Herbert Voss wrote: > Nelson Hogg wrote: > >> I am having trouble with Lyx not finding installed bibtex files. I >> have defined the environment variable TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf and run >> texhash > > >> as superuser and the output from that in ls-R seems to make sense. But >> when I run View->Tex Information there is none reported. Rescanning >> produces nothing and lyx will only use .bst and .bib files that are >> located in the working directory. My setup is lyx 1.2.0 on Mandrake >> 8.2 (kde3.0.1). > > > > "kpsepath bib" should show something like: > voss@maria:~> kpsepath bib > .:/home/voss/texmf/bibtex/bib//:!!/usr/local/share/texmf/bibtex/bib// > :!!/var/lib/texmf/bibtex/bib//:!!/usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bib// > :/home/voss/texmf/bibtex///:!!/usr/local/share/texmf/bibtex/// > :!!/var/lib/texmf/bibtex///:!!/usr/share/texmf/bibtex/// > > if not, then have a look at your config file, often located > in /etc/texmf/texmf.cfg > > HErbert >
This is what it says: [root@abys ngh]# kpsepath bib .:/usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bib//:/usr/share/texmf/bibtex/// I cannot find a texmf.cfg file anywhere and there is no /etc/texmf directory. How is it created?
