Russell W. Behne wrote:
I just (re)installed Linux (Mandriva 2006) on cleanly formatted partitions,
and when I open LyX (ver 1.3.5) I get an error message saying:
Textclass error
The document uses a missing TeX class "article".
LyX will not be able to produce output.
Other documents give the same error, but for a different tex class, depending
on whatever one that document is supposed to be using. I also noticed that
there's no longer several menu items, things like previewing in PS or PDF,
and exporting to anything other than ascii.
I have another directory, /usr/local/texmf/tex/latex where I keep style files
that I downloaded. (I keep them there to both make them available to all
users, and to survive formats and reinstalls of other partitions.) After
every reinstall I run this command sequence from a batch file:
rm -f /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
cp /usr/local/texmf/texmf.cnf /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
/usr/bin/mktexlsr
where /usr/local/texmf/texmf.cnf is a custom texmf.cnf that makes LyX
recognize these files. (/usr/local is a separate partition, _all_ other
partitions were formatted during this reinstall.) (Some files I wanted to
keep were copied to another drive prior to doing the format.)
Unfortunately, in addition to the previously mentioned problems, LyX can't
find these files anymore, even after I ran the batch file. (This batch file
has always worked for me prior to this latest install.)
I'm baffled. What's wrong, and what need I do?
Did you reconfigure LyX after you ran the batch file?
/Paul
