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.
>
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>---- 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."
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>----
>
> 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

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