Re: [MiKTeX] MikteX 2.9 Installer fails

[Tahir H. <t.a...@gm...>]

Hi Ulrike

Thank you for your prompt replies.  I can confirm that it is an issue
with LyX because I downloaded the newest installer and it worked!

However, I must note that this installation bug should be fixed or at
least ignored (but logged) because it will confuse people to flag the
installation as having failed.  Most people in my situation would
naturally blame MikTeX instead of LyX because MikTeX is SAYING that it
has failed to install properly.

Secondly I noticed that there is no uninstaller...

Best Regards,
Tahir Hassan

On 7 December 2010 14:55, Ulrike Fischer <li...@ni...> wrote:
> Am Tue, 7 Dec 2010 14:26:57 +0000 schrieb Tahir Hassan:
>
>> That it was merely one file which failed to copy across, was my first
>> impression too, but then I tried using LyX (which needs MikteX
>> installed), and it came up with the following error:
>>
>> === START OF ERROR MESSAGE ===
>>
>> Lyx: Document class not available
>>
>> The layout file requested by this document, article.layout, is not
>> usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required
>> by it is not available.  See the Customization documentation for more
>> information.  LyX will not be able to produce output.
>>
>> === END OF ERROR MESSAGE ===
>>
>> After this I thought that LyX probably has the wrong configuration but
>> then when I searched for "article.layout" on my computer, and I only
>> found article.layout in a subdirectory of the LyX Program Files
>> Folder, but I am sure that this should also exist in the LaTeX
>> installation.
>>
>> Other than article.layout, it also complained about not finding book.layout.
>>
>> Can you please confirm that the MikTeX folder should not contain
>> article.layout anywhere within it (inc. subdirectories)?
>
> There is no article.layout in a miktex folder. Try if you can start
> from your start menu, miktex -> settings, YAP, miktex -> browse
> packages (install a package to test it) and texworks. Try to compile
> a small document in texworks, e.g.
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> Hello
> \end{document}
>
> When all this works miktex is fine and your problem is with lyx.
>
>
>> Because it stopped after not being able to copy a URL file, did it stop any
>> further, essential files from being installed?
>
> I doubt it. Setting the lnk is in general done at the end.
>
>
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> Ulrike Fischer
>
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