Jason Waskiewicz wrote:
I've been using LyX for several years now on Fedora Linux, Windows XP,
and OS X. I've never had any trouble adding extra layouts or text classes.
Recently, I switched to Ubuntu Linux (8.04 -- Hardy Heron). LyX will not
allow me to reconfigure. I even did a fresh install without my additions
and it simply will not reconfigure.
The exact message is:
The system reconfiguration has failed.
Default textclass is used but LyX may not be able to work properly.
Please reconfigure again if needed.
I've done a lot of reading and I'm not the only one who has run into
this, but I have not seen how to solve it.
Can someone please help me?
First off, find where LyX has configure.py stashed. Best guess is
/usr/share/lyx. Now open a terminal in your home directory and cd into
the .lyx subdirectory. (If ~/.lyx does not exist, create it with mkdir
and chmod it to 755, then cd into it.) From the .lyx subdirectory, run
/usr/share/lyx/configure.py. Hopefully something in the output will
help pin down what is going wrong.
/Paul
