----- Original Message -----
From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 4:49 PM
Subject: GSview/Ghostscript problems
Stephen Harris wrote:
I downloaded your Lyx1.3.6_1 version 2 installer yesterday, Nov. 15,
the full version. But I only uninstall my old Lyx1.3.6. Still the install
went well. And it loaded Gsview to c:\program files, which was not
where I have one. It showed up in the Edit/Preferences/Path prefix.
Strangely, the Path prefix also showed gs8.13 which I've deleted
in favor of gs8.51and which is also in my Windows path. So I'm
not sure where it came from,
The installer checks in the registry for ther version numbers of
Ghostscript, if one is found its path is added to the path_prefix. 8.13
comes before 8.51 in the registry and you therefore had troubles.
Have you deinstalled version 8.13 before you installed 8.51? Having two
version installed mostly error prone.
But anyway another user reported me that old GS (de)installers don't
delete the registry keys correctly so that my installer find wrong
versions. I'll check this and if this is the case I'll change the code so
that only the greatest version number is taken for the path_prefix.
Sigh, I've never thaught that the installer stuff will be so complicated
and takes so much time.
It must bring you a rare joy unexperienced my most mortals. :=)
regards Uwe
Yes, I did a find for (gs8.13) in the registry and there it was.
So I deleted the gs8.13 value. I did a fresh uninstall/reinstall
of just LyX. I copied just find.exe from C:\msys\1.0\bin to
C:\Lyx\bin. Tex Information was correct. Everything seems
to work perfectly. The spellchecker also worked, although it
was not shown in the Path Prefix; I have it installed in C:\Aspell
which is in my Windows path. I didn't dl a non-English dictionary.
To test it thoroughly I suppose I should uninstall everything
but Aspell. Version 2 has small problems easy to fix manually.
It looks ideal for newcomer installations, someone complained
about having to visit the websites for installs, though I should
test it. Let's hope the LyX improvements are easy to incorporate.
Good job, thank you,
Stephen
