> Hi > > I downloaded and installed MikTex on Windows XP. After that I downloaded > the basic installer for Lyx 1.4 and had basically necessary components > installed as indicated by the installer wizard, this included the current > Miktex 2.5 that was used as the Latex base. > > Initially I could open Lyx but told me an output could not be generated. I > also told me about missing classes which I don't know whether this should > be installed using the Miktex package manager? Finally I tried to open some > of the templates and which another class was missing and after that gave me > a popup to indicate possible software error and that Lyx closed due to > unexpected situation. Report was: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses > found! > and since that I wasn't able to open Lyx again. Should I uninstall Lyx? Is > it better to download more Miktex packages? > > Can you please help me to get going? I ask for your patience as I would > like to test Lyx and use it instead of MS-Word for my thesis document. I'm > not a software expert. > > Thanks very much! > Wiehann
Hi Wiehann, please keep sending messages to the list, I am not expert on Windows, other people here may know more to help you. When I install LyX to my colleagues I usually use LyXWinInstaller: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller So far, I did not have any problems with it. I have heard some of my colleagues saying that they killed LyX when running Reconfigure and they were not able to start it again. In this case, re-installation helped them. So you can give it a try. In general, I can imagine two causes of missing classes: 1) your miktex classes are not found at all, 2) you are using a template for which you do not have the corresponding .cls style. If you do not use MikTeX for other purpose, I would suggest to let the installer install it into its default location. Then, do not go for templates but create empty new file Menu>File>New. By default it is an article, which is in every distribution, then, in Document>Settings see pop-down item "Documentclass". There, in the upper part, you will see classes that are found in MiKTeX and in the lower part those that are not found. If you want to use any of the "Unavailable" classes, you must add them to MiKTex using Miktex_update, and then run Tools>Reconfigure in LyX. Vasek -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D. tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department, Institute web: http://staff.utia.cz/smidl/ of Information Theory and Automation, fax: +420 26605 2068 Prague, Czech Republic
