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From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:03 AM
Subject: Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]
"The installer searches the Registry in various ways in order to find
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:23:01 -0800, Stephen Harris wrote:
> I don't want to generalize from your particular aptitude. I think maybe
> (conservatively) 3 in 100 Windows users realizes the value of adding the
> LyX helper apps to the Windows Path variable. Which is why I wrote:
[snip very long repl
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From: "Enrico Forestieri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 3:57 AM
Subject: Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:54:21 -0800, Ste
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:54:21 -0800, Stephen Harris wrote:
> No, he did not. I'll get back to that. I appreciate your calm response.
>
> This is what Angus initially said to me:
>
> "The installer searches the Registry in various ways in order to find the
> whereabouts of sh.exe, gswinc.exe, pyth
Stephen Harris wrote:
> No, he did not. I'll get back to that. I appreciate your calm response.
;-)
> This is what Angus initially said to me:
>
> "The installer searches the Registry in various ways in order to find the
> whereabouts of sh.exe, gswinc.exe, python.exe, etc. It's blindingly
> obv
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From: "Enrico Forestieri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]
Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I wish I were
- Original Message -
From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]
Think of both the registry and the PATH environment variable as simply
*hint
Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> I wish I were smarter so that it would be blindingly obvious to me too.
> I envision four(5) scenarios:
I see that Angus already answered your questions.
I think that your doubts are due to a misconception of the PATH.
Please, have a look here http:
Stephen Harris wrote:
>> The installer searches the Registry in various ways in order to find the
>> whereabouts of sh.exe, gswinc.exe, python.exe, etc. It's blindingly
>> obvious that it should first ascertain whether these things are already
>> in the PATH. Never mind ;-)
By which I meant that I
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From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]
Stephen Harris wrote:
On my computer, the contents of \path_prefix are a
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From: "Enrico Forestieri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Formally, that's t
Stephen Harris wrote:
> On my computer, the contents of \path_prefix are a subset of the
> Windows PATH environment variable because I've manually added
> them. Checking the contents of PATH and comparing it to LyX's
> \path_prefix to determine accuracy seems awfully smart, like AI.
The installer
Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Formally, that's the PATH environment variable. To be honest, I don't
>> think that I check the contents of this variable when generating the
>> contents of \path_prefix. Clearly I should have
>
> Angus, you did a wonderfu
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From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 4:54 AM
Subject: Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]
Stephen Harris wrote:
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From: "Enrico For
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Formally, that's the PATH environment variable. To be honest, I don't think
> that I check the contents of this variable when generating the contents of
> \path_prefix. Clearly I should have
Angus, you did a wonderful job. I saw people which started us
Stephen Harris wrote:
>
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> From: "Enrico Forestieri"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:
> Sent: Monday,
> December 12, 2005 5:17 PM Subject: Re: There's Something About
> Textclass.lst [WinXP, in
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From: "Enrico Forestieri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Cc:
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]
because I think it is very likely that if
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From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]
Angus Leeming wrote:
Enrico Forestieri wrote:
Angus, what about a
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:42:19 -0800, Stephen Harris wrote:
>
> This particular subject was about the Uwe .51 complete installer.
> The OP had already tried "sh.exe configure" and it didn't work.
> The OP does not have admin rights and that most likely is the
> problem.
I must have missed this bit.
Angus Leeming wrote:
Enrico Forestieri wrote:
Angus, what about a configure.bat script?
Y'know, sometimes the simplest ideas are the best ;-)
However, don't we need admin privileges to generate files in C:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx ?
Not positive, but I don't think so. Whomsoever
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> However, don't we need admin privileges to generate files in C:\Program
> Files\LyX\Resources\lyx ?
>
I really don't know. My win2k came preinstalled on a FAT32 partition, so
I don't need privileges to write everywhere on disk, and I never used Windo
- Original Message -
From: "Enrico Forestieri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
From an MSYS terminal w
Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> Angus, what about a configure.bat script?
Y'know, sometimes the simplest ideas are the best ;-)
However, don't we need admin privileges to generate files in C:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx ?
--
Angus
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> From an MSYS terminal window (maybe even a cmd.exe one for all I know):
>
> cd "C:/Program Files/LyX/Resources/lyx"
> /sh.exe configure
>
> That will generate the missing files.
Angus, what about a configure.bat script?
Perhaps it can also solve th
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
> LyXWin137
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From: "Tariq Kamal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "LyX Users Mailing List"
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 11:28 PM
Subject: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]
Hello!
Everything so far has failed, and I
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 i
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