Carole Womeldorf wrote:

> When I start up the examples: "Foils.lyx", "Literate.lyx", "aa.lyx",
> on start up I get the Alert:
> 
> "The document uses an unknown textclass "foils" ["literate-article", "aa"]
> Lyx will not be able to produce output correctly."
> 
> Is something missing from my setup?  The only "foil*" file I have found is
> "/usr/share/lyx/layouts/foils.layout."


the corresponding latex documentclass files are missing.
- start lyx from the commandline
- do a edit->reconfigure
- look for lines like

[...]

+checking for document class ISUthesis [report, isuthesis.sty]...
+checking for document class LNI [article]... yes
+checking for document class MSM [MSM]... yes
+checking for document class USCthes [USCthes]... yes
+checking for document class a0poster [a0poster]... yes
+checking for document class aastex [aastex]... no
+checking for document class amsbook [amsbook]... yes
+checking for document class apa [apa,apacite.sty]... yes
+checking for document class article-algo [article,algolyx.sty]... no
+checking for document class article [article]... yes
+checking for document class book [book]... yes
+checking for document class broadway [broadway]... yes
+checking for document class cd-box [article]... yes
+checking for document class chess [article,skak.sty]... yes
[...]


then you will see, which LaTeX classes are installed
in your local tex-installation.

Missing classes can easily be installed.


Herbert



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