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LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.3
The installer installs a full working LaTeX-environment on yours Windows system that consists in detail of:
The installer analyzes your system and only installs missing programs from the list above. For a full working MiKTeX-distribution an open Internet connection is needed while LyX is installed.
Note that Windows 95,98, and ME are not supported!
There are three installer variants available:
- complete
- contains all programs listed above, recognizes hard disk-installed LaTeX-distributions MiKTeX, ProTeXt, and TeXLive
- small
- same functionality as the complete version but doesn't contain MiKTeX (to reduce the download size)
It provides an option to use LyX together with a LaTeX-distribution from a network drive or a live-CD/DVD or not to use LaTeX.
This option gives you the possibility to have more than one LaTeX-distributions installed and to choose which one should be used by LyX.
- update
- With this installer it is no longer needed to uninstall a previous LyX version before the installing the new one.
The actual version updates existing LyX 1.6.2 installations to LyX 1.6.3.
To use this installer version, LyX 1.6.2 must have been installed using also LyXWinInstaller.
Download
You can download the installer from the installer
project page
and
ftp.lyx.org (filenames LyX-163-4-19-AltInstaller-xxx.exe)
Please also read the corresponding Readme files before using the installer. If you have problems, please mail them to the lyx-users list.
Instant Preview
The installer supports Instant Preview. Look here to learn more about it.
BibTeX
Have a look at this page to learn more about BibTeX.
Miscellaneous
§ Comparison between the standard LyX-installer and LyXWinInstaller (alternative installer)
LyXWinInstaller shouldn't be in competition to the official installer. It
is intended to fully configure MiKTeX and the other third-party programs
needed by LyX and to build in some useful features that might not go
into the official installer.
LyXWinInstaller offers you:
- Update installer to update existing LyX installations
- Automatic installation of missing LaTeX-packages when you have an open
Internet connection. All packages needed by LyX are automatically
downloaded when LyX is started/configured the first time. If you later
use LaTeX-packages in your documents that aren't already installed
they will automatically be installed when you view/export your
LyX-file.
- ImageMagick, the program used by LyX for all sorts of images, and
Ghostscript which is needed to handle PDF and Postscript are bundled
together with the installer. This assures that you are using the
latest stable version especially of ImageMagick which is released very
often (and often with bugs).
- The installer automatically downloads and installs Aspell dictionaries
for English, for the language set in your Windows, and for LyX's menu
language that you have chosen in the installer. You are prompted to
install more dictionaries if you like.
(4 different Internet locations are used to assure that the dictionaries
are at any time available.)
- The installer asks you to update MiKTeX also if you just have it
installed together with LyX. This assures that you have the latest
version and can benefit from the latest LaTeX-package updates and
bug fixes. The reason that updating MiKTeX should also be done for new
installations is that the MiKTeX-bundle, that is included in
the installer, is only provided one time per one or two months while
bug fixes/updates of LaTeX-packages are normally released every week.
- When vector-graphic editing program Inkscape is installed on your
system, the installer configures LyX so that Inkscape will be used to
handle SVG-images you included to your LyX-documents.
- The installer also installs the LaTeX-class files that comes with LyX to MiKTeX.
This are the classes "broadway", "hollywood", and "revtex" and the style
files "lyxskak" and "lyxchess". When LyX is uninstalled these files will also be
uninstalled.
- The installer doesn't rename the lyx.exe. LyX's Start menu entry starts LyX via the
LyXLauncher.exe that starts lyx.exe but hides LyX's console window.
To start LyX with seeing the console window, start the lyx.exe directly.
- The uninstaller allows you to uninstall MiKTeX and Aspell together
with LyX.
Windows, Installation
