John,
Did you try updating your format files using the MiKTeX Options program
(General tab, Format files section, Update Now button) and, if so, did
anything on your computer melt?
Paul
John Kane wrote:
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
