Thanks Jacob,
I am also using Mint 16 Petra but with MATE. On my main machine,
which is the 64-bit version of Mint16, I installed all the texlive
packages (I have a fairly high-speed link and lots of HD space), I
opened Lyx, ran Tools > Reconfigure, closed Lyx and reopened it. I then
opened a fairly large document I'd created a few years ago using the
then current version of Lyx and it seemed to open in the editor nicely.
When I tried to view the document in dvi, I got an error message saying
"Latex error: File 'wrapfig.sty not found".
I notice that all the sub-directories under the .lyx directory my
home directory are still all empty. Surely this is not normal?
Jim
On 14-04-01 10:39 AM, Jacob Bishop wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 4:00 PM, James A.R. Koehler
<jim.koeh...@usask.ca <mailto:jim.koeh...@usask.ca>> wrote:
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. 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.
In previous installations on earlier distributions of Linux in
other years, the installation was seamless and problem free. Help!
Jim
Hi Jim,
I don't think I've been able to follow this discussion perfectly, but
I may still be able to help. My main machine (on which I am typing
right now) is running 64-bit Linux Mint Cinnamon 16 (Petra). I am not
using any ppa's, so I believe my version of LyX is from the regular
repo's. It's version 2.0.6. I have no trouble viewing and compiling
the user's manual. Unless space is particularly tight on your machine
(or you have slow network access), I would follow Liviu's suggestion
of installing a full version of texlive. I just checked, by running
$dpkg --list | grep "texlive" to see what packages I have installed,
and I can say that my installation certainly isn't minimal (see the
attached text file for the output from my machine using that command),
but it works great. After installing any new packages, you should open
LyX, and run Tools->Reconfigure as Pavel suggested. Then, close LyX,
re-open it, and see what you get.
How does that work for you?
Jacob
