I've installed Lyx a few times... and once... s* happend to MikTeX, which
causes LyX to not work. I took my one evening resolving problem... and then
I read next day that MikTeX repositories are broken so updated MikTeX could
not work with LyX.
LyX is great. MikTeX sometime makes problems. This fact shoulde be marked
somewhere in LyX reconfiguration procedure, maybe.
Regards,
M
2008/3/22, Louis Brazeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Bill King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yes, it's me again, the same guy who couldn't get lyx to work in
> Ubuntu
> > 7.10. Just downloaded and installed what is supposed to be a COMPLETE
> > operative LyX/LaTeX/Tex system in windows (from your download
> page--vers.
> > 1.5.4). It also DOESN'T WORK!
> >
> > After the installation, I clicked the desktop shortcut. Nothing
> happened
> > for such a long time I was beginning to think nothing would ever
> happen and
> > that the program was just broken. It took 50 sec. to start, with no
> > indication in the meantime that anything was happening.
> >
> > It's running now. Apparently it eats up so much of the system
> resources (in
> > WinXP, 2.8 GHz Intel Pentium 4, 1 GB of RAM) that my system has been
> dragged
> > down to almost a complete halt! I've never seen things move this
> slowly
> > before, EVEN IN WINDOWS!
> >
> > Finally, just as was the case in Linux, it WILL NOT EVEN PRINT ITS OWN
> > DOCUMENTATION! That is just flat out RETARDED. I spent a good bit of
> last
> > night installing every Latex doodad I could get my hands on in Linux.
> > Nothing helped. Hence, my trial in Windows this afternoon. Got
> exactly the
> > same error message. (Attached)
> >
> > I don't buy the blame-it-on-the-OS mentality that a lot of of software
> > programmers seem to have these days (e.g., broken GIMP on Mac OS X
> 10.5).
> > If the software doesn't work, it just DOESN'T WORK! (Btw, the Latex
> > Configuration item under Help wouldn't open at all, so couldn't check
> that
> > either to see what might be broken.)
> >
> > Thank you for your time. I'm wiping this crap off both my HDs now!
> >
>
>
> I just installed that same version in Windows XP and it works great.
> Installation was very easy (I just accepted the default). The
> installation process automatically installed MiKTeX, ImageMagic,
> ghostscript and aspel.
>
> First start does take a long time (several minutes here) but after
> that, it's much quicker (6 seconds). And my system (AMD Athlon 3000+,
> 2.15 GHz, 1 GB RAM) was as responsive as ever during the 1st start.
>
> As a test I tried printing the documentation and, again, no problem.
>
> I have never used Ubuntu, so I can't talk about that. But, I've been
> running LyX under ArchLinux for a couple of weeks with no problem.
>
> Weird
>
> --
>
> Louis Brazeau
> Informaticien
>
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