On Nov 24, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote:
The LyX installation on a Mac OS running 3.9 is not configured
properly,
and I think to confiugre it should be easy. (I was not able to install
LyX using the installer because of problems with the script; I started
another thread on this problem, but no one can seem to answer it.)
When I open up the view menu, I cannot update my file. That is, I
cannot
get LyX to convert it automatically to PDF of DVI. I have added the
path
to the preferences and reconfigured LyX, but that does
not work.
My latex binary is in:
/usr/TeX/bin/powerpc-darwin/latex
So I have added
/usr/TeX/bin/powerpc-darwin: to the beginning of my path. I have then
run the reconfigure commnd. But this does not seem to help. LyX cannot
find latex and cannot find my classes. I have looked through the
documentation and cannot find anything to help me.
Hi,
it's hard to say what's going on - maybe the following questions will
help:
since your path is not one of those listed under "prerequisites" at
http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac#toc4
my first question would be if you have checked that pdflatex,
ghostscript and imagemagick work properly outside of LyX. How did you
install this TeX (manually or using some installer)? If you're sure
that this is a kosher TeX installation, you could create a symbolic
link as mentioned in the above link.
Next, what version of LyX are you using?
Your operating system is Panther, so the question arises if you had
an older version of LyX installed previously.
Did you run the install script for LyX? You said you added the binary
path to the preferences - I'm assuming you mean the preferences in
the LyX menu, under "PATH prefix". Is that correct?
To make sure people know which sh script you're talking about, it
would probably be good to send the verbatim output from the Console
or Terminal command line.
Also, does "View > pdflatex" produce any output starting with "lyx"
in the /tmp/ directory. Is there a latex log file?
Does exporting to latex or pdflatex work in the File menu?
I'm sure the problem is fixable, but things are a bit too hazy at
this point.
Regards,
Jens
