LyX 2.3.5

[Bernt Lie]

  *   Can you recall what was shown on the installer for the longest part? This may be that configuring LyX (configure.py) tries to install a lot of MiKTeX packages if "always install missing packages" is allowed in the *user* preferences (MiKTeX console) on the Windows account, which has admin privileges. The second installment was faster because the packages were already installed and LyX has seen that.
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  *   Note that the beta installers are testing releases and not considered free of bugs. They especially should not be installed parallel to the official installer because having 2 same versions of LyX would cause problems in the registry, well that actually goes to having any 2 same versions of LyX installed.

The longest part of the installation was to let MikTeX add packages.

I don’t think I used a beta installer. I used “lyx-2.3.5.1-Installer-3.exe”

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From: Yu Jin <technikmagma at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 13:13
To: LyX Developers <lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org>; Bernt Lie <Bernt.Lie at usn.no>
Subject: Re: LyX 2.3.5

Am Mi., 10. Juni 2020 um 12:43 Uhr schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller <spitz at lyx.org<mailto:spitz at lyx.org>>:
Bringing this to devel (not sure Eugene is reading users).

Jürgen

Am Mittwoch, den 10.06.2020, 10:05 +0000 schrieb Bernt Lie:
> Hm… here is what I did:
> I first installed MikTeX to the default path that it suggested, and
> used my private path for LyX. No success.
> Next, I deleted LyX, and tried to re-install it to the default path.
Deleted? Did you run the uninstaller or just delete the installation folder?

> But the default path never showed up; no matter whether I deleted
> every file related to LyX, it still stuck to the original path that I
> had defined.
This info is saved in the registry. Properly uninstalling LyX should (and it does for me) delete it.

> I then entered “regedit”. I deleted every mention of LyX in various
> forms from “regedit”.
> Next, I tried to reinstall LyX. Now it suggested a default path. I
> installed LyX to this default path.
> Now, it seems to work.
>
> In summary: LyX doesn’t properly clean up the registry when I
> uninstall it.
>
> Another observation…
> Before I deleted the registry elements and installed LyX to my
> private directory, installation of LyX took some one hour or
> something.
> After I deleted elements from “regedit”, the installation took a
> couple of minutes.
Can you recall what was shown on the installer for the longest part? This may be that configuring LyX (configure.py) tries to install a lot of MiKTeX packages if "always install missing packages" is allowed in the *user* preferences (MiKTeX console) on the Windows account, which has admin privileges. The second installment was faster because the packages were already installed and LyX has seen that.

Note that the beta installers are testing releases and not considered free of bugs. They especially should not be installed parallel to the official installer because having 2 same versions of LyX would cause problems in the registry, well that actually goes to having any 2 same versions of LyX installed.

Eugene
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