Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-03 Thread Stephen Harris
Eric Inazaki wrote: Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On 8/2/06, Eric Inazaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in "C:\Program Files" directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. This happened to me on my first installatio

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Bo Peng
> Right after I installed lyx, it spent a lot of time downloading stuff. Lyx is checking for some classes, miktex does not have them so it installs them automatically. 1.4.3 will give you more prompt information, but this process will take the same long time. Windows being Windows, the most I

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eric Inazaki wrote: Did it give you a message about not finding class files? There have been instances where LyX installed properly but the configuration script failed, and subsequently LyX would not start because it could not find the requisite configuration information. (But it would at lea

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Eric Inazaki
Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 8/2/06, Eric Inazaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in > > "C:\Program Files" directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and > > Windows 2000, by the way. This happened to me on my first > > installation a

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Eric Inazaki
Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Eric Inazaki wrote: > > Did it give you a message about not finding class files? There have > been instances where LyX installed properly but the configuration script > failed, and subsequently LyX would not start because it could not find > the

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Bo Peng
On 8/2/06, Eric Inazaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in "C:\Program Files" directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. This happened to me on my first installation attempt. I tried reinstalling to "C:\" and that works ok

Re: installing lyx on windows

2006-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eric Inazaki wrote: Does lyx choke (i.e. fail to start) when it's installed in "C:\Program Files" directory? This is with lyx 1.4.2 and Windows 2000, by the way. No, it works fine from C:\Program Files\... This happened to me on my first installation attempt. I tried reinstalling to "C:\" a

Re: Installing Lyx on Windows: pb with Python (or msys?)

2005-11-16 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 22:44, mel b wrote: > and the message is an ImportError for the os module. This is an indication that something is wrong with your python installation. I am not saying that this is the only problem or the cause of the others, but this should not happen in a normal