On Wednesday, 16 Sep 2015 12:31 PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > On 09/16/2015 10:18 AM, Will Parsons wrote: >> I had a working installation of LyX under FreeBSD, but at some point >> fairly recently (I'm not sure the exact circumstances), my LyX >> installation can't produce PDF files anymore because (almost) all >> document classes are marked unavailable. Googling has been no help - >> the common recommendations of running (from LyX) "Tools => >> Reconfigure" and (from the command line) "fmtutil-sys --all" have not >> solved the problem. >> >> The document that I am currently working on uses the "article" class, >> and under /usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base there is a file >> "article.cls" (among other *.cls files). I'm at a loss. Can anyone >> shed light on what might be wrong? >> >> (I've already posted this to a FreeBSD mailing list without success so >> far.) > > Try running "kspewhich article.cls" first. Is it found?
% kspewhich article.cls kspewhich: Command not found. > Another possibility is some kind of python misconfiguration. Try this: > mkdir /tmp/lyx > cd /tmp/lyx > python /usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py > or whatever the right path is for you. This basically treats /tmp/lyx as > a LyX user directory and dumps appropriate files there. You may just see > various error messages, in which case you can report them. If not, post > the resulting configure.log file. OK - I put it at pastebin: http://pastebin.com/RkyZ0nX6 -- Will
