I am guessing this is a fairly common issue, but I have scoured the
users, developers, gname, etc. mailing lists and have turned up one
reference to a similar problem. However, there were no responses to
the posting.
I am trying to install LyX on a Windows XP machine. I have installed
MiKTex, Ghostscript, ImageMagick and LyX 1.3.5.
>From the instructions, I believed that to run LyX initially was as
simple as double-clicking the executable.
Unfortunately, I got this message in the xterm:
LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!
And this message in a warning box:
LyX wasn't able to find any layout description!
Check the contents of the file "textclass.lst"
Sorry, has to exit :-(
I have a textclass.lst file in my
c:/LatexPrograms/lyx/share
directory.
I am not sure what I am looking for in this file.
Did I miss something in my installation or is there some documentation
somewhere to help me fix my problem? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Here is my full configuration information:
lyx -version
LyX 1.3.5 of Wed, Oct 6, 2004
Built on Jan 3 2005, 09:55:08
Configuration
Host type: i686-pc-cygwin
Special build flags:
C Compiler: wrapmsvc
C Compiler flags: -g
C++ Compiler: wrapmsvc
C++ Compiler flags: /Zc:forScope /MD /EHsc /O2
Linker flags: -L/cygdrive/c/Qt/3.2.1NonCommercial/lib
Frontend: qt
Qt version: 3.2.1
LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin
LyX files dir: /usr/local/share/lyx
It should be noted that I do not have a /usr/local directory at all,
so I am not sure what these last two things are pointing to.
Thanks again,
William DeShazer
