On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Paul Rubin <ru...@msu.edu> wrote: > ** > On 09/03/2011 06:46 PM, Jane Shevtsov wrote: > > OK, even uninstalling doesn't work right. The error message says, "The > operation could not be completed for the following reasons: The IniTeXMF > executable could not be found.". > > Find the MiKTeX directory under C:\Program Files (86) and delete it > manually. Then find the MiKTeX directories under your roving profile and > any other profile (if you refer back to the error message where it > complained about no formats.ini, a bunch of paths were listed there). Next, > I would suggest you install the free version of CCleaner ( > http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download). Once that's installed, it > will offer to run itself -- do so, find the tab that cleans the registry, > and use that to get rid of any problem keys (pointing to now-nonexistent > directories). Personally, I always just tell it fix all the problems it > finds. Once you've cleaned the registry, proceed with reinstalling. You > may wish to make a sacrifice to the Computing Gods to appease them before > reinstalling. > > The appropriate deities having been propitiated, I was able to uninstall MiKTeX and then install the latest version (the basic installation). I then successfully used pdflatex from the command prompt. Now, how do I connect LyX to the new MiKTeX installation?
Thanks, Jane -- ------------- Jane Shevtsov Ecology Ph.D. candidate, University of Georgia co-founder, www.worldbeyondborders.org "All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born." --Francois Fenelon, theologian and writer (1651-1715)
