Updates on the continuing (non) installation saga
This replies to a number of postings by Steven and Paul over the Sunday
14 & Nov 14, 2005. Hopefully I have not missed any important suggestions. I
decided to use Yahoo mail for the list since I don't use it much otherwise and
thought it would keep things separate. Unfortunately I had not realised the
rather serious limitations of it for handling a mail list.
Anyway
I did have an earlier installation of LyX Small a few weeks ago when I
was trying to install LyX 1.3.5. As far as I have been able to tell, there are
no files/folders left from that attempt. I spend a good while late yesterday
and this morning checking. Also checked for *.tex files and found nothing
suspicious.
Since then I have tried both the large and whole installations both from
the hard drive.
The last installation I also disabled my virus protection.
I have checked and could not find any rogue Latex.exe files and I have
hunted down and exterminated the localtexmf and texmf and the only texmf which
was in my R folder. I simply removed R for the moment. :)
I copied ltxcheck.tex to C:\texmf ran C:\texmf>latex ltxcheck.tex with
the same results as when I ran the 'latex chklatex.ltx' . That is, files not
found etc.
I then tried the c:\fmtutil all with this result
C:\>fmtutil --all
'fmtutil' is not recognized as an internal or external
command,
operable program or batch file.
I tried initex latex.lts Latex.lts does not seem to exist. A search of C
drive did not find it.
C:\texmf>initex latex.lts
This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (MiKTeX 2.4) (INITEX)
! I can't find file `latex.lts'.
<*> latex.lts
You suggested that I try printing outside the LyX environment but I have not
a clue how to do this. Nothing re printing etc can be seen in the View menu.
As noted before I cannot print or export except in ASCII. Custom export leaves
me with a blank command line. Should I be able to type in a command?
I just noticed from the mailing list that a new LyX installer is out. I
may bring in the exterminators again, sanitize the machine and give it a try.
Thanks for all the help so far. I certainly have learned a lot (most of
it useful :) and recalled a bunch of DOS commands I would happily had remain
forgotten.
John Kane, Kingston ON Canada
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