On 10/23/2014 04:02 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
Am 23.10.2014 um 09:27 schrieb Hugo Hinterberger <hugo.hinterber...@gmx.net>:
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:28:14 +0200, Hal Kierstead <hal.kierst...@me.com> wrote:
I am trying to use LyX 2.1.2 with Yosemite, but review does not work for me. I
cannot even preview the help manuals. I can export them to LaTex and then
compile them with LaTex. This must be some path problem, but I do not know how
to deal with it. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi,
I noticed that LyX did not run "Reconfigure" on Yosemite, at least not in the
directory that LyX expects it to be run.
Here are the steps that I took to get LyX 2.1.2 on Yosemite to compile a
document (fresh OS X installation):
1. Install MacTex # triggered installation of xcode command line tools
2. Install LyX # run once
2.1. Open Terminal
2.2. cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-2.1/ # user directory as shown in
"About LyX"
2.3. Run python /Applications/LyX.app/Content/Resources/configure.py # path
might be incorrect, I an not at my Mac at the moment, do a manual reconfigure,
must be in the correct directory (user directory)
3. Run LyX
4. Open document
5. Preview document
Regarding the "convert" utility, this is actually imagemagick (possibly
graphicsmagick) and I had to (following the recommended procedure) install MacPorts
first, and it took me a whole night to get imagemagick to install through MacPorts (a lot
of dependencies).
I think you now have convert twice:
one in /opt/local/bin (from MacPorts) and another in /usr/local/bin (from
MacTeX).
Because of the broken environment passing LyX cannot extend the system path for
it's child processes.
The path list in preferences is effectively ignored. Perhaps it works for you
because of MacPorts had
added /opt/local/bin to the system path?
Most people outside of Apple rate this as a serious bug of Yosemite.
See here for an excellent analysis:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/208181/why-did-my-tex-related-gui-program-stop-working-in-mac-os-x-yosemite
At the moment there is no good solution at hand, sorry.
...except to run LyX itself from a terminal, right?
Richard
