Today I tried to install lyx 1.4.1 on my sisters PC. Not something I had too much time for, it was done inbetween solving afileserver problem.
Windows is not my platform of choice - and so it went wrong. The experience was very similiar to the time when I tried 1.3.6 on my mothers pc. First, the lyx installer looked up the websites of all these other necessary things (gostscript, pythong,...) Unfortunately, none were actually installed, I just got the correct download page in explorer. But that's ok, I new what to do although it'd be ice if it was automatic. After a lot of downloading and subsystem installations, lyx failed to configure itself. Running the lyx batch file just fails with "Error reading the configuration file lyxrc.defaults. Please check your installation. And again - no path to the msys stuff. Added that temporarily, ran "sh configure" and a lot of things happened. So lyx starts, but no view->dvi, no view->pdf, no printing. And no time to figure it out. I have probably left when the replies comes, so this install will be broken for some time. Still, if theproblem report could be useful . . . Helge Hafting
