As we've said, you must consult the log, which is what the error
message has told you to do. There are many things that could be
wrong, and we would merely be guessing without seeing the log.
LyX provides a way for you to look at the error log with LyX. (From
the Document menu, select “LaTeX Log”.) Alternately, you can find the
file (which will have the extension “log” and examine it with a
text-viewer or text-editor.
If you cannot understand the log file, then post it here or in a forum
specific to pdflatex.
On 02/15/2018 09:13 PM, elloh van wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam,
I have just installed LyX version 2.2.3 on my laptop but when I wanted
to see my output in other formats, i. e., View[PDF(pdflatex)], the
pdflatex gives the following error message:
"LyX: LaTeX failed
the external program pdflatex finished with an error.
It is recommended you fix the cause of external progam's error (check
the logs)".
Please what should I do to overcome the problem ?
Hope to hearing from you soon.
Thank you
With kind regards
Van Wellington Elloh
Department of Physics,
University of Petroleum
and Energy Studies (UPES),
Dehradun, India.
Mobile: +91 976 086 2091
e-mail: ell...@yahoo.com
