On 22 May 2015, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Anthony Campbell <ac <at> acampbell.uk> writes: > > > > > I am using lyx 2.1.3 on Freebsd. > > > > I want to edit some beamer files but lyx complains that it cannot find > > beamer.cls, amssymb.sty, hyperref.sty, pqf.sty, xcolor.sty, xxcolor.sty. > > > > In fact, all these are on the system. I've tried reconfiguring lyx, > > deleting HOME/.lyx, and reinstalling lyx, but the problem persists. Is > > there any way to make lyx find the files? > > With this sort of problem, the first step is typically to open a terminal > and run 'kpsewhich beamer.cls' and verify that the LaTeX search paths are > correctly configured. (IMHO, this is the most frequent culprit.) > > If the paths are okay, the next question is whether LyX sees them during > configuration. (I'm guessing not.) In ~/.lyx/configure.log, look for the > line "INFO: +checking for document class beamer" and see if you got a "no" > response (not found). > > If kpsewhich finds beamer.cls but LyX doesn't, make sure that LyX runs under > an account with read permission on the LaTeX directories. > > Paul
Thanks for your reply. kpsewich shows the paths correctly. Permissions are also OK. ~/.lyx/configure.log doesn't show that it has looked for ANY document classes, so I suppose that is the problem. Perhaps this is due to something wrong with the Freebsd implementation of lyx. It's not a disaster because I have other machines on which I can compile the beamer files but I'd like to find what is wrong. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell http://www.acampbell.uk
