On Thursday, 17 Sep 2015 10:06 AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > On 09/16/2015 02:49 PM, Will Parsons wrote: >> On Wednesday, 16 Sep 2015 12:31 PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: >>> On 09/16/2015 10:18 AM, Will Parsons wrote: >>>> I had a working installation of LyX under FreeBSD, but at some point >>>> fairly recently (I'm not sure the exact circumstances), my LyX >>>> installation can't produce PDF files anymore because (almost) all >>>> document classes are marked unavailable. Googling has been no help - >>>> the common recommendations of running (from LyX) "Tools => >>>> Reconfigure" and (from the command line) "fmtutil-sys --all" have not >>>> solved the problem. >>>> >>>> The document that I am currently working on uses the "article" class, >>>> and under /usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base there is a file >>>> "article.cls" (among other *.cls files). I'm at a loss. Can anyone >>>> shed light on what might be wrong? >>>> >>>> (I've already posted this to a FreeBSD mailing list without success so >>>> far.) >>> Try running "kspewhich article.cls" first. Is it found? >> % kspewhich article.cls >> kspewhich: Command not found. > > Sorry, as I said in a different message, typo: try "kpsewhich article.cls". > >>> Another possibility is some kind of python misconfiguration. Try this: >>> mkdir /tmp/lyx >>> cd /tmp/lyx >>> python /usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py >>> or whatever the right path is for you. This basically treats /tmp/lyx as >>> a LyX user directory and dumps appropriate files there. You may just see >>> various error messages, in which case you can report them. If not, post >>> the resulting configure.log file. >> OK - I put it at pastebin: >> >> http://pastebin.com/RkyZ0nX6 > > The script seems to be running correctly, and it's finding a lot of > things, including some docbook classes, but it's not finding any of your > LaTeX classes or packages. So try to command above, which will tell us > whether the packages can be found from the command line.
No: % kpsewhich article.cls % echo $? 1 -- Will
