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LyX for Windows

This group of pages contains information related to using LyX on Microsoft Windows systems.

This page is no more actively maintained, please see our official web instead

Supported Windows versions: Windows Vista, 7, 8.1 and 10.

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Downloads

Current stable version: 2.3.0

• Standard installer: LyX-230-Installer-005.exe (58 MB). This installer requires that LaTeX (MikTeX or TeXLive) are already installed.

Previous stable version: 2.2.3

• Standard installer: LyX-230-Installer-005.exe (53 MB). This installer requires that LaTeX (MikTeX or TeXLive) are already installed.

Versions for Cygwin

• If you use Cygwin on Windows, it may be more convenient to use the cygwin binary, since latex, python, etc. are all available from cygwin. You should download lyx-2.3.0-cygwin.tar.gz, un-tar it using Cygwin (not native) tools, and follow the instructions . See LyXOnCygwin for more information.

Mirrors

In case ftp.lyx.org is down, please try one of our ftp mirrors listed on main page.

More Information

• LyX Documentation (also included with LyX)
• Installing TeXLive for Windows (needed to export PDFs)
• Information about spell checker dictionaries
• Importing graphics from Windows applications
• Tips and Tweaks for running LyX on Windows
• Importing documents from Scientific Word/Scientific Workplace (SWP)
• How to set up LyX for Amharic
• How to set up LyX for Arabic
• How to set up LyX for Armenian
• How to set up LyX for Cyrillic languages
• How to set up LyX for Devanagari and Hindi
• How to set up LyX for Farsi
• How to set up LyX for French Canadian
• How to set up LyX for Georgian
• How to set up LyX for Hebrew
• How to set up LyX for Hungarian
• How to set up LyX for Japanese
• How to set up LyX for Khmer
• How to set up LyX for Latvian
• How to set up LyX for Lithuanian
• How to set up LyX for Mongolian
• How to set up LyX for Urdu
• How to set up LyX for Vietnamese

If you have questions, please post them to our users' mailing list.

LyX running on a Windows XP system

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