Am 11.11.2013 um 10:03 schrieb Philipp Gröne <philipp.gro...@googlemail.com>:
> Hi! > > more serious: > if I try to export a pdf output from my document, I get > > ! Package babel Error: Unknow option `ngerman'. Either you misspelled it > (babel) or the language definition file ngerman.ldf was not > found. > > and no output. > > I use lyx 2.0.6-1+b1 and texlive 2013 under Debian > > I had the same error while compiling documents, I solved it by manually > deleting all lines from the document in question which contained "/ngerman". > (By opening them in a text editor and using the search feature) This worked > like a charm. > > This can be due to sheer luck, it is possible that this opens a can of worms > in other documents. > I advice to make backups before editing the source document manually. > > (By the way, just commenting it out by adding a # to the beginning of the > line in question did not work.) > > If you want to install more packages instead try either "texlive-lang-german" > or "texlive-lang-all". I guess it's the same problem others mentioned already on this list: It looks like the package dependencies of "modern" Linux systems doesn't include the language packages of TeX-Live anymore. Please check if you have the needed language packs of TeX-Live installed. Editing the LyX files manually seems like a very fragile option to solve this. Stephan