On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Richard Heck wrote:
Probably none of these are in the paths TeX is searching. You'll need to put it in one of those directories and then run texhash. Run e.g. "kpsewhich article.cls" to see where that one lives, and put svmono.cls in a similar location.
Richard, D'oh! I forgot that in the interval since I wrote my book I migrated from tetex to TeXLive. Sigh. However, copying it to /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/, reconfiguring lyx, and restarting the application did not resolve the error. I'll read the latest users guide and see what it tells me. Thanks, Rich