On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Blaine Erickson <erick...@piercingsuit.com> wrote: > Greetings all, > > I am brand-new to LyX (and TeX, et al.), so please forgive me if there is a > simple solution. > > First, my system: iMac with 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X v. 10.4.11. > > I installed TeXShop (v. 2.18-svn), which includes the MacTeX-2008 > distribution. After struggling with > LaTeX with a while, I found out about LyX, and decided to give it a try. I > downloaded LyX 1.6.1 and > installed it. When I open the program, I get this error message: > > "Unable to determine the system directory having searched > /Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/ > Use the '-sysdir' command line parameter > or set the environment variable > LYX_DIR_16x to the LyX system directory > containing the file `chkconfig.ltx'. > > Could someone be so kind as to decipher this for me, and tell me what to do?
This says that LyX is looking for the file, chkconfig.ltx, in /Applications/LyX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources (which is where it should be). That file is a script that checks on your LaTeX installation so that LyX knows what packages, etc. you have installed. It gets run automatically the first time you launch LyX. The implication is that you put LyX.app in a LyX folder inside your Applications folder, right? If so, it looks as though your copy of LyX.app is incomplete or corrupted. I'd suggest deleting it and downloading again. Bennett
