Unable to Launch LYX | Missing Platex.INI

evana · Post by **evana** » Tue Apr 11, 2023 8:25 pm

I have installed MikTeX and then installed latest version of LyX (LyX-237-Installer-1-x64.exe).

When trying to launch the LyX.exe from C:\Program Files\LyX 2.3\bin\LyX.exe, receiving Prompt to install Platex.INI.

Could you check and let me know if I am missing something here?

Thanks,
Pranitha

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Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Tue Apr 11, 2023 10:04 pm

Hi Evana,

welcome to the forum!

Did you install a complete MikTeX? The screenshot says that packages are missing, you can install them with the MikTeX package manager.

Stefan

evana · Post by **evana** » Wed Apr 12, 2023 1:46 pm

yes, complete MikTeX package is installed when tested the installation of LyX. Could you help me on creating a local repository for LyX, it says to use MikTeX setup utility, https://miktex.org/howto/local-repository

Will this approach work by giving same path as MikTeX

- miktexsetup --verbose --local-package-repository=/PATH/TO/REPOSITORY --package-set=complete download

evana · Post by **evana** » Wed Apr 12, 2023 1:47 pm

To give more context, I received the below URL when clicked on "how to create local repository'

evana · Post by **evana** » Fri Jun 09, 2023 2:19 pm

Hi Team,

Could you check the below and update here?

Thanks,
Pranitha

evana · Post by **evana** » Thu Jul 06, 2023 9:25 am

Hi Team,

We are trying to install Miktex and Lyx firm wide via command line approach as below,

MikTex:
miktexsetup_standalone.exe --quiet --shared=yes --local-package-repository=\"C:\\Windows\\Temp\\MiKTeX22.10\" --package-set=basic install"

LYX:
LyX-237-Installer-1-x64.exe /S

We have set dependency of Miktex for LYX in SCCM. So, when I initiate the installation of LYX, the package took care of installing MikTex and LYX,

However, receiving the error after launching the LYX app, attached the screenshot.

We don't have Platex package in our firm, could you let us know if we can copy Platex file separately in to Miktex package. how can we proceed here?

Thanks,
Pranitha

evana · Post by **evana** » Thu Jul 06, 2023 9:34 am

Adding more to the below comment,

Is there a command line approach for adding or downloading .ini file?

Thanks,
Pranitha

evana · Post by **evana** » Thu Jul 06, 2023 2:14 pm

We have noticed that , local repository is not getting created when installing MikTex,

could you check if the below command would do the job of creating the local repo. We are trying to create it in temp folder.

miktexsetup_standalone.exe --quiet --shared=yes --local-package-repository=\"C:\\Windows\\Temp\\MiKTeX22.10\" --package-set=basic install"

Thanks,
Pranitha

evana · Post by **evana** » Fri Jul 14, 2023 8:39 am

Following up here for an update?

Thanks,
Pranitha

evana · Post by **evana** » Tue Jul 18, 2023 9:14 am

Hi team,

Following up for an update here.

Thanks,
Pranitha

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