At 6:25 AM +0100 9/8/05, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
_____/ On Wed 07 Sep 2005 20:27:03 BST, [Bennett Helm] wrote : \_____
On Sep 7, 2005, at 1:21 PM, Rob Managan wrote:
I got a new computer and installed LyX and TeTeX on it as
described (at least I think I did) I used the i-installer for TeX
and the related packages and the 1.3.6 .dmg for LyX. I am running
OSX 10.3.9.
When I open an old LyX document I get a dialog that says:
Textclass error
The document uses a missing TeX class article
LyX will not be able to produce output.
Any clue as to what I messed up?
...
I suggest that you try to change the class of the document under Layout ->
Document. Do you still get the same error? To isolate the source of the error,
it would be valuable to try this.
I have confirmed that LyX can not find any document class. If I even
create a new file from a template it lists the templates and I can
chose one but when it opens the windows I get the same message.
Are you sure teTeX is installed correctly? (Can you compile
documents with article class from TeXShop, for example?)
Is LyX's PATH prefix set correctly? (LyX > Preferences > Paths >
PATH Prefix -- should be set to:
/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-
current:/usr/X11R6/bin:/sw/bin:/opt/local/teTeX/bin
If that's all ok, try running Edit > Reconfigure, quitting LyX, and
relaunching. Does that work?
Bennett
When I bring up the Preferences the PATH prefix box was empty. So I
suspect that something went awry in the install procedure. Do you
need to get TeX installed and then log out and relogin to make sure
it can be found or anything like that??
And several Reconfigure, Quit, and Launches did not help so I think
there must be another problem.
At 3:33 PM -0400 9/7/05, Bennett Helm wrote:
Try running Edit > Reconfigure again (quitting LyX and relaunching)
... and try it twice to see if that makes a difference. If not, try
running the configure command manually: from a Terminal session, cd
into LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx. Once there, type "./configure"
(without quotes) to run it. What is the output?
When I try this the problem becomes evident. It seems that the
teTeX/bin path is not on my Path and none of the executables can be
found.
[mangrove:~] managan% cd Documents/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx/
[mangrove:Contents/Resources/lyx] managan% ./configure
checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e)
+checking for "latex"... no
+checking for "latex2e"... no
checking for a LaTeX -> LyX converter... (reLyX)
+checking for "reLyX"... no
...
Should I add the relevant paths to a .cshrc type file or does that
not make it available to LyX since it is a gui app? There is a
.Mac_environment.plist type file as I recall that would make the
paths available to GUI apps. Is that the one I need?
So in some way the install process seems broken or lacks a suitable
warning about this
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