On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Daniel CLEMENT <dcleme...@laposte.net> wrote: > Le mercredi 26 mars 2014 à 15:00 -0700, James A.R. Koehler a écrit : >> I have installed Lyx (several times!) on two Mint16 machines; one a >> 32-bit version and the other 64-bit. Mint is based on Ubuntu 13. In >> both cases, when installing either from a download from the Lyx site or >> via the .deb repository, it installs without any classes or layouts; >> i.e., it is not very useful. > > I have a brand new live USB (persistent) install of LM16, where LyX is > installed from Synaptic. I was able to observe but partly what you > describe. > > 1. There are indeed some classes missing, but on top of the list under > Document > Parameters there's a good 20+ choice of basic document > classes. Aren't the ones you miss in texlive-formats-extra or > texlive-publishers? > OK, this sounds more like LaTeX classes are missing (and NOT LyX layout files). Which means that re-installing LyX is of no consequence. You should perform a full installation of TeX Live. You may as well start by installing 'texlive-full', but beware that this is likely to be a monstrous download.
Liviu >> If I try to read the User Manual, it comes >> up with an error saying it cannot find the appropriate class to display >> the data. Catch 22. > > 2. I had different errors. First it complained about enumitem.sty not > found. This could be solved by installing texlive-latex-extra (not here > by default). Still, there's another error: "No information to convert > files from eps format to pdf format. Define a converter under > preferences". > >> In previous installations on earlier distributions of Linux in other >> years, the installation was seamless and problem free. Help! > > Granted, I never had to do that under any other LyX install. > > FWIW, under Linux Mint Debian, there's no such problems. > >> >> Jim >> > > -- > Daniel CLEMENT -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
