Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This installer worked out correctly that I have MikTeX, MSys, Python > > already installed. However, when I install LyX 1.4 I find that > > c:\Program Files\LyX14 contains: > > and the python and shell directories aren't empty: > > Note that the installer detects MiKTeX, ImageMagick and Ghostscript. The > few Python/MSYS files LyX needs are bundled and will always be installed > in those directories. > > The reason is that these files are absolute requirements to get LyX to > work and users should not have to download the full Python/MSYS.
Noooooooo! I already have these things installed. Trust the user! I manually deleted your shell and python directories, adjusted path_prefix to "C:/MSys/bin;C:/Python24;..." and everything works perfectly. > Aspell data is installed in "Application Data" (the one for all users or > the current user) unless the user has manually installed it somewhere > else before. The dictionaries are also installed there. This is the > place where things like dictionaries belong and the user always has > write access to it. Thanks for the info. Angus
