the configure script lives and run 'sh configure > 
myresults.txt' there.  It should run now that the msys\1.0\bin directory 
is on your system path (you did add it there as well, via My Computer, 
right?).  Post myresults.txt so we can see if something went splat.





I checked to local stores and not a wolverine to be
seen. Would a fisher do?


Not really.  You can find an ample supply of wolverines on the 
University of Michigan campus (Ann Arbor, MI, USA).  It's also the state 
animal of Michigan, but IIRC it's not indigenous, so I suppose the ones 
at UM are out-of-state students.


Paul

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Paul A. Rubin]

John Kane wrote:



Simply, that is because in this case the command needs
to be typed  from the command prompt at


C:\LyX\Resources\LyX> C:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure

OH, the long (and thankfully)  forgotten joys of DOS.
Absolute paths!

But it still does not work.  See
http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/sh_configure_error.pdf
for a screen shot.


I'm guessing you did this before you added the msys\1.0\bin directory to 
the system path.  The not found messages would be because grep.exe and 
sed.exe are in the same directory with sh.exe.  The absolute path lets 
it find sh but is of no assistance with grep and sed.







Have you installed ghostgum?



No I am getting a failure on that. See my later
posting on that. I seem to be having a problem getting
GSview to write to the registry. 


I looked at the screen-shot you posted of the Ghostgum installer's 
death-rattle.  It looks as though you're right; it appears to have 
installed Ghostgum but failed while attempting to set file associations 
in the registry.  Are you an administrator on your machine?  If not, you 
may need to have someone with administrator rights do the installation.


In any case, if the only thing that gorked was the file associations, 
that's not critical.  You need file associations in order to 
double-click a .ps file and have GSView open automatically, but LyX does 
not rely on that.  If GSView was added to your Start menu, try starting 
it from there.  If not, try opening a DOS prompt in the C:\Program 
Files\Ghostgum\gsview directory and running 'gsview32'.  If GSView 
starts, you're in business; add it to the LyX application path 
(Edit->Preferences->Paths->PATH prefix).  Might not be a bad idea to add 
the directory the system path as well.  If GSView works but the 
installer never got around to creating shortcuts on the Start menu, we 
can remedy that manually.  (Obviously, the best thing would be if we 
could get it to install correctly.  If you're not a system admin on your 
machine, I would definitely try enlisting one's help.)


Paul



 


You ran from LyX, Edit --> Reconfigure  ? after


putting c:\ghostgum\gsview in the


Lyx path prefix? You need both ghostgum and


ghostscript. I saw Paul question this also:

No since I never got gsview to install.



You're seeing them in LyX via View->TeX


Information?  That's


inconsistent with the textclass not found


messages> (assuming that


textclass XX is in the TeX Information list).


John replied:


Yes, they are appearing in  View->TeX Information. 


I


.now have entries for all three categories and


following Steven's advice I have checked and


confirmed> that they also are present in the


directory ( I did a


dir *cls and got 10 files.)


SH: Those .cls files are spread out through the


c:\texmf


and the subdirectories beneath. I think the best way
is to run Windows Search, use *.cls for the files to
find  and focus the search on c:\texmf; that will


find and


report .cls in sub-directories of c:\texmf also
There should be 50 or 60 cls files reported under
TeX Information if you scroll down.



Yes they are there. The 10 were just the ones in one
subdir. I should have mentioned that.

Thanks for the dir > dir.txt advice.  







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Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[John Kane]

--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Kane wrote:
> > Path=C:\Perl\bin\;c:program
files\imanemagick-6.2.5_q16;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;c:\WINDOWS\system32;C:WINDOWS;C;\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:Program
> > Files\Common Files\MDL Shared\ISIS
> 
> I'm getting a bit out of sync with what you put in
your replies to 
> Stephen, but I think you said that the MinSYS bin
directory 
> (c:\msys\1.0\bin?) was on the LyX internal path 

No it was not.  I've added it. Still getting the error
after restarting LyX

> > I'd forgotten there even were things like Paths. I
> > have not seen a DOS prompt since I bought a Mac
back
> > in 1988.
> 
> Well, there's your problem.  Macs stimulate use of
the 
>righthemisphere of your brain, probably to the
detriment of the left
> hemisphere.  Windows requires extensive use of the
left
> hemisphere, which among other  things controls the
utterance of >foul language.

But DOS is not that far removed from punch cards!  Oh
well at least I missed CP/M


> > BTW is there some way to pipe that DOS
> > stuff to a text file?  I copied that Path info by
> > hand. 
> 
> Yes, 
Thanks, it is good to see that DOS had progressed in
the 15 year since I suffered it.  

> 
> Back to the textclass “XX” is not found messages.
>Are you getting that 
> when you start LyX, when you try to create a new
> document in LyX, or what?  

I am getting it when 
a) I open a help document
b) When I open a document I have created and saved.

I do not get it when I create a new document.

> Another related question:if you click Help->LaTeX 
configuration in 
> LyX, what do you see for the following:  the date
> the file was generated 

I get “???”

>the date of the LaTeX version (section 1);

I get “???”

> which standard classes were found (section 3 -- each
> class has a Found: yes/no entry)?

I get “???” for all classes

> >>(On a side note, have> you considered 
> >>sacrificing a small furry animal to the gods of 
> >>computing before installing things?  Works for
> me.)
> > 
> > Small furry animal be damned, I'm considering
> > something like a black bear.  I'm a bit too far 
south
> > for a moose.
> 
> Just as well, antlers don't burn well.  Just avoid
> endangered species. 
> Wolverines always make good sacrifices, by the way
> (not to mention  they're not of much use otherwise).

I checked to local stores and not a wolverine to be
seen. Would a fisher do?

Thanks for the help.

John Kane, Kingston ON  Canada






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Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[John Kane]

--- Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> - Original Message - 
> From: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Users LyX"
> 
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 8:57 AM
> Subject: Re: Installation Problem. All entries in
> Textclass.lst are "false " 
> so no output. Any suggestions?

> > --- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> John Kane wrote:
> >
> >> Assuming sh works, you might try running the
configure script in the DOS
> >> window.  Change to the directory C:\Program
> >> Files\LyX\Resources\lyx,
> >> verify that a file named 'configure' is there,
and
> >> then execute 'sh configure'.
> >>That runs the configuration script.
> >
> > Does not work
>
> Simply, that is because in this case the command
needs
> to be typed  from the command prompt at
C:\LyX\Resources\LyX> C:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure

OH, the long (and thankfully)  forgotten joys of DOS.
Absolute paths!

But it still does not work.  See
http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/sh_configure_error.pdf
for a screen shot.

> You'll notice from the screen capture shcfg1.jpg 
that I have
> a file named textclass.lst (289) Do you have this
> file?

Yes I do
> 
> There is a textclass.lst error message that meansthe
> whole install failed. It sounds to me that have LyX
> installed if you can run LyX's View-->TexInformation
> and you are talking about generating a document?

Generating a document?  Well I opened a new document
typed in a line of text and saved it. Somewhere along
that line I checked the  LyX's View -->Tex 
Information and got the lists.
I still get an error message if I reopen the document.

> Also when I ran that C:~.\sh.exe configure it 
tampered  with my LyX configuration and I received an
error
> message: "LyX wasn't able to find any layout
description!
> Check the contents of the file "textclass.lst"
Sorry, has
> to exit." I thought you were reporting a similar 
error.

No not at all. I cannot even get the sh.exe to work

> Anyway easy enough to fix. I need to drag that Lyx
directory from C:\documents and settings\etc\etc
> into the Recycle Bin, uninstall LyX, and then run
the  installation again.
> 
> Of course you may recall I said that I have to add 
the function of gsview32.exe  (LyX tends to miss
that.)
> By going to Edit -->Preferences -->Path --> Path >
prefix
> and adding C:\ghostgum\gsview to the path statement
c:\ghostgum\gsview\ contains gsview32.exe
> Have you installed ghostgum?

No I am getting a failure on that. See my later
posting on that. I seem to be having a problem getting
GSview to write to the registry. 

 
> You ran from LyX, Edit --> Reconfigure  ? after
putting c:\ghostgum\gsview in the
> Lyx path prefix? You need both ghostgum and
ghostscript. I saw Paul question this also:

No since I never got gsview to install.

> 
> >>You're seeing them in LyX via View->TeX
Information?  That's
> >>inconsistent with the textclass not found
messages> (assuming that
> >>textclass XX is in the TeX Information list).
> 
> John replied:
> 
>> Yes, they are appearing in  View->TeX Information. 
I
>>.now have entries for all three categories and
following Steven's advice I have checked and
>> confirmed> that they also are present in the
directory ( I did a
>> dir *cls and got 10 files.)
> 
> SH: Those .cls files are spread out through the
c:\texmf
> and the subdirectories beneath. I think the best way
> is to run Windows Search, use *.cls for the files to
> find  and focus the search on c:\texmf; that will
find and
> report .cls in sub-directories of c:\texmf also
> There should be 50 or 60 cls files reported under
> TeX Information if you scroll down.

Yes they are there. The 10 were just the ones in one
subdir. I should have mentioned that.

Thanks for the dir > dir.txt advice.  






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Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Paul A. Rubin]

John Kane wrote:



Path=C:\Perl\bin\;c:program
files\imanemagick-6.2.5_q16;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;c:\WINDOWS\system32;C:WINDOWS;C;\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:Program
Files\Common Files\MDL Shared\ISIS


I'm getting a bit out of sync with what you put in your replies to 
Stephen, but I think you said that the MinSYS bin directory 
(c:\msys\1.0\bin?) was on the LyX internal path 
(Edit->Preferences->Paths->PATH prefix in LyX).  If not, it would be a 
good idea to add it there and click Save.  In any event, it's probably a 
good idea to add it to your system path (this is why 'sh configure' 
failed).  To do that right-click on My Computer, click Properties, click 
on the Advanced tab, click Environment Variables, highlight PATH in 
either the user variables window or the system variables window, click 
edit, prepend 'c:\msys\1.0\bin;' to the path, and then OK your way back 
to reality.  The only difference between user variables and system 
variables is that the former adds it to the path only when you are 
logged in and the latter adds it when anybody is logged in.  Once done, 
you should be able to run 'sh configure' from a DOS prompt in the 
appropriate directory.


I'd forgotten there even were things like Paths. I
have not seen a DOS prompt since I bought a Mac back
in 1988.


Well, there's your problem.  Macs stimulate use of the right hemisphere 
of your brain, probably to the detriment of the left hemisphere. 
Windows requires extensive use of the left hemisphere, which among other 
things controls the utterance of foul language.




BTW is there some way to pipe that DOS
stuff to a text file?  I copied that Path info by
hand. 


Yes, you can issue a command such as 'path > mypath.txt' (of course, 
then you have to figure out where mypath.txt wound up).  Also, if you 
need to copy stuff (such as error messages) out of a DOS window, you can 
 left-click the "system" button in the far left corner of the title bar 
(where the Apple icon would be if this were a Mac, only this looks like 
a C:\ prompt), then click Edit->Mark, highlight what you want and hit 
Enter.  That copies the highlighted text to the clipboard, from whence 
it can be pasted into, among other things, a mail message.


Back to the textclass “XX” is not found messages.  Are you getting that 
when you start LyX, when you try to create a new document in LyX, or 
what?  (I'm trying to reconcile that with the fact that the TeX 
Information window shows them.)  Have you tried 
Edit->Preferences->Reconfigure in LyX (after which you have to close and 
restart LyX to benefit from any newly found classes)?  This does the 
same as 'sh configure', except you don't get any feedback about how 
things are going.


Another related question:  if you click Help->LaTeX configuration in 
LyX, what do you see for the following:  the date the file was generated 
(third line of the file); the date of the LaTeX version (section 1); and 
which standard classes were found (section 3 -- each class has a Found: 
yes/no entry)?



That's likely to be a consequence of not installing
rather than an  indication of the root cause.  Does it give any
indication prior to that of why it's not installing?  


Not that I have seen so far. It looks okay to me (but
what do I know?) until it simply reports that it
cannot add the file association.  The log is at
http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/GSinstallscript.pdf
if you want to take a look.


Will check this when time permits (i.e., after pretending to do some work).



(On a side note, have> you considered 
sacrificing a small furry animal to the gods of 
computing before installing things?  Works for me.)


Small furry animal be damned, I'm considering
something like a black bear.  I'm a bit too far south
for a moose.


Just as well, antlers don't burn well.  Just avoid endangered species. 
Wolverines always make good sacrifices, by the way (not to mention 
they're not of much use otherwise).


Paul

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[John Kane]

--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Kane wrote:
> > The file is there, all 43K of it, but “sh
configure”
> > simply gives me an error message
> > 'sh' is not recognized as an internal or external
> > command, operable program or batch file.
> 
> Ok, when you ran the first test (that worked 
correctly), were you in the 
> msys\1.0\bin directory? 

Yes

>If so, then the combination
> of that working and 
> the attempt to run the configure script not working
> would suggest that 
> the MinSYS bin directory is not on your command
> path.  I thought, from 
> your previous post, that it was, but just to double
> check, what do you 
> get if you type 'path' at a command prompt?

Path=C:\Perl\bin\;c:program
files\imanemagick-6.2.5_q16;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;c:\WINDOWS\system32;C:WINDOWS;C;\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:Program
Files\Common Files\MDL Shared\ISIS

I'd forgotten there even were things like Paths. I
have not seen a DOS prompt since I bought a Mac back
in 1988.BTW is there some way to pipe that DOS
stuff to a text file?  I copied that Path info by
hand. 

>> I am
> > still getting the error message that the textclass
> > “XX” is not found but I now at least can see them
in
> > the TeX Information list.
> 
> You're seeing them in LyX via View->TeX Information?
>  That's  inconsistent with the textclass not found
messages (assuming that 
> textclass XX is in the TeX Information list).

Yes, they are appearing in  View->TeX Information.  I
now have entries for all three categories and
following Steven's advice I have checked and confirmed
that they also are present in the directory ( I did a
dir *cls and got 10 files.)

> > 
> > I am unable to print. I did manage to export an
ASCII
> > file!!.  
> 
> That's a positive step, but since ASCII export does>
not involve LaTeX, 
> it's a small positive step.
> > 
> > I finally managed to download GSview and it is now
> > refusing to install and giving me the error 
message: 
> > Failed to add PS file association
> 
> That's likely to be a consequence of not installing
> rather than an  indication of the root cause.  Does
it give any
> indication prior to that > of why it's not
installing?  

Not that I have seen so far. It looks okay to me (but
what do I know?) until it simply reports that it
cannot add the file association.  The log is at
http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/GSinstallscript.pdf
if you want to take a look.

>(On a side note, have> you considered 
> sacrificing a small furry animal to the gods of 
computing before > installing things?  Works for me.)

Small furry animal be damned, I'm considering
something like a black bear.  I'm a bit too far south
for a moose.

John Kane, Kingston ON  Canada






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Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Paul A. Rubin]

John Kane wrote:


.  To verify your MinSYS
installation, you can open a DOS 
window and type 'sh' at the command prompt.  This
should start a shell 
and give you a prompt that looks like 'sh-2.04$'
(though possibly yours 
will have a higher version number).  If it does,
type 'exit' to get out 
of the shell.



Works fine



Assuming sh works, you might try running the
configure script in the DOS 
window.  Change to the directory C:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx, 
verify that a file named 'configure' is there, and
then execute 'sh 
configure'.  
That runs the configuration script. 



Does not work 
The file is there, all 43K of it, but “sh configure”

simply gives me an error message
'sh' is not recognized as an internal or external
command, operable program or batch file.


Ok, when you ran the first test (that worked correctly), were you in the 
msys\1.0\bin directory?  If so, then the combination of that working and 
the attempt to run the configure script not working would suggest that 
the MinSYS bin directory is not on your command path.  I thought, from 
your previous post, that it was, but just to double check, what do you 
get if you type 'path' at a command prompt?



As an update, I deleted, uninstalled, (and bleached
and scrubbed) everything again this morning and
reinstalled everything with LyX at c:\LyX  . I am
still getting the error message that the textclass
“XX” is not found but I now at least can see them in
the TeX Information list.


You're seeing them in LyX via View->TeX Information?  That's 
inconsistent with the textclass not found messages (assuming that 
textclass XX is in the TeX Information list).


I am unable to print. I did manage to export an ASCII
file!!.  


That's a positive step, but since ASCII export does not involve LaTeX, 
it's a small positive step.


I finally managed to download GSview and it is now
refusing to install and giving me the error message: 
Failed to add PS file association


That's likely to be a consequence of not installing rather than an 
indication of the root cause.  Does it give any indication prior to that 
of why it's not installing?  (On a side note, have you considered 
sacrificing a small furry animal to the gods of computing before 
installing things?  Works for me.)


Paul

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[John Kane]

--- Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - Original Message - 
> From: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 2:05 PM
> Subject: Re: Installation Problem. All entries in
> Textclass.lst 
> are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

---clip---

> If you have content in c:\msys\1.0\bin that should 
suffice.

It seems okay

> Did you remember to delete > Drag this to the
> recycle bin:  > C:\Documents and
Settings\username\Application Data\LyX

Yes

> I agree that Python23 should work (not part of >
problem).

Good I need that version.

> Probably a "large" install of Miktex should also 
suffice. So your helper programs appear to be in
order.

Thanks, that's reassuring.

> Try changing the default install directory to c:\lyx
> because paths with spaces, as in c:\program 
files\lyx
> isn't quite perfected, though it nearly always
works.

Tried this today. I am still getting the error
messages and I cannot print but I now can see the TEX
Infomation lists. One step.

> Remember to delete the old installation first. I am
> used to giving advice very thoroughly, so don't mind
it.

Much prefered to being to brief. 

> I'm including a screen capture of some of my .cls
> files so you can do a search and make sure you have
them.

As mentioned above, they have now appeared in the
lists.  The C:\LyX may have done it. 

> This is the searchable lyx user mailing list
> archive.>
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/
> So a search for textclass.lst will return related
> problems.
> 
> Re: No classes is a thread about a similar problem
>
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg41609.html

Yes if that is Banibrata 's thread I found it about an
hour after I posted. My searches were not finding much
before.  I need a better choice of keywords.

> From windows, you can use the cmd line (dos prompt)
> to get latex information with "kpsewhich
> article.cls" C:\texmf\..
> no quotation marks to obtain info about Latex
> installed files.

They are there. I counted 10 cls files in that
directory.

BTW I also am getting a GSview installation error
saying that the program “Failed to add PS file
association: in the registry.”

John Kane, Kingston ON  Canada






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Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[John Kane]

--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Kane wrote:

> Hang on.  The ~2.8 MB file in Stephen's directory
> listing is probably 
> the installer, which you don't need once
> installation is done (and which 
> wouldn't necessarily be in that particular directory
> even if you did 
> keep it).  

Yes, Steven told me that.  

>.  To verify your MinSYS
> installation, you can open a DOS 
> window and type 'sh' at the command prompt.  This
> should start a shell 
> and give you a prompt that looks like 'sh-2.04$'
> (though possibly yours 
> will have a higher version number).  If it does,
> type 'exit' to get out 
> of the shell.

Works fine

> Assuming sh works, you might try running the
> configure script in the DOS 
> window.  Change to the directory C:\Program
> Files\LyX\Resources\lyx, 
> verify that a file named 'configure' is there, and
> then execute 'sh 
> configure'.  
>That runs the configuration script. 

Does not work 
The file is there, all 43K of it, but “sh configure”
simply gives me an error message
'sh' is not recognized as an internal or external
command, operable program or batch file.


 >If not, try 
> executing 'latex --version' at the command prompt
> and see if you get a 
> version message. 

Yes it looks fine. I got a compete version message.
> If not, there's a problem with
> your MiKTeX installation.
So hopefully this is okay. It takes an hour to
install. 

As an update, I deleted, uninstalled, (and bleached
and scrubbed) everything again this morning and
reinstalled everything with LyX at c:\LyX  . I am
still getting the error message that the textclass
“XX” is not found but I now at least can see them in
the TeX Information list.  All three categories are
displaying and I cross-checked as Steven suggest at
DOS level to confirm that the files (at least the cls
files) are in their directory.  

I am unable to print. I did manage to export an ASCII
file!!.  

I finally managed to download GSview and it is now
refusing to install and giving me the error message: 
Failed to add PS file association

Thanks for all the help. 






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Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Paul A. Rubin]

John Kane wrote:


This is what I have for the right
Minsys .exe

Directory of C:\msys

11/10/2005  11:06 AM  .
11/10/2005  11:06 AM  ..
08/14/2005  11:49 AM  1.0
07/31/2005  01:05 PM 2,808,061
MSYS-1.0.10.exe



Whereas mine looks like
10/11/2005  04:04 PM   .
10/11/2005  07:30 AM   ..
10/11/2005  04:04 PM   1.0
   0 File(s)   O bytes
   3 Dir(s)  28,478,042,122 bytes free

Mine has no sign of an exe file  so it looks like I
may have found the culprit.


Hang on.  The ~2.8 MB file in Stephen's directory listing is probably 
the installer, which you don't need once installation is done (and which 
wouldn't necessarily be in that particular directory even if you did 
keep it).  Given your path (below), the question is what you have in 
C:\msys\1.0\bin.  To verify your MinSYS installation, you can open a DOS 
window and type 'sh' at the command prompt.  This should start a shell 
and give you a prompt that looks like 'sh-2.04$' (though possibly yours 
will have a higher version number).  If it does, type 'exit' to get out 
of the shell.


Assuming sh works, you might try running the configure script in the DOS 
window.  Change to the directory C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx, 
verify that a file named 'configure' is there, and then execute 'sh 
configure'.  That runs the configuration script.  Watch the output in 
particular to see if it finds a working version of LaTeX.  If not, try 
executing 'latex --version' at the command prompt and see if you get a 
version message.  If not, there's a problem with your MiKTeX installation.


HTH,

Paul

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[John Kane]

--- Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> - Original Message - 
> From: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:43 AM
> Subject: Installation Problem. All entries in
> Textclass.lst are "false " so 
> no output. Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> >I have just tried to install LyX 1.3.6 under
> Windows
> > XP.  I like what I have seen but I have a problem.
> As
> > the heading says: I cannot produce any output
> because
> > LyX has marked all the layouts apparently as not
> > existing.
> >
> 
> Sometimes/importantly the prior installation of
> configuration data
> is not erased, so a fresh install requires this.
> Drag this to the recycle
> bin: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application
> Data\LyX
> Sometimes you have to unhide folders like
> \Application data
> 
> It is a good idea to use Control Panel -->
> Add/Remove programs
> and start anew. This is what I have for the right
> Minsys .exe
> 
> Directory of C:\msys
> 
> 11/10/2005  11:06 AM  .
> 11/10/2005  11:06 AM  ..
> 08/14/2005  11:49 AM  1.0
> 07/31/2005  01:05 PM 2,808,061
> MSYS-1.0.10.exe

Whereas mine looks like
10/11/2005  04:04 PM   .
10/11/2005  07:30 AM   ..
10/11/2005  04:04 PM   1.0
   0 File(s)   O bytes
   3 Dir(s)  28,478,042,122 bytes free

Mine has no sign of an exe file  so it looks like I
may have found the culprit.

Given that it takes about 40 minutes to load Miktex I
left it installed and got rid of everytiong else but I
have the same result.  Again I was using msys1.1.10 (
but I did not rename make.exe -> mingw.32-make.exe)



> I think you may have done a larger install because
> as I recall
> renaming "make" is done as part of a bigger install,
> although
> it may not hurt. Not correctly installing Minsys and
> Latex are
> often the culprits for producing that textclass
> error, which I
> think is also still produced if you use the Uwe
> installer rather
> than the Angus installer (if you don't know about
> this option
> then don't worrry about it). Other useful things to
> know about
> are Edit --> Reconfigure , to refresh the LyX
> database and to
> check Edit --> Preferences --> --> Paths --> Path
> Prefix , to
> see that LyX has recognized your helper apps at the
> correct
> directory path. I often have to add my Ps viewer
> (gswin32.exe)
> so look at Paths and File Formats if some viewer
> doesn't work.
> 
> My Path --> Path Prefix looks like this (checkout
> msys entry)
> 
>
C:\msys\1.0\bin;C:\Python24;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\Perl\bin;
> C:\gs\gs8.13\bin;C:\ghostgum\gsview;C:\ImageMagick

My Path __> 
C:\msys\1.0\bin;C:\Python23;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\Perl\bin;C:\Program
Files\gs\gs8.53\bin;C:\Program
Files\ImageMagick-6.2.5-Q16
> 
> I think your newer gs is unrelated to the error. 

I have noticed that there is nothing under the TeX
Information.  That is  LaTex Classes, LaTex styles and
BibTex styles list are all empty


I notice that my Python is older.

> So it will work,
> Stephen 
 Of course it will :)









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Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[John Kane]

--- Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> - Original Message - 
> From: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:43 AM
> Subject: Installation Problem. All entries in
> Textclass.lst are "false " so 
> no output. Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> >I have just tried to install LyX 1.3.6 under
> Windows
> > XP.  I like what I have seen but I have a problem.
> As
> > the heading says: I cannot produce any output
> because
> > LyX has marked all the layouts apparently as not
> > existing.
> >
> 
> Sometimes/importantly the prior installation of
> configuration data
> is not erased, so a fresh install requires this.
> Drag this to the recycle
> bin: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application
> Data\LyX
> Sometimes you have to unhide folders like
> \Application data
> 
> It is a good idea to use Control Panel -->
> Add/Remove programs
> and start anew. This is what I have for the right
> Minsys .exe
> 
> Directory of C:\msys
> 
> 11/10/2005  11:06 AM  .
> 11/10/2005  11:06 AM  ..
> 08/14/2005  11:49 AM  1.0
> 07/31/2005  01:05 PM 2,808,061
> MSYS-1.0.10.exe
> 
> I think you may have done a larger install because
> as I recall
> renaming "make" is done as part of a bigger install,
> although
> it may not hurt. Not correctly installing Minsys and
> Latex are
> often the culprits for producing that textclass
> error, which I
> think is also still produced if you use the Uwe
> installer rather
> than the Angus installer (if you don't know about
> this option
> then don't worrry about it). Other useful things to
> know about
> are Edit --> Reconfigure , to refresh the LyX
> database and to
> check Edit --> Preferences --> --> Paths --> Path
> Prefix , to
> see that LyX has recognized your helper apps at the
> correct
> directory path. I often have to add my Ps viewer
> (gswin32.exe)
> so look at Paths and File Formats if some viewer
> doesn't work.
> 
> My Path --> Path Prefix looks like this (checkout
> msys entry)
> 
>
C:\msys\1.0\bin;C:\Python24;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\Perl\bin;
> C:\gs\gs8.13\bin;C:\ghostgum\gsview;C:\ImageMagick
> 
> I think your newer gs is unrelated to the error. If
> you want
> spellchecking, download and install Aspell to
> C:\Aspell
> and get the dictionary of your language also, as
> mentioned
> in http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136 install
> instructions.
> 
> I've installed this on different computers with win
> xp and with
> different versions of latex successfully and without
> a problem
> but for adding a viewer app to the Path prefix
> occasionally.
> 
> So it will work,
> Stephen 
> 
> 
> 







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Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " 
so no output. Any suggestions?





- Original Message - 
From: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:43 AM
Subject: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " 
so no output. Any suggestions?




I have just tried to install LyX 1.3.6 under Windows
XP.  I like what I have seen but I have a problem. As
the heading says: I cannot produce any output because
LyX has marked all the layouts apparently as not
existing.


I think you may have done a larger install because as I recall
renaming "make" is done as part of a bigger install, although
it may not hurt. Not correctly installing Minsys and Latex are
often the culprits for producing that textclass error, which I
think is also still produced if you use the Uwe installer rather
than the Angus installer (if you don't know about this option
then don't worrry about it).


I actually meant Tex Information rather than "textclass error"
which I think provides some measure for a new user, of a
working intall of the Lyx system, when I mentioned installers.
under View-->TeX Information, displays various Latex classes

Regards,
Stephen

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:43 AM
Subject: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so 
no output. Any suggestions?




I have just tried to install LyX 1.3.6 under Windows
XP.  I like what I have seen but I have a problem. As
the heading says: I cannot produce any output because
LyX has marked all the layouts apparently as not
existing.



Sometimes/importantly the prior installation of configuration data
is not erased, so a fresh install requires this. Drag this to the recycle
bin: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\LyX
Sometimes you have to unhide folders like \Application data

It is a good idea to use Control Panel --> Add/Remove programs
and start anew. This is what I have for the right Minsys .exe

Directory of C:\msys

11/10/2005  11:06 AM  .
11/10/2005  11:06 AM  ..
08/14/2005  11:49 AM  1.0
07/31/2005  01:05 PM 2,808,061 MSYS-1.0.10.exe

I think you may have done a larger install because as I recall
renaming "make" is done as part of a bigger install, although
it may not hurt. Not correctly installing Minsys and Latex are
often the culprits for producing that textclass error, which I
think is also still produced if you use the Uwe installer rather
than the Angus installer (if you don't know about this option
then don't worrry about it). Other useful things to know about
are Edit --> Reconfigure , to refresh the LyX database and to
check Edit --> Preferences --> --> Paths --> Path Prefix , to
see that LyX has recognized your helper apps at the correct
directory path. I often have to add my Ps viewer (gswin32.exe)
so look at Paths and File Formats if some viewer doesn't work.

My Path --> Path Prefix looks like this (checkout msys entry)

C:\msys\1.0\bin;C:\Python24;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\Perl\bin;
C:\gs\gs8.13\bin;C:\ghostgum\gsview;C:\ImageMagick

I think your newer gs is unrelated to the error. If you want
spellchecking, download and install Aspell to C:\Aspell
and get the dictionary of your language also, as mentioned
in http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136 install instructions.

I've installed this on different computers with win xp and with
different versions of latex successfully and without a problem
but for adding a viewer app to the Path prefix occasionally.

So it will work,
Stephen 

Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are "false " so no output. Any suggestions?

[John Kane]

I have just tried to install LyX 1.3.6 under Windows
XP.  I like what I have seen but I have a problem. As
the heading says: I cannot produce any output because
LyX has marked all the layouts apparently as not
existing.

I have installed 
ImageMagick-6.2.5-4-Q16-windows-dll
Ghostscript gs853w32
ActivePerl-5.6.1.638-MSWin32-x86
MiKTeX 2.4 or 2.5  ( I chose the large installation
not the total one)
msys1.1.10 (I also followed the advice in the
installation to rename make.exe -> mingw.32-make.exe
on my second installation)

LyX seems to be unable to find some components.  Once
the installation is complete I loaded LyX I opened up
the Tutorial file and got the message. 
TeX class error 
The document uses a missing TeX class “book”
LyX will not be able to produce output.

I receive the same message when loading an letter
template.

Neither Export or dvi works.  
However I seem to be able to input  text into a
document, and save it.

I opened up the textclass.lst and found that all
classes were set to “false” See below for some of the
text.  I checked the LyX \resources\templates and
\layouts folders and there are templates and layouts
there including aa which in Textclass.lst is reported
as “false”

Unfortunately I have yet to figure out how to capture
all of the installation information that goes racing
by on the screen so I don't have a good listing to
check. 

I have done a complete reinstall of everything with no
success. 

I wonder if anyone might be able to suggest something
I might try.



Textclass.lst

# This file declares layouts and their associated
definition files
# (include dir. relative to the place where this file
is).
# It contains only default values, since chkconfig.ltx
could not be run
# for some reason. Run ./configure if you need to
update it after a
# configuration change.
"IEEEtran" "IEEEtran" "article (IEEEtran)" "false"
"aa" "aa" "article (A&A)" "false"
"aapaper" "aa" "article (A&A V4)" "false"






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Re: Mac installation problem

[Bennett Helm]

On Jul 21, 2005, at 7:08 PM, Lenore Horner wrote:

I thought I'd upgrade to the most recent version of LyX (from 1.3.3) 
on my iBook running 10.3.9.  I downloaded the binary, dragged the LyX 
icon to my Applications folder and then double clicked the LyX 
Installer icon whereupon I received the message: "The operation could 
not be completed.  An unexpected error occurred (error code -10660)."  
Any suggestions?  A cursory trial of LyX shows that it runs and 
displays pdf output.  I'm rather surprised at that because it should 
be looking the wrong place for preferences I thought.   I didn't try 
editing a file.


Lenore -

Doing a quick google search on 'error code "-10660" mac os x' (minus 
the single quotes; the double quotes are needed if google is to search 
for the number rather than require that it's absent) reveals that this 
means OS X can't find the application that normally opens the document 
(in this case the installer script). One cause may be that you have 
deleted Terminal.app; another may be a corrupted cache somewhere.


Try either:

1. cleaning your caches with cocktail 
() or onyx 
() and double-clicking the 
LyX Installer again, or


2. opening a terminal session manually, and running the LyX Installer 
from there.


Bennett

Mac installation problem

[Lenore Horner]

I thought I'd upgrade to the most recent version of LyX (from 1.3.3) on 
my iBook running 10.3.9.  I downloaded the binary, dragged the LyX icon 
to my Applications folder and then double clicked the LyX Installer 
icon whereupon I received the message: "The operation could not be 
completed.  An unexpected error occurred (error code -10660)."  Any 
suggestions?  A cursory trial of LyX shows that it runs and displays 
pdf output.  I'm rather surprised at that because it should be looking 
the wrong place for preferences I thought.   I didn't try editing a 
file.

Re: Mac installation problem

[Chris Menzel]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 04:39:05PM +0200, Henning Bobzin wrote:
> Hello again and thanks so far,
> 
> the installer I got from http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac is for 
> Mac OS 10.2 or later, so that should not be the problem.

In light of Jean-Marc's earlier remark that "LyX/Mac is supposedly
compiled in a way that makes it work for 10.2 as well as 10.3" you might
try the Woodard version I suggested (which enables you to use the
control key for emacs keybindings).

> The log-file reads:
> Tue Oct 12 10:47:41 CEST 2004
> Found TeXbin directory: 
> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current
> Found installation directory: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local
> Cannot install Srcltx files.

I would suppose that you are an administrator on your machine, but that
sort of error is often caused by insufficient privileges.  Just a
thought.

Chris Menzel

Re: Mac installation problem

[Henning Bobzin]

Hello again and thanks so far,
the installer I got from http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac is for 
Mac OS 10.2 or later, so that should not be the problem.
The log-file reads:
Tue Oct 12 10:47:41 CEST 2004
Found TeXbin directory: 
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current
Found installation directory: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local
Cannot install Srcltx files.

The error message is (translated) "There were errors when installing" 
and "Please try again later".

Maybe the logfile is helpful?
thanks, Henning
Am Dienstag, 12.10.04, um 14:30 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Bennett 
Helm:

On Oct 11, 2004, at 12:53 PM, Henning Bobzin wrote:
Hello,
I'm new to the LaTeX-world and wanted to ask for some help with a 
problem installing LyX for Mac OS X (10.2.8). I have already a 
working teTex installation and tried Texshop, which worked fine. Now 
I wanted to have a look at LyX. But when running the LyX-installer it 
stops saying "There is an error, please try again" (something like 
that, but in German).
It would be nice if someone could give me a hint.
The installer writes to a log file in /tmp. You can access it from the 
Finder by typing "g", and then typing "/tmp" in the dialog 
that pops up. Then open lyx-install.log with any text editor and copy 
the contents into an e-mail to us. That should help diagnose the 
problem.

Bennett

Re: Mac installation problem

[Bennett Helm]

On Oct 11, 2004, at 12:53 PM, Henning Bobzin wrote:
Hello,
I'm new to the LaTeX-world and wanted to ask for some help with a 
problem installing LyX for Mac OS X (10.2.8). I have already a working 
teTex installation and tried Texshop, which worked fine. Now I wanted 
to have a look at LyX. But when running the LyX-installer it stops 
saying "There is an error, please try again" (something like that, but 
in German).
It would be nice if someone could give me a hint.
The installer writes to a log file in /tmp. You can access it from the 
Finder by typing "g", and then typing "/tmp" in the dialog 
that pops up. Then open lyx-install.log with any text editor and copy 
the contents into an e-mail to us. That should help diagnose the 
problem.

Bennett

Re: Mac installation problem

[Rune Johan Andresen]

Hi all! I sucseeded installing Lyx Aqua for Mac OS X 10.3.4, but when I 
try to port to PDF, or doing other actions,
I get this error msg:

LaTeX Error: File `lmodern.sty' not found.
 ^^M
*** (cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes)
I have tried to check all paths supposed to be used by Lyx and Tex, 
even installed lmodern.sty trough the LM packet (with i-installer),
but for some reasons, Lyx still disbehaves. Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Rune
On Oct 12, 2004, at 11:23 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
"Chris" == Chris Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chris> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 06:53:17PM +0200, Henning Bobzin wrote:
Hello,
I'm new to the LaTeX-world and wanted to ask for some help with a
problem installing LyX for Mac OS X (10.2.8). I have already a
working teTex installation and tried Texshop, which worked fine.
Now I wanted to have a look at LyX. But when running the
LyX-installer it stops saying "There is an error, please try again"
(something like that, but in German).
Chris> Have you tried the version that Jason Woodard compiled?
Chris>
Chris> 
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~jason/temp/lyx-1.3.4_macos-aqua-emacs.dmg

Chris> Also, I am wondering whether there is a problem arising from
Chris> the fact that you are using Jaguar (OS X 10.2.x) and trying to
Chris> install a version compiled under Panther (10.3.x).
LyX/Mac is supposedly compiled in a way that makes it work for 10.2 as
well as 10.3. However, it is difficult to say where the problem is if
we do not see the real error message. Henning, could you give more
details?
JMarc

Re: Mac installation problem

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Chris" == Chris Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Chris> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 06:53:17PM +0200, Henning Bobzin wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm new to the LaTeX-world and wanted to ask for some help with a
>> problem installing LyX for Mac OS X (10.2.8). I have already a
>> working teTex installation and tried Texshop, which worked fine.
>> Now I wanted to have a look at LyX. But when running the
>> LyX-installer it stops saying "There is an error, please try again"
>> (something like that, but in German).

Chris> Have you tried the version that Jason Woodard compiled?

Chris>
Chris> http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~jason/temp/lyx-1.3.4_macos-aqua-emacs.dmg

Chris> Also, I am wondering whether there is a problem arising from
Chris> the fact that you are using Jaguar (OS X 10.2.x) and trying to
Chris> install a version compiled under Panther (10.3.x).

LyX/Mac is supposedly compiled in a way that makes it work for 10.2 as
well as 10.3. However, it is difficult to say where the problem is if
we do not see the real error message. Henning, could you give more
details?

JMarc

Re: Mac installation problem

[Chris Menzel]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 06:53:17PM +0200, Henning Bobzin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm new to the LaTeX-world and wanted to ask for some help with a 
> problem installing LyX for Mac OS X (10.2.8). I have already a working 
> teTex installation and tried Texshop, which worked fine. Now I wanted 
> to have a look at LyX. But when running the LyX-installer it stops 
> saying "There is an error, please try again" (something like that, but 
> in German).

Have you tried the version that Jason Woodard compiled?

  http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~jason/temp/lyx-1.3.4_macos-aqua-emacs.dmg

Also, I am wondering whether there is a problem arising from the fact
that you are using Jaguar (OS X 10.2.x) and trying to install a version
compiled under Panther (10.3.x).

Chris Menzel

Mac installation problem

[Henning Bobzin]

Hello,
I'm new to the LaTeX-world and wanted to ask for some help with a 
problem installing LyX for Mac OS X (10.2.8). I have already a working 
teTex installation and tried Texshop, which worked fine. Now I wanted 
to have a look at LyX. But when running the LyX-installer it stops 
saying "There is an error, please try again" (something like that, but 
in German).
It would be nice if someone could give me a hint.

Thanks, Henning

Re: Installation Problem with LyX 1.3.4 on Solaris9

[Angus Leeming]

Volker Knierim wrote:

> *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm)
> Pro* Hello,
> 
> I am new to this list so I don't know if this is the right way to post
> something, but I'll try anyway.
> 
> I have a problem with installing LyX 1.3.4 on a Sun ULTRA Sparc running
> Solaris 2.9. I downloaded the xforms library (V. 1.0.90) and compiled it
> on the same machine without problems. Then I tried to install LyX. The
> configure task created a makefile and reported no errors. The I used
> gmake  and after a while the process stopped with the folowing error:
> 
> g++ -O -fno-exceptions -o lyx BufferView.o ... vspace.o 
mathed/.libs/libmathed.a insets/.libs/libinsets.a
> frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so
> /usr/local/lib/libforms.so -lXpm graphics/.libs/libgraphics.a
> support/.libs/libsupport.a ../boost/libs/regex/src/.libs/libboostregex.a
> ../boost/libs/signals/src/.libs/libboostsignals.a ../intl/libintl.a -lSM
> -lICE -lc -lm -L/usr/openwin/lib -lX11 -lsocket -lnsl -R/usr/local/lib
> -R/usr/local/lib -R/usr/openwin/lib

Hi, Volker

The problem is that this link step is not including the libflimage.so
shared object that bundles the image part of the XForms library. I guess
that the problem is the fault of the configure script.

If you look in config.log, which details which tests passed and which tests
failed, you'll find tests entitled:

configure:12330: checking for library containing flimage_dup

(The line numbers will probably be different)

There is more than one such test, as the configure script searches for the
library containing the function. Here, this test fails

configure:12361: gcc -o conftest -g -O2  -isystem /usr/X11R6/include
conftest.c -ljpeg -lforms -lXpm  -lSM -lICE -lc -lm 
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11  >&5

printing out the failing program, but this test succeeds

configure:12406: gcc -o conftest -g -O2  -isystem /usr/X11R6/include
conftest.c -lflimage  -ljpeg -lforms -lXpm  -lSM -lICE -lc -lm
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11  > &5
configure:12409: $? = 0
configure:12412: test -s conftest
configure:12415: $? = 0
configure:12429: result: -lflimage

because flimage_dup is to be found in libflimage.so for XForms versions
greater than or equal to 1.0.

So, does this file exist in ${PREFIX}/lib, where PREFIX=/usr/local etc? I
suspect that you'll find libflimage.so.1.0.0 and will have to make a sym
link
ln -s libflimage.so.1.0.0 libflimage.so

This is a problem that has been fixed in the cvs version of the XForms
library.

Regards,
Angus

Installation Problem with LyX 1.3.4 on Solaris9

[Volker Knierim]

*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro*
Hello,
I am new to this list so I don't know if this is the right way to post 
something, but I'll try anyway.

I have a problem with installing LyX 1.3.4 on a Sun ULTRA Sparc running 
Solaris 2.9. I downloaded the xforms library (V. 1.0.90) and compiled it 
on the same machine without problems. Then I tried to install LyX. The 
configure task created a makefile and reported no errors. The I used 
gmake  and after a while the process stopped with the folowing error:

g++ -O -fno-exceptions -o lyx BufferView.o BufferView_pimpl.o Bullet.o 
Chktex.o CutAndPaste.o DepTable.o FloatList.o Floating.o FuncStatus.o 
InsetList.o LColor.o LaTeX.o LaTeXFeatures.o LyXAction.o MenuBackend.o 
paragraph_funcs.o ParagraphList.o ParagraphParameters.o Spacing.o 
TextCache.o Thesaurus.o ToolbarDefaults.o boost.o boost-inst.o box.o 
buffer.o bufferlist.o bufferparams.o bufferview_funcs.o chset.o 
converter.o counters.o debug.o encoding.o exporter.o gettext.o factory.o 
funcrequest.o importer.o intl.o iterators.o kbmap.o kbsequence.o 
language.o lastfiles.o lengthcommon.o lyx_cb.o lyx_main.o lyx_sty.o 
lyxcursor.o lyxfont.o lyxfind.o lyxfunc.o lyxgluelength.o lyxlayout.o 
lyxlength.o lyxlex.o lyxlex_pimpl.o lyxrc.o lyxrow.o lyxserver.o 
lyxtextclass.o lyxtextclasslist.o lyxvc.o main.o paragraph.o 
paragraph_pimpl.o ispell.o pspell.o sgml.o tabular.o tabular-old.o 
tabular_funcs.o tex-accent.o tex-strings.o texrow.o text.o text2.o 
text3.o toc.o trans.o trans_mgr.o undo.o undo_funcs.o vc-backend.o 
version.o vspace.o  mathed/.libs/libmathed.a insets/.libs/libinsets.a 
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so 
/usr/local/lib/libforms.so -lXpm graphics/.libs/libgraphics.a 
support/.libs/libsupport.a ../boost/libs/regex/src/.libs/libboostregex.a 
../boost/libs/signals/src/.libs/libboostsignals.a ../intl/libintl.a -lSM 
-lICE -lc -lm -L/usr/openwin/lib -lX11 -lsocket -lnsl -R/usr/local/lib 
-R/usr/local/lib -R/usr/openwin/lib

Undefined   first referenced
symbol in file
flimage_to_pixmap   
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_enable_pnm  
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_enable_fits 
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_rotate  
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_enable_gif  
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_enable_jpeg 
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_scale   
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_enable_sgi  
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_get_format_info 
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_setup   
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_read
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_replace_pixel   
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_crop
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_get_number_of_formats   
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_dup 
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_free
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_open
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_enable_bmp  
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_enable_xwd  
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_enable_tiff 
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_close   
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_convert 
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
flimage_enable_xbm  
frontends/.libs/libfrontends.a(xformsImage.o)
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to lyx
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[2]: *** [lyx] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
`/export/home/knierim/installation/lyx-1.3.4/src'
gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
`/export/home/knierim/installation/lyx-1.3.4/src'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2

The Version of the used compilers and utilities are:
gmake -v:
GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath. Built 
for sparc-sun-solaris2.9

gcc -v:
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.2.3/specs
Configured with: ../configure --disable-nls --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as 
--with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2.3

g++ -v:
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.2.3/specs
Configured with: ../configure --disable-nls --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as 
--with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2.3

Does anyone know what wen

Re: LyX Win32 installation problem

[Paul A. Rubin]

Nirmal Govind wrote:
3: Make sure that the two files LaTeXConfig.lyx.in and 
LyXConfig.lyx.in exist in the .../share/lyx/doc folder.  They were 
missing from my last download of Ruurd's port.

These do not exist it seems.. What should he do?
I'll e-mail them to you, and you can ransom them to him. :-)
-- Paul

Re: LyX Win32 installation problem

[Nirmal Govind]

Thanks for the responses, folks. Please see my replies inline below...
3: Make sure that the two files LaTeXConfig.lyx.in and LyXConfig.lyx.in 
exist in the .../share/lyx/doc folder.  They were missing from my last 
download of Ruurd's port.
These do not exist it seems.. What should he do?
4: Someone reported on the list that Edit->Reconfigure fails if LyX and 
the user's home directory are on different drives.
this is also true.. so I'll forward him Jim's post with the link to 
the new configure.bat ..

I believe his path is also missing Ghostscript so I suspect that 
this is the culprit... will report back once he tries out these 
suggestions.

Thanks,
nirmal

RE: LyX Win32 installation problem

[Rob S]

> 
> 4: Someone reported on the list that Edit->Reconfigure fails if LyX
and
> the user's home directory are on different drives.

If this is the problem try this version of configure.bat

http://www.soton.ac.uk/~rds2/configure.bat

to replace the one found in \lyx\share\lyx

(It is there now - I've just put it back - sorry. I'll upload it to the
wikki asap)

Rob S

> 
> -- Paul
> 

Re: LyX Win32 installation problem

[Paul A. Rubin]

Nirmal Govind wrote:
Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on 
windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure script 
doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to dvi, latex 
to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before installing LyX 
and I verified that these converters were present. So right now the View 
menu is empty, and so is the export menu in LyX. Any ideas on what might 
be wrong and what I need to do? I don't have much experience w/ LyX on 
Windows so would appreciate any help... incidentally, I installed this 
version on my Windows machine a few weeks back and everything went fine. 
I followed the exact same procedure this time too.. only difference I 
can think of is that this friend's machine had some previous version of 
MikTeX installed, which we deleted before installing the latest version...

Thanks,
nirmal

Four things to consider:
1.  If the user has any other versions of latex installed, make sure 
that they are either deleted, renamed, or appear after MiKTeX on the 
system path.  (I had one machine where the configure script choked on an 
old latex.exe that was part of a Cygwin installation.)

2:  Does Edit | Reconfigure by any chance write a 0 byte textclass.lst 
file?  If so, it's likely to be due to having the wrong version of 
sed.exe.  Ruurd's port ships with sed 3.02; download the GnuWin32 port 
of sed (4.0.7 or later) from SourceForge 
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/).

3: Make sure that the two files LaTeXConfig.lyx.in and LyXConfig.lyx.in 
exist in the .../share/lyx/doc folder.  They were missing from my last 
download of Ruurd's port.

4: Someone reported on the list that Edit->Reconfigure fails if LyX and 
the user's home directory are on different drives.

-- Paul
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RE: LyX Win32 installation problem

[Jim Ragsdale]

make sure that in Edit->Preferences->File Formats the viewer box has a path
to the viewer for each type (pdf,ps,dvi,ect.).

> -Original Message-
> From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nirmal Govind
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 1:11 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: LyX Win32 installation problem
>
>
> Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on
> windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure
> script doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to
> dvi, latex to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before
> installing LyX and I verified that these converters were present. So
> right now the View menu is empty, and so is the export menu in LyX.
> Any ideas on what might be wrong and what I need to do? I don't have
> much experience w/ LyX on Windows so would appreciate any help...
> incidentally, I installed this version on my Windows machine a few
> weeks back and everything went fine. I followed the exact same
> procedure this time too.. only difference I can think of is that
> this friend's machine had some previous version of MikTeX installed,
> which we deleted before installing the latest version...
>
> Thanks,
> nirmal
>

RE: LyX Win32 installation problem

[Rob S]

Hi

In the first instance have a look here:

http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup

Rob S

> 
> Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on
> windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure
> script doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to
> dvi, latex to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before
> installing LyX and I verified that these converters were present. So
> right now the View menu is empty, and so is the export menu in LyX.
> Any ideas on what might be wrong and what I need to do? I don't have
> much experience w/ LyX on Windows so would appreciate any help...
> incidentally, I installed this version on my Windows machine a few
> weeks back and everything went fine. I followed the exact same
> procedure this time too.. only difference I can think of is that
> this friend's machine had some previous version of MikTeX installed,
> which we deleted before installing the latest version...
> 
> Thanks,
> nirmal

LyX Win32 installation problem

[Nirmal Govind]

Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on 
windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure 
script doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to 
dvi, latex to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before 
installing LyX and I verified that these converters were present. So 
right now the View menu is empty, and so is the export menu in LyX. 
Any ideas on what might be wrong and what I need to do? I don't have 
much experience w/ LyX on Windows so would appreciate any help... 
incidentally, I installed this version on my Windows machine a few 
weeks back and everything went fine. I followed the exact same 
procedure this time too.. only difference I can think of is that 
this friend's machine had some previous version of MikTeX installed, 
which we deleted before installing the latest version...

Thanks,
nirmal