Re: Install problem
At 6:25 AM +0100 9/8/05, Roy Schestowitz wrote: _/ On Wed 07 Sep 2005 20:27:03 BST, [Bennett Helm] wrote : \_ On Sep 7, 2005, at 1:21 PM, Rob Managan wrote: I got a new computer and installed LyX and TeTeX on it as described (at least I think I did) I used the i-installer for TeX and the related packages and the 1.3.6 .dmg for LyX. I am running OSX 10.3.9. When I open an old LyX document I get a dialog that says: Textclass error The document uses a missing TeX class article LyX will not be able to produce output. Any clue as to what I messed up? ... I suggest that you try to change the class of the document under Layout - Document. Do you still get the same error? To isolate the source of the error, it would be valuable to try this. I have confirmed that LyX can not find any document class. If I even create a new file from a template it lists the templates and I can chose one but when it opens the windows I get the same message. Are you sure teTeX is installed correctly? (Can you compile documents with article class from TeXShop, for example?) Is LyX's PATH prefix set correctly? (LyX Preferences Paths PATH Prefix -- should be set to: /usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin- current:/usr/X11R6/bin:/sw/bin:/opt/local/teTeX/bin If that's all ok, try running Edit Reconfigure, quitting LyX, and relaunching. Does that work? Bennett When I bring up the Preferences the PATH prefix box was empty. So I suspect that something went awry in the install procedure. Do you need to get TeX installed and then log out and relogin to make sure it can be found or anything like that?? And several Reconfigure, Quit, and Launches did not help so I think there must be another problem. At 3:33 PM -0400 9/7/05, Bennett Helm wrote: Try running Edit Reconfigure again (quitting LyX and relaunching) ... and try it twice to see if that makes a difference. If not, try running the configure command manually: from a Terminal session, cd into LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx. Once there, type ./configure (without quotes) to run it. What is the output? When I try this the problem becomes evident. It seems that the teTeX/bin path is not on my Path and none of the executables can be found. [mangrove:~] managan% cd Documents/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx/ [mangrove:Contents/Resources/lyx] managan% ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for latex... no +checking for latex2e... no checking for a LaTeX - LyX converter... (reLyX) +checking for reLyX... no ... Should I add the relevant paths to a .cshrc type file or does that not make it available to LyX since it is a gui app? There is a .Mac_environment.plist type file as I recall that would make the paths available to GUI apps. Is that the one I need? So in some way the install process seems broken or lacks a suitable warning about this -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Rob Managan email managan at llnl.gov LLNL phone: 925-423-0903 P.O. Box 808, L-095 FAX: 925-422-3389 Livermore, CA 94551-0808
Re: Install problem
At 8:15 AM -0700 9/8/05, Rob Managan wrote: When I try this the problem becomes evident. It seems that the teTeX/bin path is not on my Path and none of the executables can be found. [mangrove:~] managan% cd Documents/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx/ [mangrove:Contents/Resources/lyx] managan% ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for latex... no +checking for latex2e... no checking for a LaTeX - LyX converter... (reLyX) +checking for reLyX... no ... Should I add the relevant paths to a .cshrc type file or does that not make it available to LyX since it is a gui app? There is a .Mac_environment.plist type file as I recall that would make the paths available to GUI apps. Is that the one I need? So adding the directory with all the TeX binaries to my .cshrc path and one more Reconfigure gets rid of the warning. I suspect there may be other issues with my installation but I will try a reinstall of LyX if I have trouble now that the TeX end of things is working from the command line. -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Rob Managan email managan at llnl.gov LLNL phone: 925-423-0903 P.O. Box 808, L-095 FAX: 925-422-3389 Livermore, CA 94551-0808
Re: Install problem
At 6:25 AM +0100 9/8/05, Roy Schestowitz wrote: _/ On Wed 07 Sep 2005 20:27:03 BST, [Bennett Helm] wrote : \_ On Sep 7, 2005, at 1:21 PM, Rob Managan wrote: I got a new computer and installed LyX and TeTeX on it as described (at least I think I did) I used the i-installer for TeX and the related packages and the 1.3.6 .dmg for LyX. I am running OSX 10.3.9. When I open an old LyX document I get a dialog that says: Textclass error The document uses a missing TeX class article LyX will not be able to produce output. Any clue as to what I messed up? ... I suggest that you try to change the class of the document under Layout - Document. Do you still get the same error? To isolate the source of the error, it would be valuable to try this. I have confirmed that LyX can not find any document class. If I even create a new file from a template it lists the templates and I can chose one but when it opens the windows I get the same message. Are you sure teTeX is installed correctly? (Can you compile documents with article class from TeXShop, for example?) Is LyX's PATH prefix set correctly? (LyX Preferences Paths PATH Prefix -- should be set to: /usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin- current:/usr/X11R6/bin:/sw/bin:/opt/local/teTeX/bin If that's all ok, try running Edit Reconfigure, quitting LyX, and relaunching. Does that work? Bennett When I bring up the Preferences the PATH prefix box was empty. So I suspect that something went awry in the install procedure. Do you need to get TeX installed and then log out and relogin to make sure it can be found or anything like that?? And several Reconfigure, Quit, and Launches did not help so I think there must be another problem. At 3:33 PM -0400 9/7/05, Bennett Helm wrote: Try running Edit Reconfigure again (quitting LyX and relaunching) ... and try it twice to see if that makes a difference. If not, try running the configure command manually: from a Terminal session, cd into LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx. Once there, type ./configure (without quotes) to run it. What is the output? When I try this the problem becomes evident. It seems that the teTeX/bin path is not on my Path and none of the executables can be found. [mangrove:~] managan% cd Documents/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx/ [mangrove:Contents/Resources/lyx] managan% ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for latex... no +checking for latex2e... no checking for a LaTeX - LyX converter... (reLyX) +checking for reLyX... no ... Should I add the relevant paths to a .cshrc type file or does that not make it available to LyX since it is a gui app? There is a .Mac_environment.plist type file as I recall that would make the paths available to GUI apps. Is that the one I need? So in some way the install process seems broken or lacks a suitable warning about this -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Rob Managan email managan at llnl.gov LLNL phone: 925-423-0903 P.O. Box 808, L-095 FAX: 925-422-3389 Livermore, CA 94551-0808
Re: Install problem
At 8:15 AM -0700 9/8/05, Rob Managan wrote: When I try this the problem becomes evident. It seems that the teTeX/bin path is not on my Path and none of the executables can be found. [mangrove:~] managan% cd Documents/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx/ [mangrove:Contents/Resources/lyx] managan% ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for latex... no +checking for latex2e... no checking for a LaTeX - LyX converter... (reLyX) +checking for reLyX... no ... Should I add the relevant paths to a .cshrc type file or does that not make it available to LyX since it is a gui app? There is a .Mac_environment.plist type file as I recall that would make the paths available to GUI apps. Is that the one I need? So adding the directory with all the TeX binaries to my .cshrc path and one more Reconfigure gets rid of the warning. I suspect there may be other issues with my installation but I will try a reinstall of LyX if I have trouble now that the TeX end of things is working from the command line. -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Rob Managan email managan at llnl.gov LLNL phone: 925-423-0903 P.O. Box 808, L-095 FAX: 925-422-3389 Livermore, CA 94551-0808
Re: Install problem
At 6:25 AM +0100 9/8/05, Roy Schestowitz wrote: _/ On Wed 07 Sep 2005 20:27:03 BST, [Bennett Helm] wrote : \_ On Sep 7, 2005, at 1:21 PM, Rob Managan wrote: I got a new computer and installed LyX and TeTeX on it as described (at least I think I did) I used the i-installer for TeX and the related packages and the 1.3.6 .dmg for LyX. I am running OSX 10.3.9. When I open an old LyX document I get a dialog that says: Textclass error The document uses a missing TeX class article LyX will not be able to produce output. Any clue as to what I messed up? ... I suggest that you try to change the class of the document under Layout -> Document. Do you still get the same error? To isolate the source of the error, it would be valuable to try this. I have confirmed that LyX can not find any document class. If I even create a new file from a template it lists the templates and I can chose one but when it opens the windows I get the same message. Are you sure teTeX is installed correctly? (Can you compile documents with article class from TeXShop, for example?) Is LyX's PATH prefix set correctly? (LyX > Preferences > Paths > PATH Prefix -- should be set to: /usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin- current:/usr/X11R6/bin:/sw/bin:/opt/local/teTeX/bin If that's all ok, try running Edit > Reconfigure, quitting LyX, and relaunching. Does that work? Bennett When I bring up the Preferences the PATH prefix box was empty. So I suspect that something went awry in the install procedure. Do you need to get TeX installed and then log out and relogin to make sure it can be found or anything like that?? And several Reconfigure, Quit, and Launches did not help so I think there must be another problem. At 3:33 PM -0400 9/7/05, Bennett Helm wrote: Try running Edit > Reconfigure again (quitting LyX and relaunching) ... and try it twice to see if that makes a difference. If not, try running the configure command manually: from a Terminal session, cd into LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx. Once there, type "./configure" (without quotes) to run it. What is the output? When I try this the problem becomes evident. It seems that the teTeX/bin path is not on my Path and none of the executables can be found. [mangrove:~] managan% cd Documents/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx/ [mangrove:Contents/Resources/lyx] managan% ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for "latex"... no +checking for "latex2e"... no checking for a LaTeX -> LyX converter... (reLyX) +checking for "reLyX"... no ... Should I add the relevant paths to a .cshrc type file or does that not make it available to LyX since it is a gui app? There is a .Mac_environment.plist type file as I recall that would make the paths available to GUI apps. Is that the one I need? So in some way the install process seems broken or lacks a suitable warning about this -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Rob Managan email managan at llnl.gov LLNL phone: 925-423-0903 P.O. Box 808, L-095 FAX: 925-422-3389 Livermore, CA 94551-0808
Re: Install problem
At 8:15 AM -0700 9/8/05, Rob Managan wrote: When I try this the problem becomes evident. It seems that the teTeX/bin path is not on my Path and none of the executables can be found. [mangrove:~] managan% cd Documents/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx/ [mangrove:Contents/Resources/lyx] managan% ./configure checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e) +checking for "latex"... no +checking for "latex2e"... no checking for a LaTeX -> LyX converter... (reLyX) +checking for "reLyX"... no ... Should I add the relevant paths to a .cshrc type file or does that not make it available to LyX since it is a gui app? There is a .Mac_environment.plist type file as I recall that would make the paths available to GUI apps. Is that the one I need? So adding the directory with all the TeX binaries to my .cshrc path and one more Reconfigure gets rid of the warning. I suspect there may be other issues with my installation but I will try a reinstall of LyX if I have trouble now that the TeX end of things is working from the command line. -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Rob Managan email managan at llnl.gov LLNL phone: 925-423-0903 P.O. Box 808, L-095 FAX: 925-422-3389 Livermore, CA 94551-0808
Install problem
I got a new computer and installed LyX and TeTeX on it as described (at least I think I did) I used the i-installer for TeX and the related packages and the 1.3.6 .dmg for LyX. I am running OSX 10.3.9. When I open an old LyX document I get a dialog that says: Textclass error The document uses a missing TeX class article LyX will not be able to produce output. Any clue as to what I messed up? -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Rob Managan email managan at llnl.gov LLNL phone: 925-423-0903 P.O. Box 808, L-095 FAX: 925-422-3389 Livermore, CA 94551-0808
Install problem
I got a new computer and installed LyX and TeTeX on it as described (at least I think I did) I used the i-installer for TeX and the related packages and the 1.3.6 .dmg for LyX. I am running OSX 10.3.9. When I open an old LyX document I get a dialog that says: Textclass error The document uses a missing TeX class article LyX will not be able to produce output. Any clue as to what I messed up? -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Rob Managan email managan at llnl.gov LLNL phone: 925-423-0903 P.O. Box 808, L-095 FAX: 925-422-3389 Livermore, CA 94551-0808
Install problem
I got a new computer and installed LyX and TeTeX on it as described (at least I think I did) I used the i-installer for TeX and the related packages and the 1.3.6 .dmg for LyX. I am running OSX 10.3.9. When I open an old LyX document I get a dialog that says: Textclass error The document uses a missing TeX class article LyX will not be able to produce output. Any clue as to what I messed up? -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Rob Managan email managan at llnl.gov LLNL phone: 925-423-0903 P.O. Box 808, L-095 FAX: 925-422-3389 Livermore, CA 94551-0808
