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LyX for Windows

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

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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