On Monday 29 August 2005 00:39, Stephen P. Harris wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Pablo Ortúzar wrote: > > The article.cls file should be in the ./tex/latex/base folder under your > > LaTeX installation. Is it there? If not, the teTeX installation may be > > hosed. If it is there, then I suspect there's a problem with environment > > > > variables. Quoting the teTeX FAQ: > >> The file texmf.cnf is searched for in $SELFAUTODIR, $SELFAUTOPARENT, > >> $TETEXDIR. If the file texmf.cnf is not found, set the TETEXDIR variable > >> in your environment. > > > > Are those variables set in your environment? > > > > Paul > > I think there is a possibility that if article.cls exists and is not found, > that some old file like .bash_profile or /etc/profile or even .login might > have a prior defining entry which points to older locations of files and > which could possibly differ from a newer version of teTeX, or maybe > even Suse 10 beta, which could change the previous default installation > of files and create a gun loaded with blanks pointing at the wrong culprit. > Still, it seems most likely that many .cls are genuinely missing in action > rather than being held incognito as political hostages. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- http://people.freebsd.org/~hrs/tetex-upgrade.txt > > "(5 Jun 2005) Note that if you have environment variables for teTeX > in a wrong way (such as TEXINPUTS, TEXMF, TEXMFCNF, and so > on), they may prevent teTeX from working. Please unset them first if > you do not know what they are for since typically they are not needed. > However, some TeX related packages may suggest to set TEXINPUTS. > In that case, please make sure the TEXINPUTS includes a trailing ":" > character, which indicates the standard search paths are also used." > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- > > Tags, > Stephen
Thanks. I went back to Mandrake LE2005, and Lyx is -again- working as usual. All classes *can't* be missing in the SuSE LaTeX rpm, so I tend to believe that -perhaps because the search paths are wrong- Lyx couldn't find them. -- Pablo Ortúzar
