Yes, I wondered why eudora was being looked for; but it was, at least in
the installer that I tried. This was Uwe Stohr's version, described in the
thread
[LyXWin Installer] new small version for testing
of June 13, which as I understand it, is an all-in-one installer. However,
it seems that this wasn't the right one.
So I tried the new one. This time no Eudora; somewhat different look and
feel. I accepted all the suggestions except that I put Lyx into
c:\ProgramFiles\Lyx instead of "c:\Program Files\Lyx" (with a space). This
time the installer posted a message "Failed attempting to execute the
configure script". On clicking OK, the main thread resumed, saying that Lyx
had been successfully installed. But when the program tried to start it
reported "LyX wasn't able to find its layout descriptors" and closed.
Is it possible that python and/or mysys were not installed correctly?
Neither is in my path - should they be?
May I say that the experimental all-in-one installer seems to me to be
preferable, certainly to a new user. I understand the problems with
including everything; still, in the piecemeal installer, I think that
perhaps it should be more obvious that you need to interrupt the Lyx
installation routine to retrieve and install the various packages.
If there are things I can report that can help diagnose the problem(s),
please let me know.
Installer:
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX136pre/lyx_setup_136_version17.exe
OS: Win XP, sp2
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Philip A. Viton
City Planning, Ohio State University
275 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus OH 43210
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