Laurent Duperval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said something about: > On 5 Nov, Vern Kyle wrote: > > I am having significant difficulty getting through the tutorial on lyx. > > Specifically through portion 2.1.1 (My first lyx document.) Following > > the tutorial instructions: > > > > File->New > > Type: This is my first lyx document. > > File->Save As > > View->DVI > > > > I get this output: > > > > ampad:~/lyx.tutorial$ Converting from latex to DVI > > Running > > sh: first.tex: not found > > Looks to me like the tex or latex binary can't be found from withtin > LyX. I get the same thing because tex is installed in /usr/loca instead > of /usr and I used tcsh as a shell. The effect is that path settings set > in the .login file don't have any effect in the GUI environment. > Effectively, /us/local/bin doesn't appear in my path if I lauch LyX from > a menu button (such as the ones in the GNOME panel).
This would describe my situation as well. lyx et al is installed in /opt/latex/bin. The next question is what would I have do to change where lyx looks for the environment variables?
