2.4 alpha2 failing on windows 10

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 2/9/21 12:14 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
>
> I've twice downloaded the 64 bit alpha2 installer for windows and
> installed it. However when I try to open a document in it I get a
> series of errors starting with unable to find the article layout, then
> unable to read cite engine basic, then failures of both lyx2lyx and
> tex2lyx scripts. Trying to reconfigure also fails. When I look at Help
> > About LyX I see
>
> Version 2.4.0dev (Monday, 28 December 2020)
>
> Is this right? I've reverted to alpha1 which I see has the same
> version date:
>
> Version 2.4.0-alpha1 (Monday, 28 December 2020)
>
I didn't update the version date. I should have.

The errors sound like python errors. Can you run from a terminal?

Riki