Re: Workaround for: WARNING: updating LaTeX or LyX under Windows will currently break LaTeX installation
On 09/05/2018 06:05 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 05/09/2018 à 11:45, Uwe Stöhr a écrit : >> @developers: Maybe now you see that the Win installer must do more >> and forcing a MiKTeX update is necessary as you can see in this case. >> We cannot say "not our fault". Yes, LyX is not to blame but what >> matters is if users can use LyX. In my case I wanted to write an >> urgent letter with LyX but could not use it and had to use >> LibreOffice instead. > > Hello Uwe, > > What I see now is that miktex should provide a small "repair pack" to > fix these things. Or that switching to texlive is more reasonable for > our users. +1 Riki
Re: Workaround for: WARNING: updating LaTeX or LyX under Windows will currently break LaTeX installation
On 5/09/2018 9:45 p.m., Uwe Stöhr wrote: As of today the update servers are working again. However, one needs a workaround because the buggy DLL of MiKTeX prevents the updates from being applied. it seems that the bug affects all users of Windows 7 while Win 10 is not affected. For the affected users there is a workaround but you need admin permissions and some knowledge: - open a Windows console as admin (type in "cmd" in the Windows Start field, and right-click on it to run it with admin privileges) - execute these 2 commands subsequently: initexmf --admin --update-fndb and initexmf --admin --mklinks --force - close the Windows console - now start the MiKTeX console - choose there to restart with admin privileges - check for updates and if there are any apply them From my point of view I see no other option than to provide a new LyX for Windows installer that repairs broken system by executing these commands in the background after LyX was installed. This way users with problems can just run the Win installer again and get a working LyX back in a minute without the need to know about console commands etc. @developers: Maybe now you see that the Win installer must do more and forcing a MiKTeX update is necessary as you can see in this case. We cannot say "not our fault". Yes, LyX is not to blame but what matters is if users can use LyX. In my case I wanted to write an urgent letter with LyX but could not use it and had to use LibreOffice instead. regards Uwe I'm on windows 7 and MiKTeX 2.9. MiKTeX update failed about a week ago and I couldn't compile to pdf, nor did instant preview work. The following day I tried updating again, and everything worked as it should, and as it has done since (including 11 packages updated just a few minutes ago). MiKTeX updates from ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de which seems a bit odd for someone in New Zealand but MiKTeX selected this itself with no help from me. (I think using the "random package on the internet" option in the console.) I've now also, after the update, compiled a complicated master-child document to pdf, so everything is working as it ought. Andrew --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
Re: Workaround for: WARNING: updating LaTeX or LyX under Windows will currently break LaTeX installation
Le 05/09/2018 à 11:45, Uwe Stöhr a écrit : @developers: Maybe now you see that the Win installer must do more and forcing a MiKTeX update is necessary as you can see in this case. We cannot say "not our fault". Yes, LyX is not to blame but what matters is if users can use LyX. In my case I wanted to write an urgent letter with LyX but could not use it and had to use LibreOffice instead. Hello Uwe, What I see now is that miktex should provide a small "repair pack" to fix these things. Or that switching to texlive is more reasonable for our users. JMarc
Workaround for: WARNING: updating LaTeX or LyX under Windows will currently break LaTeX installation
As of today the update servers are working again. However, one needs a workaround because the buggy DLL of MiKTeX prevents the updates from being applied. it seems that the bug affects all users of Windows 7 while Win 10 is not affected. For the affected users there is a workaround but you need admin permissions and some knowledge: - open a Windows console as admin (type in "cmd" in the Windows Start field, and right-click on it to run it with admin privileges) - execute these 2 commands subsequently: initexmf --admin --update-fndb and initexmf --admin --mklinks --force - close the Windows console - now start the MiKTeX console - choose there to restart with admin privileges - check for updates and if there are any apply them From my point of view I see no other option than to provide a new LyX for Windows installer that repairs broken system by executing these commands in the background after LyX was installed. This way users with problems can just run the Win installer again and get a working LyX back in a minute without the need to know about console commands etc. @developers: Maybe now you see that the Win installer must do more and forcing a MiKTeX update is necessary as you can see in this case. We cannot say "not our fault". Yes, LyX is not to blame but what matters is if users can use LyX. In my case I wanted to write an urgent letter with LyX but could not use it and had to use LibreOffice instead. regards Uwe
Re: WARNING: updating LaTeX or LyX under Windows will currently break LaTeX installation
Am 29.08.2018 um 03:30 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: I hope this issue will be fixed soon and report back. Status report: The problem persists. The fix for MiKTeX was already released but the main update server of MiKTeX is down. One cannot retrieve any update yet, no matter what update server is chosen. regards Uwe
Re: WARNING: updating LaTeX or LyX under Windows will currently break LaTeX installation
> I had this problem trying to install MikTeX and LateX on a new Windows computer. I got that message about an unknown procedure entry point. After uninstalling and re-installing several times, I got MikTex to work. Lyx still tells me there is no PDF viewer installed, as I described in another thread.Hi Rick, yes the problem you having is exactly the one I described. So currently there is no workaround than to wait until MiKTeX is fixed.Regards Uwe
WARNING: updating LaTeX or LyX under Windows will currently break LaTeX installation
Dear LyX Windows users, yesterday I noticed a severe bug in the LaTeX system "MiKTeX" that LyX is usually using under Windows. The problem is that if you - upgrade MiKTeX or LyX or - install a new LaTeX package or - refresh the MiKTeX package database you will end up in a broken LaTeX with error messages like "unknown procedure entry point". I experimented around for more than 2 hours but could not find a workaround once LaTeX is broken. Even a reinstallation of LyX or MiKTeX doesn't help since the result are always broken DLLs and I could not find a way to prevent this. Therefore I strongly recommend not to change anything in your LaTeX setup nor to compile LyX documents that might use special LaTeX packages hat are not yet installed on your PC. Also don't install another version of LyX or reinstall LyX. I hope this issue will be fixed soon and report back. regards Uwe
Lyx under Windows 8?
Hello. Does anyone know whether Lyx works under windows 8?
Lyx under Windows 8?
Hello. Does anyone know whether Lyx works under windows 8?
Lyx under Windows 8?
Hello. Does anyone know whether Lyx works under windows 8?
Graphics in Beamer/Lyx under Windows XP
When I insert graphics (jpg, eps, or pdf) into a beamer presentation (using Lyx), it works fine under Linux (Ubuntu/gnome 10.04), but under Windows XP (sp3) the same Lyx file (compiled with Lyx 1.6.7.4) generates numerous errors: undefined control sequence, missing number treated as zero, etc. The Linux Lyx version is 1.6.7.1 from getdeb. I actually suspect that it is a beamer problem, since I get similar errors in Windows after exporting the Lyx file to Latex, but I am not sure. Can anyone help? What is going on? -- Ehud Kaplan
Re: Graphics in Beamer/Lyx under Windows XP
ehud.kaplan at gmail.com ehud.kaplan at gmail.com writes: When I insert graphics (jpg, eps, or pdf) into a beamer presentation (using Lyx), it works fine under Linux (Ubuntu/gnome 10.04), but under Windows XP (sp3) the same Lyx file (compiled with Lyx 1.6.7.4) generates numerous errors: undefined control sequence, missing number treated as zero, etc. The Linux Lyx version is 1.6.7.1 from getdeb. I actually suspect that it is a beamer problem, since I get similar errors in Windows after exporting the Lyx file to Latex, but I am not sure. Can anyone help? What is going on? Are all your MikTeX packages up to date (latest versions)? Seems to me I recall seeing some reports of bugs in a package beamer uses (I don't think it was beamer itself, but I could be wrong) when the latest MikTeX release occurred. I think I also some something to the effect that the problems had been patched subsequently. /Paul
Graphics in Beamer/Lyx under Windows XP
When I insert graphics (jpg, eps, or pdf) into a beamer presentation (using Lyx), it works fine under Linux (Ubuntu/gnome 10.04), but under Windows XP (sp3) the same Lyx file (compiled with Lyx 1.6.7.4) generates numerous errors: undefined control sequence, missing number treated as zero, etc. The Linux Lyx version is 1.6.7.1 from getdeb. I actually suspect that it is a beamer problem, since I get similar errors in Windows after exporting the Lyx file to Latex, but I am not sure. Can anyone help? What is going on? -- Ehud Kaplan
Re: Graphics in Beamer/Lyx under Windows XP
ehud.kaplan at gmail.com ehud.kaplan at gmail.com writes: When I insert graphics (jpg, eps, or pdf) into a beamer presentation (using Lyx), it works fine under Linux (Ubuntu/gnome 10.04), but under Windows XP (sp3) the same Lyx file (compiled with Lyx 1.6.7.4) generates numerous errors: undefined control sequence, missing number treated as zero, etc. The Linux Lyx version is 1.6.7.1 from getdeb. I actually suspect that it is a beamer problem, since I get similar errors in Windows after exporting the Lyx file to Latex, but I am not sure. Can anyone help? What is going on? Are all your MikTeX packages up to date (latest versions)? Seems to me I recall seeing some reports of bugs in a package beamer uses (I don't think it was beamer itself, but I could be wrong) when the latest MikTeX release occurred. I think I also some something to the effect that the problems had been patched subsequently. /Paul
Graphics in Beamer/Lyx under Windows XP
When I insert graphics (jpg, eps, or pdf) into a beamer presentation (using Lyx), it works fine under Linux (Ubuntu/gnome 10.04), but under Windows XP (sp3) the same Lyx file (compiled with Lyx 1.6.7.4) generates numerous errors: "undefined control sequence, missing number treated as zero, etc." The Linux Lyx version is 1.6.7.1 from getdeb. I actually suspect that it is a beamer problem, since I get similar errors in Windows after exporting the Lyx file to Latex, but I am not sure. Can anyone help? What is going on? -- Ehud Kaplan
Re: Graphics in Beamer/Lyx under Windows XP
ehud.kaplan gmail.com gmail.com> writes: > > When I insert graphics (jpg, eps, or pdf) into a beamer presentation > (using Lyx), it works fine under > Linux (Ubuntu/gnome 10.04), but under Windows XP (sp3) the same Lyx file > (compiled with Lyx 1.6.7.4) generates numerous errors: > "undefined control sequence, missing number treated as zero, etc." > The Linux Lyx version is 1.6.7.1 from getdeb. > I actually suspect that it is a beamer problem, since I get similar > errors in Windows after exporting > the Lyx file to Latex, but I am not sure. > Can anyone help? What is going on? > Are all your MikTeX packages up to date (latest versions)? Seems to me I recall seeing some reports of bugs in a package beamer uses (I don't think it was beamer itself, but I could be wrong) when the latest MikTeX release occurred. I think I also some something to the effect that the problems had been patched subsequently. /Paul
Missing textclass problem while installing LyX under Windows hopefully fixed
Hello LyXers, in the last weeks many users had the problem that after installing LyX on Windows, LyX couldn't be started, only the error message Missing textclass.lst is displayed. There was a bug in MIKTeX so that LyX's configuration script wasn't correctly finished when no internet connection was opened to install missing LaTeX-packages. This is now fixed in the latest MiKTeX version 2.5.2580. You can update your MiKTeX installation using MiKTeX's update manager which is accessible in the Start menu under Programs - MiKTeX 2.5. For new installations the next LyXWinInstaller version has the new MiKTeX version bundled. For existing installations the installer asks you to update MiKTeX before you start LyX the first time. Use this option and MiKTeX's update manager will be started by the installer. For explanation: LyX needs some LaTeX-packages for some of its features that are not delivered in the basic installation of MiKTeX. You can use LyX without having these packages installed but then you cannot use all LyX features. If you want to have all packages needed by LyX installed, install LyX while you have an open internet connection or open later an internet connection and reconfigure LyX. regards Uwe
Missing textclass problem while installing LyX under Windows hopefully fixed
Hello LyXers, in the last weeks many users had the problem that after installing LyX on Windows, LyX couldn't be started, only the error message Missing textclass.lst is displayed. There was a bug in MIKTeX so that LyX's configuration script wasn't correctly finished when no internet connection was opened to install missing LaTeX-packages. This is now fixed in the latest MiKTeX version 2.5.2580. You can update your MiKTeX installation using MiKTeX's update manager which is accessible in the Start menu under Programs - MiKTeX 2.5. For new installations the next LyXWinInstaller version has the new MiKTeX version bundled. For existing installations the installer asks you to update MiKTeX before you start LyX the first time. Use this option and MiKTeX's update manager will be started by the installer. For explanation: LyX needs some LaTeX-packages for some of its features that are not delivered in the basic installation of MiKTeX. You can use LyX without having these packages installed but then you cannot use all LyX features. If you want to have all packages needed by LyX installed, install LyX while you have an open internet connection or open later an internet connection and reconfigure LyX. regards Uwe
Missing textclass problem while installing LyX under Windows hopefully fixed
Hello LyXers, in the last weeks many users had the problem that after installing LyX on Windows, LyX couldn't be started, only the error message "Missing textclass.lst" is displayed. There was a bug in MIKTeX so that LyX's configuration script wasn't correctly finished when no internet connection was opened to install missing LaTeX-packages. This is now fixed in the latest MiKTeX version 2.5.2580. You can update your MiKTeX installation using MiKTeX's update manager which is accessible in the Start menu under Programs -> MiKTeX 2.5. For new installations the next LyXWinInstaller version has the new MiKTeX version bundled. For existing installations the installer asks you to update MiKTeX before you start LyX the first time. Use this option and MiKTeX's update manager will be started by the installer. For explanation: LyX needs some LaTeX-packages for some of its features that are not delivered in the basic installation of MiKTeX. You can use LyX without having these packages installed but then you cannot use all LyX features. If you want to have all packages needed by LyX installed, install LyX while you have an open internet connection or open later an internet connection and reconfigure LyX. regards Uwe
Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Hello everyone, I recently reinstalled my windows and thus had to reinstall Miktex and Lyx. For an obscure reason Lyx (even the new version 1.7) doesn't want to work anymore because it can't use latex. Miktex 2.4 is well configured (TexnicCenter works) and latex is in my PATH : $ latex This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) ** Running configure, it appears that Lyx doesn't find a proper latex : $ ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for latex... not useable +checking for latex2e... no I have already seen this message on the internet (including this mailing list) but it was on Linux systems and the answers were more than fuzzy about the origin of the problem. Is that because Miktex now uses e-tex and Lyx wants Latex2e ? Is there something that should be in my PATH that isn't yet ? I really don't understand what I have done wrong because both Miktex and Lyx are freshly installed. Thanks in advance, Kevin
Re: Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Kevin Frugier wrote: I recently reinstalled my windows and thus had to reinstall Miktex and Lyx. For an obscure reason Lyx (even the new version 1.7) doesn't want to work anymore because it can't use latex. $ ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for latex... not useable +checking for latex2e... no Is that because Miktex now uses e-tex and Lyx wants Latex2e? No! e-TeX is an extension of TeX and therefore also LaTeX2e. Is there something that should be in my PATH that isn't yet? Also no. The only problem I could think of is that MiKTeX leaves old entries in the PATH when it is uninstalled. But you used a fresh Windows. I don't know what happens on your system, but I know that it will work when you deinstall MiKTeX and other third party programs and reinstall LyX (and automatically MiKTeX) using the complete Version of my LyX-installer ;-): http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller http://download.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyXWin137Complete-1-0.exe regards Uwe
Re: Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Thank you. An other user who didn't replied to the whole list also mentioned that your installer might work better and it did. Thank you very much. Kevin PS : by the way, when downloading from the ftp, it says the file is corrupt, whereas from the http it's ok Uwe Stöhr a écrit : Kevin Frugier wrote: I recently reinstalled my windows and thus had to reinstall Miktex and Lyx. For an obscure reason Lyx (even the new version 1.7) doesn't want to work anymore because it can't use latex. $ ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for latex... not useable +checking for latex2e... no Is that because Miktex now uses e-tex and Lyx wants Latex2e? No! e-TeX is an extension of TeX and therefore also LaTeX2e. Is there something that should be in my PATH that isn't yet? Also no. The only problem I could think of is that MiKTeX leaves old entries in the PATH when it is uninstalled. But you used a fresh Windows. I don't know what happens on your system, but I know that it will work when you deinstall MiKTeX and other third party programs and reinstall LyX (and automatically MiKTeX) using the complete Version of my LyX-installer ;-): http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller http://download.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyXWin137Complete-1-0.exe regards Uwe
Re: Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Kevin Frugier wrote: An other user who didn't replied to the whole list also mentioned that your installer might work better and it did. Good to hear that it works for you. PS : by the way, when downloading from the ftp, it says the file is corrupt, whereas from the http it's ok Known problem, ftp.lyx.org is at the moment not reachable for us to correct the broken file. regards Uwe
Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Hello everyone, I recently reinstalled my windows and thus had to reinstall Miktex and Lyx. For an obscure reason Lyx (even the new version 1.7) doesn't want to work anymore because it can't use latex. Miktex 2.4 is well configured (TexnicCenter works) and latex is in my PATH : $ latex This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) ** Running configure, it appears that Lyx doesn't find a proper latex : $ ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for latex... not useable +checking for latex2e... no I have already seen this message on the internet (including this mailing list) but it was on Linux systems and the answers were more than fuzzy about the origin of the problem. Is that because Miktex now uses e-tex and Lyx wants Latex2e ? Is there something that should be in my PATH that isn't yet ? I really don't understand what I have done wrong because both Miktex and Lyx are freshly installed. Thanks in advance, Kevin
Re: Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Kevin Frugier wrote: I recently reinstalled my windows and thus had to reinstall Miktex and Lyx. For an obscure reason Lyx (even the new version 1.7) doesn't want to work anymore because it can't use latex. $ ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for latex... not useable +checking for latex2e... no Is that because Miktex now uses e-tex and Lyx wants Latex2e? No! e-TeX is an extension of TeX and therefore also LaTeX2e. Is there something that should be in my PATH that isn't yet? Also no. The only problem I could think of is that MiKTeX leaves old entries in the PATH when it is uninstalled. But you used a fresh Windows. I don't know what happens on your system, but I know that it will work when you deinstall MiKTeX and other third party programs and reinstall LyX (and automatically MiKTeX) using the complete Version of my LyX-installer ;-): http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller http://download.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyXWin137Complete-1-0.exe regards Uwe
Re: Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Thank you. An other user who didn't replied to the whole list also mentioned that your installer might work better and it did. Thank you very much. Kevin PS : by the way, when downloading from the ftp, it says the file is corrupt, whereas from the http it's ok Uwe Stöhr a écrit : Kevin Frugier wrote: I recently reinstalled my windows and thus had to reinstall Miktex and Lyx. For an obscure reason Lyx (even the new version 1.7) doesn't want to work anymore because it can't use latex. $ ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for latex... not useable +checking for latex2e... no Is that because Miktex now uses e-tex and Lyx wants Latex2e? No! e-TeX is an extension of TeX and therefore also LaTeX2e. Is there something that should be in my PATH that isn't yet? Also no. The only problem I could think of is that MiKTeX leaves old entries in the PATH when it is uninstalled. But you used a fresh Windows. I don't know what happens on your system, but I know that it will work when you deinstall MiKTeX and other third party programs and reinstall LyX (and automatically MiKTeX) using the complete Version of my LyX-installer ;-): http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller http://download.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyXWin137Complete-1-0.exe regards Uwe
Re: Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Kevin Frugier wrote: An other user who didn't replied to the whole list also mentioned that your installer might work better and it did. Good to hear that it works for you. PS : by the way, when downloading from the ftp, it says the file is corrupt, whereas from the http it's ok Known problem, ftp.lyx.org is at the moment not reachable for us to correct the broken file. regards Uwe
Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Hello everyone, I recently reinstalled my windows and thus had to reinstall Miktex and Lyx. For an obscure reason Lyx (even the new version 1.7) doesn't want to work anymore because it can't use latex. Miktex 2.4 is well configured (TexnicCenter works) and latex is in my PATH : $ latex This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) ** Running configure, it appears that Lyx doesn't find a proper latex : $ ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for "latex"... not useable +checking for "latex2e"... no I have already seen this message on the internet (including this mailing list) but it was on Linux systems and the answers were more than fuzzy about the origin of the problem. Is that because Miktex now uses e-tex and Lyx wants Latex2e ? Is there something that should be in my PATH that isn't yet ? I really don't understand what I have done wrong because both Miktex and Lyx are freshly installed. Thanks in advance, Kevin
Re: Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Kevin Frugier wrote: I recently reinstalled my windows and thus had to reinstall Miktex and Lyx. For an obscure reason Lyx (even the new version 1.7) doesn't want to work anymore because it can't use latex. $ ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for "latex"... not useable +checking for "latex2e"... no Is that because Miktex now uses e-tex and Lyx wants Latex2e? No! e-TeX is an extension of TeX and therefore also LaTeX2e. Is there something that should be in my PATH that isn't yet? Also no. The only problem I could think of is that MiKTeX leaves old entries in the PATH when it is uninstalled. But you used a fresh Windows. I don't know what happens on your system, but I know that it will work when you deinstall MiKTeX and other third party programs and reinstall LyX (and automatically MiKTeX) using the complete Version of my LyX-installer ;-): http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller http://download.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyXWin137Complete-1-0.exe regards Uwe
Re: Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Thank you. An other user who didn't replied to the whole list also mentioned that your installer might work better and it did. Thank you very much. Kevin PS : by the way, when downloading from the ftp, it says the file is corrupt, whereas from the http it's ok Uwe Stöhr a écrit : Kevin Frugier wrote: I recently reinstalled my windows and thus had to reinstall Miktex and Lyx. For an obscure reason Lyx (even the new version 1.7) doesn't want to work anymore because it can't use latex. $ ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for "latex"... not useable +checking for "latex2e"... no Is that because Miktex now uses e-tex and Lyx wants Latex2e? No! e-TeX is an extension of TeX and therefore also LaTeX2e. Is there something that should be in my PATH that isn't yet? Also no. The only problem I could think of is that MiKTeX leaves old entries in the PATH when it is uninstalled. But you used a fresh Windows. I don't know what happens on your system, but I know that it will work when you deinstall MiKTeX and other third party programs and reinstall LyX (and automatically MiKTeX) using the complete Version of my LyX-installer ;-): http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller http://download.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyXWin137Complete-1-0.exe regards Uwe
Re: Lyx under Windows, latex not useable
Kevin Frugier wrote: An other user who didn't replied to the whole list also mentioned that your installer might work better and it did. Good to hear that it works for you. PS : by the way, when downloading from the ftp, it says the file is corrupt, whereas from the http it's ok Known problem, ftp.lyx.org is at the moment not reachable for us to correct the broken file. regards Uwe
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Hello Paul, and all the others who gave suugestions as well Thanks for the marvellous level of support - way beyond anything I've ever experienced with commercial software - as well as encouragement. The problem seems to have been the old version of sed, as well as an empty version of textclass.lst that somehow happened elsewhere on the HD as a result either of the installation or of my half-baked attempts to get it right. I now have the opening splash screen and a whole program menu to play with, as well as a free Sunday morning... oh happy day! Thanks again to all Richard Paul A. Rubin wrote: Richard Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. This looks fine. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true This is as it should be. When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard The error message typically occurs when either textclass.lst does not exist (anywhere) or textclass.lst exists but has length zero bytes (and *that* typically happens as a result of a problem with the configuration script). Now, if there's no textclass.lst in the directory where LyX starts (which is not necessarily the bin directory), then LyX should find the copy in lyx\share\lyx and start ok (I just verified this on my laptop). On the other hand, if you have a zero-length copy in the startup directory and a valid copy in lyx\share\lyx, you get the error (also just verified). So my best guess is that there is in fact a zero byte version sitting around somewhere. So here are a couple of things to try: 1. Search your PC for all copies of textclass.lst (either using the Windows search utility or by opening a command window and typing 'dir c:\textclass.lst /s'), and see if any copies with length zero show up. That will help pin down where LyX is starting, if in fact we find one. 2. Create a starting document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\work), copy the textclass.lst and paste the copy in there. While you're at it, copy packages.lst, clsfiles.lst, styfiles.lst and lyxrc.default from lyx\share\lyx into the work directory as well. (Not all of those may exist -- some are created by a successful configuration run, and I'm still not sure whether you've had one.) Now create a shortcut to the lyx.exe file (you can right-click it in Win Explorer and create the shortcut from the context menu that pops up). Now right-click the shortcut, choose Properties, and on the Shortcut tab set the target and startup entries as follows: Target: C:\lyx\bin\lyx.exe -userdir c:\lyx\work Start in: C;\lyx\bin (the second one should already be filled in correctly, but just to be sure ...). Click ok and then try to start LyX by double-clicking the shortcut. Does that help? One other thing to check: open a command prompt in c:\lyx\bin and type 'sed --version'. If the version number starts with a 3, you're using the copy of sed that came with the LyX installer, and it's known to fail in a way that leaves a zero-length textclass.lst. There's a tip on the Wiki about where to find a more recent copy of sed. Note that what you download when you follow the link from the Wiki is an *installer* that has to be run to install sed. (Some people have gotten confused and thought they were downloading sed.exe itself.) Let us know what transpires. -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Hello Paul, and all the others who gave suugestions as well Thanks for the marvellous level of support - way beyond anything I've ever experienced with commercial software - as well as encouragement. The problem seems to have been the old version of sed, as well as an empty version of textclass.lst that somehow happened elsewhere on the HD as a result either of the installation or of my half-baked attempts to get it right. I now have the opening splash screen and a whole program menu to play with, as well as a free Sunday morning... oh happy day! Thanks again to all Richard Paul A. Rubin wrote: Richard Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. This looks fine. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true This is as it should be. When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard The error message typically occurs when either textclass.lst does not exist (anywhere) or textclass.lst exists but has length zero bytes (and *that* typically happens as a result of a problem with the configuration script). Now, if there's no textclass.lst in the directory where LyX starts (which is not necessarily the bin directory), then LyX should find the copy in lyx\share\lyx and start ok (I just verified this on my laptop). On the other hand, if you have a zero-length copy in the startup directory and a valid copy in lyx\share\lyx, you get the error (also just verified). So my best guess is that there is in fact a zero byte version sitting around somewhere. So here are a couple of things to try: 1. Search your PC for all copies of textclass.lst (either using the Windows search utility or by opening a command window and typing 'dir c:\textclass.lst /s'), and see if any copies with length zero show up. That will help pin down where LyX is starting, if in fact we find one. 2. Create a starting document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\work), copy the textclass.lst and paste the copy in there. While you're at it, copy packages.lst, clsfiles.lst, styfiles.lst and lyxrc.default from lyx\share\lyx into the work directory as well. (Not all of those may exist -- some are created by a successful configuration run, and I'm still not sure whether you've had one.) Now create a shortcut to the lyx.exe file (you can right-click it in Win Explorer and create the shortcut from the context menu that pops up). Now right-click the shortcut, choose Properties, and on the Shortcut tab set the target and startup entries as follows: Target: C:\lyx\bin\lyx.exe -userdir c:\lyx\work Start in: C;\lyx\bin (the second one should already be filled in correctly, but just to be sure ...). Click ok and then try to start LyX by double-clicking the shortcut. Does that help? One other thing to check: open a command prompt in c:\lyx\bin and type 'sed --version'. If the version number starts with a 3, you're using the copy of sed that came with the LyX installer, and it's known to fail in a way that leaves a zero-length textclass.lst. There's a tip on the Wiki about where to find a more recent copy of sed. Note that what you download when you follow the link from the Wiki is an *installer* that has to be run to install sed. (Some people have gotten confused and thought they were downloading sed.exe itself.) Let us know what transpires. -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Hello Paul, and all the others who gave suugestions as well Thanks for the marvellous level of support - way beyond anything I've ever experienced with commercial software - as well as encouragement. The problem seems to have been the old version of sed, as well as an empty version of textclass.lst that somehow happened elsewhere on the HD as a result either of the installation or of my half-baked attempts to get it right. I now have the opening splash screen and a whole program menu to play with, as well as a free Sunday morning... oh happy day! Thanks again to all Richard Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Richard Brown wrote: > >> Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at >> all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it >> was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was >> lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have >> C:\lyx >> which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the >> exe did this. > > > This looks fine. > >> The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. >> In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one >> called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and >> another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst >> and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of >> textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: >> >> "IEEEtran" "IEEEtran" "article (IEEEtran)" "true" >> "aa" "aa" "article (A)" "false" >> "aapaper" "aa" "article (A V4)" "false" >> "aastex" "aastex" "article (AASTeX)" "true" > > > This is as it should be. > >> When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to >> the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. >> I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory >> to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no >> difference. The error still says >> >> LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description >> >> Check the contents of the file “textclass.lst” >> Sorry, has to exit >> >> >> >> I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to >> give. >> >> Richard > > > The error message typically occurs when either textclass.lst does not > exist (anywhere) or textclass.lst exists but has length zero bytes > (and *that* typically happens as a result of a problem with the > configuration script). Now, if there's no textclass.lst in the > directory where LyX starts (which is not necessarily the bin > directory), then LyX should find the copy in lyx\share\lyx and start > ok (I just verified this on my laptop). On the other hand, if you have > a zero-length copy in the startup directory and a valid copy in > lyx\share\lyx, you get the error (also just verified). So my best > guess is that there is in fact a zero byte version sitting around > somewhere. > > So here are a couple of things to try: > > 1. Search your PC for all copies of textclass.lst (either using the > Windows search utility or by opening a command window and typing 'dir > c:\textclass.lst /s'), and see if any copies with length zero show up. > That will help pin down where LyX is starting, if in fact we find one. > > 2. Create a starting document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\work), > copy the textclass.lst and paste the copy in there. While you're at > it, copy packages.lst, clsfiles.lst, styfiles.lst and lyxrc.default > from lyx\share\lyx into the work directory as well. (Not all of those > may exist -- some are created by a successful configuration run, and > I'm still not sure whether you've had one.) Now create a shortcut to > the lyx.exe file (you can right-click it in Win Explorer and create > the shortcut from the context menu that pops up). Now right-click the > shortcut, choose Properties, and on the Shortcut tab set the target > and startup entries as follows: > > Target: C:\lyx\bin\lyx.exe -userdir c:\lyx\work > Start in: C;\lyx\bin > > (the second one should already be filled in correctly, but just to be > sure ...). Click ok and then try to start LyX by double-clicking the > shortcut. Does that help? > > One other thing to check: open a command prompt in c:\lyx\bin and type > 'sed --version'. If the version number starts with a 3, you're using > the copy of sed that came with the LyX installer, and it's known to > fail in a way that leaves a zero-length textclass.lst. There's a tip > on the Wiki about where to find a more recent copy of sed. Note that > what you download when you follow the link from the Wiki is an > *installer* that has to be run to install sed. (Some people have > gotten confused and thought they were downloading sed.exe itself.) > > Let us know what transpires. > > -- Paul > > >
Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. Thanks in advance for your help: this linux based stuff is all new to me, but I think from reading that lyx will be a major help to me as a professional writer- If I can get it up and running! Richard
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Hei! Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre If you are already using the installer for version 1.3.6, be sure it is the last version (i.e. v.12). The problem you mentioned was presnet in a previous version of the installer, but it should be solved in v.12. Anyway, be sure you have Miktex installed and that you have also installed all your latex class files. Then open Lyx and run Edit-Reconfigure Hope it helps! Nicols Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Nicols a crit: Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is recommended to use LyX 1.3.5 for daily use! regards Uwe
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Uwe Sthr wrote: accents don't work. Uwe, don't the accents work in general or only in the workarea? I.e., do they work in the dialog widgets? Jrgen
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I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I got exactly the same error. Original Message Nicols wrote Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Sorry! I guess you are right Uwe. It is just that I am using v1.3.6 without problems (at least no more than those v1.3.5 has), so therefore I recommended it. But again, you are right, for me works ok, but for other people, using other features than those I use, it may give problems. Uwe Sthr wrote: Nicols a crit: Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is recommended to use LyX 1.3.5 for daily use! regards Uwe
Re: [Fwd: Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP]
Richard Brown wrote: I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I got exactly the same error. I think that I would also suggest that an advanced idiot (;-)) doesn't use LyX 1.3.6pre just yet. There are some bugs in the underlyxing Qt/Win Free library that can cause a hard crash. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre#known_bugs Moving on to the specific problem. Can you open a MinSYS console (since you have installed MinSYS) and type: $ cd /c/Program\ Files/LyX/Resources/lyx $ ls Does the file textclass.lst really not exist? Assuming not, type $ sh configure --keep-temps 21 configure.log (You'll need to have Administrator privileges for this to work if you have installed LyX at this location.) This will save all output from the configure script to a file configure.log. Have a look at it with your favourite text editor. Does it tell you anything interesting? You may need to convert the line endings of configure.log from DOS to UNIX style --- notepad gets horribly confused and prints out the entire file as a single line if it has UNIX style line endings. If so, use the attached sed script, so: $ sed -f unix2dos.sed configure.log tmp $ mv -f tmp configure.log Here, of course, configure runs successfully leaving me with all these files: $ ls binddoc lyxrc.defaults texput.log chkconfig.sed examples Makefiletextclass.lst chkconfig.vars help packages.lstui chklayouts.tex imagesreLyX wrap_chkconfig.log clipart kbd scripts wrap_chkconfig.ltx configure.log layouts templates xfonts Let's see what happens for you. Angus -- Anguss/$/ /
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, The advanced part puts you one up on me. :-) so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. Are you saying that textclass.lst is in the bin directory?? Did you start LyX from the bin directory? Is packages.lst in the bin directory as well (and does it have non-zero length)? The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx Just to confirm your directory structure, lyx.exe is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin, right? I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. AFAIK, LyX and all helper programs are completely agnostic with respect to the processor. You're a brave soul to run XP Pro on a system with only 128MB of RAM, though. (But that doesn't account for the problem at hand.) I'm with the others on this thread -- I'd stick with LyX 1.3.5 for now, rather than become an alpha tester for 1.3.6. FYI, LyX creates a variety of files (including textclass.lst) in your home directory (which is either the directory from which it is started or the directory specified in Edit | Preferences | Paths | Working directory (once you get into LyX and set some preferences). It also creates a subdirectory tree under that directory. To minimize clutter, if for no other reason, I'd advise creating a base document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\documents) and starting it from there. I don't know any reason why it would have trouble finding textclass.lst in the bin directory if that's where it was started, but then I've never tried that (and don't intend to). -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard Paul A. Rubin wrote: Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, The advanced part puts you one up on me. :-) so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. Are you saying that textclass.lst is in the bin directory?? Did you start LyX from the bin directory? Is packages.lst in the bin directory as well (and does it have non-zero length)? The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx Just to confirm your directory structure, lyx.exe is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin, right? I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. AFAIK, LyX and all helper programs are completely agnostic with respect to the processor. You're a brave soul to run XP Pro on a system with only 128MB of RAM, though. (But that doesn't account for the problem at hand.) I'm with the others on this thread -- I'd stick with LyX 1.3.5 for now, rather than become an alpha tester for 1.3.6. FYI, LyX creates a variety of files (including textclass.lst) in your home directory (which is either the directory from which it is started or the directory specified in Edit | Preferences | Paths | Working directory (once you get into LyX and set some preferences). It also creates a subdirectory tree under that directory. To minimize clutter, if for no other reason, I'd advise creating a base document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\documents) and starting it from there. I don't know any reason why it would have trouble finding textclass.lst in the bin directory if that's where it was started, but then I've never tried that (and don't intend to). -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Richard Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. This looks fine. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true This is as it should be. When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard The error message typically occurs when either textclass.lst does not exist (anywhere) or textclass.lst exists but has length zero bytes (and *that* typically happens as a result of a problem with the configuration script). Now, if there's no textclass.lst in the directory where LyX starts (which is not necessarily the bin directory), then LyX should find the copy in lyx\share\lyx and start ok (I just verified this on my laptop). On the other hand, if you have a zero-length copy in the startup directory and a valid copy in lyx\share\lyx, you get the error (also just verified). So my best guess is that there is in fact a zero byte version sitting around somewhere. So here are a couple of things to try: 1. Search your PC for all copies of textclass.lst (either using the Windows search utility or by opening a command window and typing 'dir c:\textclass.lst /s'), and see if any copies with length zero show up. That will help pin down where LyX is starting, if in fact we find one. 2. Create a starting document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\work), copy the textclass.lst and paste the copy in there. While you're at it, copy packages.lst, clsfiles.lst, styfiles.lst and lyxrc.default from lyx\share\lyx into the work directory as well. (Not all of those may exist -- some are created by a successful configuration run, and I'm still not sure whether you've had one.) Now create a shortcut to the lyx.exe file (you can right-click it in Win Explorer and create the shortcut from the context menu that pops up). Now right-click the shortcut, choose Properties, and on the Shortcut tab set the target and startup entries as follows: Target: C:\lyx\bin\lyx.exe -userdir c:\lyx\work Start in: C;\lyx\bin (the second one should already be filled in correctly, but just to be sure ...). Click ok and then try to start LyX by double-clicking the shortcut. Does that help? One other thing to check: open a command prompt in c:\lyx\bin and type 'sed --version'. If the version number starts with a 3, you're using the copy of sed that came with the LyX installer, and it's known to fail in a way that leaves a zero-length textclass.lst. There's a tip on the Wiki about where to find a more recent copy of sed. Note that what you download when you follow the link from the Wiki is an *installer* that has to be run to install sed. (Some people have gotten confused and thought they were downloading sed.exe itself.) Let us know what transpires. -- Paul
Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. Thanks in advance for your help: this linux based stuff is all new to me, but I think from reading that lyx will be a major help to me as a professional writer- If I can get it up and running! Richard
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Hei! Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre If you are already using the installer for version 1.3.6, be sure it is the last version (i.e. v.12). The problem you mentioned was presnet in a previous version of the installer, but it should be solved in v.12. Anyway, be sure you have Miktex installed and that you have also installed all your latex class files. Then open Lyx and run Edit-Reconfigure Hope it helps! Nicols Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Nicols a crit: Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is recommended to use LyX 1.3.5 for daily use! regards Uwe
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Uwe Sthr wrote: accents don't work. Uwe, don't the accents work in general or only in the workarea? I.e., do they work in the dialog widgets? Jrgen
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I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I got exactly the same error. Original Message Nicols wrote Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Sorry! I guess you are right Uwe. It is just that I am using v1.3.6 without problems (at least no more than those v1.3.5 has), so therefore I recommended it. But again, you are right, for me works ok, but for other people, using other features than those I use, it may give problems. Uwe Sthr wrote: Nicols a crit: Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is recommended to use LyX 1.3.5 for daily use! regards Uwe
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Richard Brown wrote: I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I got exactly the same error. I think that I would also suggest that an advanced idiot (;-)) doesn't use LyX 1.3.6pre just yet. There are some bugs in the underlyxing Qt/Win Free library that can cause a hard crash. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre#known_bugs Moving on to the specific problem. Can you open a MinSYS console (since you have installed MinSYS) and type: $ cd /c/Program\ Files/LyX/Resources/lyx $ ls Does the file textclass.lst really not exist? Assuming not, type $ sh configure --keep-temps 21 configure.log (You'll need to have Administrator privileges for this to work if you have installed LyX at this location.) This will save all output from the configure script to a file configure.log. Have a look at it with your favourite text editor. Does it tell you anything interesting? You may need to convert the line endings of configure.log from DOS to UNIX style --- notepad gets horribly confused and prints out the entire file as a single line if it has UNIX style line endings. If so, use the attached sed script, so: $ sed -f unix2dos.sed configure.log tmp $ mv -f tmp configure.log Here, of course, configure runs successfully leaving me with all these files: $ ls binddoc lyxrc.defaults texput.log chkconfig.sed examples Makefiletextclass.lst chkconfig.vars help packages.lstui chklayouts.tex imagesreLyX wrap_chkconfig.log clipart kbd scripts wrap_chkconfig.ltx configure.log layouts templates xfonts Let's see what happens for you. Angus -- Anguss/$/ /
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, The advanced part puts you one up on me. :-) so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. Are you saying that textclass.lst is in the bin directory?? Did you start LyX from the bin directory? Is packages.lst in the bin directory as well (and does it have non-zero length)? The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx Just to confirm your directory structure, lyx.exe is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin, right? I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. AFAIK, LyX and all helper programs are completely agnostic with respect to the processor. You're a brave soul to run XP Pro on a system with only 128MB of RAM, though. (But that doesn't account for the problem at hand.) I'm with the others on this thread -- I'd stick with LyX 1.3.5 for now, rather than become an alpha tester for 1.3.6. FYI, LyX creates a variety of files (including textclass.lst) in your home directory (which is either the directory from which it is started or the directory specified in Edit | Preferences | Paths | Working directory (once you get into LyX and set some preferences). It also creates a subdirectory tree under that directory. To minimize clutter, if for no other reason, I'd advise creating a base document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\documents) and starting it from there. I don't know any reason why it would have trouble finding textclass.lst in the bin directory if that's where it was started, but then I've never tried that (and don't intend to). -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard Paul A. Rubin wrote: Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, The advanced part puts you one up on me. :-) so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. Are you saying that textclass.lst is in the bin directory?? Did you start LyX from the bin directory? Is packages.lst in the bin directory as well (and does it have non-zero length)? The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx Just to confirm your directory structure, lyx.exe is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin, right? I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. AFAIK, LyX and all helper programs are completely agnostic with respect to the processor. You're a brave soul to run XP Pro on a system with only 128MB of RAM, though. (But that doesn't account for the problem at hand.) I'm with the others on this thread -- I'd stick with LyX 1.3.5 for now, rather than become an alpha tester for 1.3.6. FYI, LyX creates a variety of files (including textclass.lst) in your home directory (which is either the directory from which it is started or the directory specified in Edit | Preferences | Paths | Working directory (once you get into LyX and set some preferences). It also creates a subdirectory tree under that directory. To minimize clutter, if for no other reason, I'd advise creating a base document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\documents) and starting it from there. I don't know any reason why it would have trouble finding textclass.lst in the bin directory if that's where it was started, but then I've never tried that (and don't intend to). -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Richard Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. This looks fine. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: IEEEtran IEEEtran article (IEEEtran) true aa aa article (AA) false aapaper aa article (AA V4) false aastex aastex article (AASTeX) true This is as it should be. When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasnt able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file textclass.lst Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard The error message typically occurs when either textclass.lst does not exist (anywhere) or textclass.lst exists but has length zero bytes (and *that* typically happens as a result of a problem with the configuration script). Now, if there's no textclass.lst in the directory where LyX starts (which is not necessarily the bin directory), then LyX should find the copy in lyx\share\lyx and start ok (I just verified this on my laptop). On the other hand, if you have a zero-length copy in the startup directory and a valid copy in lyx\share\lyx, you get the error (also just verified). So my best guess is that there is in fact a zero byte version sitting around somewhere. So here are a couple of things to try: 1. Search your PC for all copies of textclass.lst (either using the Windows search utility or by opening a command window and typing 'dir c:\textclass.lst /s'), and see if any copies with length zero show up. That will help pin down where LyX is starting, if in fact we find one. 2. Create a starting document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\work), copy the textclass.lst and paste the copy in there. While you're at it, copy packages.lst, clsfiles.lst, styfiles.lst and lyxrc.default from lyx\share\lyx into the work directory as well. (Not all of those may exist -- some are created by a successful configuration run, and I'm still not sure whether you've had one.) Now create a shortcut to the lyx.exe file (you can right-click it in Win Explorer and create the shortcut from the context menu that pops up). Now right-click the shortcut, choose Properties, and on the Shortcut tab set the target and startup entries as follows: Target: C:\lyx\bin\lyx.exe -userdir c:\lyx\work Start in: C;\lyx\bin (the second one should already be filled in correctly, but just to be sure ...). Click ok and then try to start LyX by double-clicking the shortcut. Does that help? One other thing to check: open a command prompt in c:\lyx\bin and type 'sed --version'. If the version number starts with a 3, you're using the copy of sed that came with the LyX installer, and it's known to fail in a way that leaves a zero-length textclass.lst. There's a tip on the Wiki about where to find a more recent copy of sed. Note that what you download when you follow the link from the Wiki is an *installer* that has to be run to install sed. (Some people have gotten confused and thought they were downloading sed.exe itself.) Let us know what transpires. -- Paul
Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file “textclass.lst” Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. Thanks in advance for your help: this linux based stuff is all new to me, but I think from reading that lyx will be a major help to me as a professional writer- If I can get it up and running! Richard
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Hei! Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre If you are already using the installer for version 1.3.6, be sure it is the last version (i.e. v.12). The problem you mentioned was presnet in a previous version of the installer, but it should be solved in v.12. Anyway, be sure you have Miktex installed and that you have also installed all your latex class files. Then open Lyx and run Edit->Reconfigure Hope it helps! Nicolás Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file “textclass.lst” Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Nicolás a écrit: Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is recommended to use LyX 1.3.5 for daily use! regards Uwe
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > accents don't work. Uwe, don't the accents work in general or only in the workarea? I.e., do they work in the dialog widgets? Jürgen
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I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I got exactly the same error. Original Message Nicolàs wrote Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Richard Brown wrote: > Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is > advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong. > I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all > sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first > attempt to run lyx I got this error message: > > LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description > > Check the contents of teh file “textclass.lst” > Sorry, has to exit > > > The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, > and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin.
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Sorry! I guess you are right Uwe. It is just that I am using v1.3.6 without problems (at least no more than those v1.3.5 has), so therefore I recommended it. But again, you are right, for me works ok, but for other people, using other features than those I use, it may give problems. Uwe Stöhr wrote: Nicolás a écrit: Are you using version 1.3.6? If not, I recommend you use this version. it comes with ans installer, so life is easier. You can get it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre Attention! This is a testing release and has BUGS!!! E.g. accents don't work. It is recommended to use LyX 1.3.5 for daily use! regards Uwe
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Richard Brown wrote: > I tried that just now. It all installed apparently quite hapily. Then I > got exactly the same error. I think that I would also suggest that an "advanced idiot" (;-)) doesn't use LyX 1.3.6pre just yet. There are some bugs in the underlyxing Qt/Win Free library that can cause a hard crash. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre#known_bugs Moving on to the specific problem. Can you open a MinSYS console (since you have installed MinSYS) and type: $ cd /c/Program\ Files/LyX/Resources/lyx $ ls Does the file "textclass.lst" really not exist? Assuming not, type $ sh configure --keep-temps 2>&1 > configure.log (You'll need to have Administrator privileges for this to work if you have installed LyX at this location.) This will save all output from the configure script to a file configure.log. Have a look at it with your favourite text editor. Does it tell you anything interesting? You may need to convert the line endings of configure.log from DOS to UNIX style --- notepad gets horribly confused and prints out the entire file as a single line if it has UNIX style line endings. If so, use the attached sed script, so: $ sed -f unix2dos.sed configure.log > tmp $ mv -f tmp configure.log Here, of course, configure runs successfully leaving me with all these files: $ ls binddoc lyxrc.defaults texput.log chkconfig.sed examples Makefiletextclass.lst chkconfig.vars help packages.lstui chklayouts.tex imagesreLyX wrap_chkconfig.log clipart kbd scripts wrap_chkconfig.ltx configure.log layouts templates xfonts Let's see what happens for you. Angus -- Anguss/$/ /
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Richard Brown wrote: Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is advanced idiot, The "advanced" part puts you one up on me. :-) so I've assuredly done something wrong. I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first attempt to run lyx I got this error message: LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description Check the contents of teh file “textclass.lst” Sorry, has to exit The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. Are you saying that textclass.lst is in the bin directory?? Did you start LyX from the bin directory? Is packages.lst in the bin directory as well (and does it have non-zero length)? The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx Just to confirm your directory structure, lyx.exe is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin, right? I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of free disk space. AFAIK, LyX and all helper programs are completely agnostic with respect to the processor. You're a brave soul to run XP Pro on a system with only 128MB of RAM, though. (But that doesn't account for the problem at hand.) I'm with the others on this thread -- I'd stick with LyX 1.3.5 for now, rather than become an alpha tester for 1.3.6. FYI, LyX creates a variety of files (including textclass.lst) in your "home" directory (which is either the directory from which it is started or the directory specified in Edit | Preferences | Paths | Working directory (once you get into LyX and set some preferences). It also creates a subdirectory tree under that directory. To minimize clutter, if for no other reason, I'd advise creating a base document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\documents) and starting it from there. I don't know any reason why it would have trouble finding textclass.lst in the bin directory if that's where it was started, but then I've never tried that (and don't intend to). -- Paul
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: "IEEEtran" "IEEEtran" "article (IEEEtran)" "true" "aa" "aa" "article (A)" "false" "aapaper" "aa" "article (A V4)" "false" "aastex" "aastex" "article (AASTeX)" "true" When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file “textclass.lst” Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Richard Brown wrote: > >> Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is >> advanced idiot, > > > The "advanced" part puts you one up on me. :-) > >> so I've assuredly done something wrong. >> I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all >> sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first >> attempt to run lyx I got this error message: >> >> LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description >> >> Check the contents of teh file “textclass.lst” >> Sorry, has to exit >> >> >> The file exists, and isn't empty, and is the file the installation made, >> and is in c:\lyx\lyx\bin. > > > Are you saying that textclass.lst is in the bin directory?? Did you > start LyX from the bin directory? Is packages.lst in the bin directory > as well (and does it have non-zero length)? > >> The whole program is in c:\lyx\lyx > > > Just to confirm your directory structure, lyx.exe is in > c:\lyx\lyx\bin, right? > >> I'm using win xp pro on an amd 1300 with 128 RAM and loads and loads of >> free disk space. > > > AFAIK, LyX and all helper programs are completely agnostic with > respect to the processor. You're a brave soul to run XP Pro on a > system with only 128MB of RAM, though. (But that doesn't account for > the problem at hand.) > > I'm with the others on this thread -- I'd stick with LyX 1.3.5 for > now, rather than become an alpha tester for 1.3.6. > > FYI, LyX creates a variety of files (including textclass.lst) in your > "home" directory (which is either the directory from which it is > started or the directory specified in Edit | Preferences | Paths | > Working directory (once you get into LyX and set some preferences). It > also creates a subdirectory tree under that directory. To minimize > clutter, if for no other reason, I'd advise creating a base document > directory (for instance, c:\lyx\documents) and starting it from there. > I don't know any reason why it would have trouble finding > textclass.lst in the bin directory if that's where it was started, but > then I've never tried that (and don't intend to). > > -- Paul > > >
Re: Help with installing lyx under windows XP
Richard Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe) with the following result: in C: I now have C:\lyx which contains bin, lib, man, share, tmp directories. I did nothing- the exe did this. This looks fine. The C:\lyx\bin subdirectory contains the lyx.exe program. In the c:\lyx\share subdirectory I find 2 more sub-subdirectories, one called locale (which seems to have a lot of other language stuff) and another called lyx (so this is c:\lyx\share\lyx ) which has packages.lst and textclass.lst files in. Neither is empty. The first four lines of textclass.lst are typical of the rest, and look like this-: "IEEEtran" "IEEEtran" "article (IEEEtran)" "true" "aa" "aa" "article (A)" "false" "aapaper" "aa" "article (A V4)" "false" "aastex" "aastex" "article (AASTeX)" "true" This is as it should be. When I run lyx, I still get the same error. I tried copying lyx.exe to the same directory as the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same. I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no difference. The error still says LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description Check the contents of the file “textclass.lst” Sorry, has to exit I'm way out of my depth here. Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Richard The error message typically occurs when either textclass.lst does not exist (anywhere) or textclass.lst exists but has length zero bytes (and *that* typically happens as a result of a problem with the configuration script). Now, if there's no textclass.lst in the directory where LyX starts (which is not necessarily the bin directory), then LyX should find the copy in lyx\share\lyx and start ok (I just verified this on my laptop). On the other hand, if you have a zero-length copy in the startup directory and a valid copy in lyx\share\lyx, you get the error (also just verified). So my best guess is that there is in fact a zero byte version sitting around somewhere. So here are a couple of things to try: 1. Search your PC for all copies of textclass.lst (either using the Windows search utility or by opening a command window and typing 'dir c:\textclass.lst /s'), and see if any copies with length zero show up. That will help pin down where LyX is starting, if in fact we find one. 2. Create a starting document directory (for instance, c:\lyx\work), copy the textclass.lst and paste the copy in there. While you're at it, copy packages.lst, clsfiles.lst, styfiles.lst and lyxrc.default from lyx\share\lyx into the work directory as well. (Not all of those may exist -- some are created by a successful configuration run, and I'm still not sure whether you've had one.) Now create a shortcut to the lyx.exe file (you can right-click it in Win Explorer and create the shortcut from the context menu that pops up). Now right-click the shortcut, choose Properties, and on the Shortcut tab set the target and startup entries as follows: Target: C:\lyx\bin\lyx.exe -userdir c:\lyx\work Start in: C;\lyx\bin (the second one should already be filled in correctly, but just to be sure ...). Click ok and then try to start LyX by double-clicking the shortcut. Does that help? One other thing to check: open a command prompt in c:\lyx\bin and type 'sed --version'. If the version number starts with a 3, you're using the copy of sed that came with the LyX installer, and it's known to fail in a way that leaves a zero-length textclass.lst. There's a tip on the Wiki about where to find a more recent copy of sed. Note that what you download when you follow the link from the Wiki is an *installer* that has to be run to install sed. (Some people have gotten confused and thought they were downloading sed.exe itself.) Let us know what transpires. -- Paul
Lyx under Windows question
Hi, I installed under Windows the native win32 version. The only Problem is, that I write in German, the commands appeare in English, so Chapter 1 Beispieltext. This is not really good...; under Linux I have the german translation of lyx. Is there a way to change this, something like a configuration variable? Thanks, Tibor
Re: Lyx under Windows question
I installed under Windows the native win32 version. The only Problem is, that I write in German, the commands appeare in English, so Chapter 1 Beispieltext. This is not really good...; under Linux I have the german translation of lyx. Is there a way to change this, something like a configuration variable? Try to change the language of your document to German: Layout--Document--Language. I hope this helps you. Paul
Lyx under Windows question
Hi, I installed under Windows the native win32 version. The only Problem is, that I write in German, the commands appeare in English, so Chapter 1 Beispieltext. This is not really good...; under Linux I have the german translation of lyx. Is there a way to change this, something like a configuration variable? Thanks, Tibor
Re: Lyx under Windows question
I installed under Windows the native win32 version. The only Problem is, that I write in German, the commands appeare in English, so Chapter 1 Beispieltext. This is not really good...; under Linux I have the german translation of lyx. Is there a way to change this, something like a configuration variable? Try to change the language of your document to German: Layout--Document--Language. I hope this helps you. Paul
Lyx under Windows question
Hi, I installed under Windows the native win32 version. The only Problem is, that I write in German, the "commands" appeare in English, so Chapter 1 Beispieltext. This is not really good...; under Linux I have the german translation of lyx. Is there a way to change this, something like a configuration variable? Thanks, Tibor
Re: Lyx under Windows question
I installed under Windows the native win32 version. The only Problem is, that I write in German, the "commands" appeare in English, so Chapter 1 Beispieltext. This is not really good...; under Linux I have the german translation of lyx. Is there a way to change this, something like a configuration variable? Try to change the language of your document to German: Layout-->Document-->Language. I hope this helps you. Paul
lyx under Windows
Sorry, I just checked the windows site for lyx and read the prerequisites...
Re: lyx under Windows
Anca Tibor- Attila wrote: Sorry, I just checked the windows site for lyx and read the prerequisites... Not sure which version you checked but there are two versions for Windows - one uses Cygwin and needs an X-server (such as Exceed or Xwin32 or Cygwin's XFree86). The other one, known as the Win32 port, by Ruurd Reitsma, is a native Windows port and hence all you need is LaTeX (and you'll need the graphics manipulation program, spellchecker etc. just like in any other port). The former is based on LyX 1.3.1 and uses XForms for the frontend while the latter is based on 1.3.2 and uses Qt.. Ruurd's port is easier to install... nirmal
lyx under Windows
Sorry, I just checked the windows site for lyx and read the prerequisites...
Re: lyx under Windows
Anca Tibor- Attila wrote: Sorry, I just checked the windows site for lyx and read the prerequisites... Not sure which version you checked but there are two versions for Windows - one uses Cygwin and needs an X-server (such as Exceed or Xwin32 or Cygwin's XFree86). The other one, known as the Win32 port, by Ruurd Reitsma, is a native Windows port and hence all you need is LaTeX (and you'll need the graphics manipulation program, spellchecker etc. just like in any other port). The former is based on LyX 1.3.1 and uses XForms for the frontend while the latter is based on 1.3.2 and uses Qt.. Ruurd's port is easier to install... nirmal
lyx under Windows
Sorry, I just checked the windows site for lyx and read the prerequisites...
Re: lyx under Windows
Anca Tibor- Attila wrote: Sorry, I just checked the windows site for lyx and read the prerequisites... Not sure which version you checked but there are two versions for Windows - one uses Cygwin and needs an X-server (such as Exceed or Xwin32 or Cygwin's XFree86). The other one, known as the Win32 port, by Ruurd Reitsma, is a native Windows port and hence all you need is LaTeX (and you'll need the graphics manipulation program, spellchecker etc. just like in any other port). The former is based on LyX 1.3.1 and uses XForms for the frontend while the latter is based on 1.3.2 and uses Qt.. Ruurd's port is easier to install... nirmal
Running Lyx under Windows 98SE
Hi, I have been running Lyx116fix1 under windows and have downloaded the latest version lyx116fix3b. I am using Starnet X-Server and Cygwin 1.3.6. The problem is that Lyxwin32.exe does not run, but lyx.exe does - however I get the error that it cannot find the x-server. I have set up the paths as suggested on Claus's website. Any ideas appreciated. (Lyx runs very well under Linux, but I sometimes have to use it under Windows.) I am sorry if this is not the correct place for posting this problem. Thanks Paul _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Running Lyx under Windows 98SE
The problem is that Lyxwin32.exe does not run, but lyx.exe does - however I get the error that it cannot find the x-server. I have set up the paths as suggested on Claus's website. Any ideas appreciated. (Lyx runs very well under Linux, but I sometimes have to use it under Windows.) I have upgraded from Cygwin 1.3.3 to 1.3.6, too and had the same problem. Some tests show that I have to change the wrapper program lyxwin32 a little bit, because beginning with cygwin 1.3.6 the bash called will no longer be invoked as a login shell by default. Passing a nother argument ( --login ) to the bash will do the trick. Anyway! I have released a new wrapper program on my web page http://www.fh-hannover.de/mbau/tim/hentschel/lyx/index.htm Download and install the tarball as described there and Lyx can be started as before! Claus
Re Running Lyx under Windows 98SE
Thanks for the quick reply. I have Lyx running using the method posted by Claus on 28 oct 2001 Re:lyx - windows 2000. But it keeps locking solid - I have to press reset button! It seems to keep locking up if I open more than 1 or two examples, or other menu activity. There must be a problem with my X configuration. Thanks Paul _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
Running Lyx under Windows 98SE
Hi, I have been running Lyx116fix1 under windows and have downloaded the latest version lyx116fix3b. I am using Starnet X-Server and Cygwin 1.3.6. The problem is that Lyxwin32.exe does not run, but lyx.exe does - however I get the error that it cannot find the x-server. I have set up the paths as suggested on Claus's website. Any ideas appreciated. (Lyx runs very well under Linux, but I sometimes have to use it under Windows.) I am sorry if this is not the correct place for posting this problem. Thanks Paul _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Running Lyx under Windows 98SE
The problem is that Lyxwin32.exe does not run, but lyx.exe does - however I get the error that it cannot find the x-server. I have set up the paths as suggested on Claus's website. Any ideas appreciated. (Lyx runs very well under Linux, but I sometimes have to use it under Windows.) I have upgraded from Cygwin 1.3.3 to 1.3.6, too and had the same problem. Some tests show that I have to change the wrapper program lyxwin32 a little bit, because beginning with cygwin 1.3.6 the bash called will no longer be invoked as a login shell by default. Passing a nother argument ( --login ) to the bash will do the trick. Anyway! I have released a new wrapper program on my web page http://www.fh-hannover.de/mbau/tim/hentschel/lyx/index.htm Download and install the tarball as described there and Lyx can be started as before! Claus
Re Running Lyx under Windows 98SE
Thanks for the quick reply. I have Lyx running using the method posted by Claus on 28 oct 2001 Re:lyx - windows 2000. But it keeps locking solid - I have to press reset button! It seems to keep locking up if I open more than 1 or two examples, or other menu activity. There must be a problem with my X configuration. Thanks Paul _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
Running Lyx under Windows 98SE
Hi, I have been running Lyx116fix1 under windows and have downloaded the latest version lyx116fix3b. I am using Starnet X-Server and Cygwin 1.3.6. The problem is that Lyxwin32.exe does not run, but lyx.exe does - however I get the error that it cannot find the x-server. I have set up the paths as suggested on Claus's website. Any ideas appreciated. (Lyx runs very well under Linux, but I sometimes have to use it under Windows.) I am sorry if this is not the correct place for posting this problem. Thanks Paul _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Running Lyx under Windows 98SE
> The problem is that Lyxwin32.exe does not run, but lyx.exe does - however I > get the error that it cannot find the x-server. I have set up the paths as > suggested on Claus's website. Any ideas appreciated. (Lyx runs very well > under Linux, but I sometimes have to use it under Windows.) I have upgraded from Cygwin 1.3.3 to 1.3.6, too and had the same problem. Some tests show that I have to change the wrapper program lyxwin32 a little bit, because beginning with cygwin 1.3.6 the bash called will no longer be invoked as a login shell by default. Passing a nother argument ( --login ) to the bash will do the trick. Anyway! I have released a new wrapper program on my web page http://www.fh-hannover.de/mbau/tim/hentschel/lyx/index.htm Download and install the tarball as described there and Lyx can be started as before! Claus
Re Running Lyx under Windows 98SE
Thanks for the quick reply. I have Lyx running using the method posted by Claus on 28 oct 2001 "Re:lyx - windows 2000. But it keeps locking solid - I have to press reset button! It seems to keep locking up if I open more than 1 or two examples, or other menu activity. There must be a problem with my X configuration. Thanks Paul _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
