On 2010-03-22, Tim Wescott wrote: > I'm working hard at being a brand-new user, but I'm still a > user-wannabe, because things ain't working! I'm using Ubuntu 9.10, > brand shiny new installation of Lyx. I try to create a document from a > template (any template, but I'll use latex8 as an example)
Really *any*?? Just to sort out principal failure: Could you test with a new standard document (Ctrl-N), type a simple sentence and view the PDF? > and I get the following: > The layout file requested by this document, latex8.layout, is not > usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required > by it is not available. See the Customization documentation for more > information. LyX will not be able to produce output. This indicates that a latex document-class is missing. > I tried reconfigure -- no luck. > I tried running texhash -- no luck. > I verified that /usr/share/lyx/layouts is there, and that it has > latex8.layout (and all the others that didn't work) in it. You will need to install more of texlive than just the basics (which are auto-installed as a LyX dependency). In your example, you should look for latex8.cls or latex8.sty. If it is not on your system, try e.g. `apt-file find latex8.cls`` to see which package you need to install. (Actually, I did not find a package that ships latex8 for Debian, so this might even be a "download from CTAN and install 'by hand'" documentclass, however, you might e.g. find the seminar class in texlive-latex-recommended.) Günter
