Tariq Kamal wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm a relatively new user to LyX (installed it a couple of months ago
> in my laptop, and I've barely scratched the surface of its
> functionality). As it was, I figured that installing LyX into my work
> system would be a good idea. So I downloaded the
> LyXWin137preComplete-0-51.exe package for installation on my work PC
> (which runs Windows XP), and figured that it would not take more than
> half an hour to install, tops.
>
> In retrospect, using the 1.37 release might have been a mistake. The
> first attempt, I ended up getting this message:
>
> "LyX wasn't able to find any layout description!
>
> Check the contents of the file "textclass.lst"
> Sorry, has to exit :-("
>
> Right. So I checked textclass.lst, and this is what I saw:
>
> ## This file declares layouts and their associated definition files.
> ## It has been automatically generated by configure
> ## Use "Options/Reconfigure" if you need to update it after a
> ## configuration change. Run ./configure manually to update the
> ## system wide version of this file.
>
> That's it. Nothing else. The other LST file, packages.lst, is at 0
> bytes. I'm guessing that this isn't the normal state of affairs.
>
> This situation has persisted, even after I did the following things:
>From an MSYS terminal window (maybe even a cmd.exe one for all I know):
cd "C:/Program Files/LyX/Resources/lyx"
<PATH TO>/sh.exe configure
That will generate the missing files.
--
Angus
