On 23 May 2015, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Anthony Campbell <ac <at> acampbell.uk> writes: > > > > > ~/.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. > > I don't know anything about the FreeBSD implementation. One other possible > thing to try: you could run the (Python) configuration script in a terminal > and see if anything useful jumps out. The script is likely at > /usr/share/lyx/configure.py (that's where I find it on Linux Mint). > > Could it be an issue with the version of Python running the script? I know > that 3.0 was not backward compatible with 2.x, but I don't know whether that > would affect the script, and if so whether it would result in a partial > failure or a spectacular implosion. > > Paul > >
Thank you!!! That was it. After the python script had run lyx started to process beamer files correctly and ~/.lyx/configure.log confirms that it had checked the classes as it should. I can't say I fully understand what happened but it certainly solved the problem. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell http://www.acampbell.uk