LyX 2.4 & MikTeX problem

[markhsalmon]

Do what do you recommend please? If not MikTek?

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> On 2 Jun 2024, at 01:14, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 6/1/24 15:34, Paul Rubin wrote:
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>> On 6/1/24 15:13, Bernt Lie via lyx-users wrote:
>>> I just installed LyX 2.4.0 on my computer, and it worked.
>>>  
>>> Then I thought I should update MikTeX... Last time was in April 2024; there were a number of updates.
>>>  
>>> At the end of the update, I was told that the MikTeX console needed to close down.
>>>  
>>> When I tried to re-start it, I get this error message:
>>> <image001.png>
>>>  
>>> I’m then trying to *re-install* MikTeX, but am told I cannot do that in the default directory, because “the directory is not empty”.
>>>  
>>> So I try to *un-install* MikTeX, but then get the same error message as above.
>>>  
>>> What on earth is going on?
>>>  
>>> -B
>> 
>> Looks like a known issue (https://github.com/MiKTeX/miktex/issues/1489) with, apparently, a known workaround (at least for some people).
> It's because of this sort of problem, which seems to arise constantly, that we stopped recommending MiKTeX.
> 
> Riki
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