On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Payal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I am using Ubuntu 10.04 with lyx 1.6.5 installed from Ubuntu > repositories. > I d/l lyx-2.0.0beta2.tar.gz, extracted it, did ./configure && make and > did NOT do make install. I just went into src/ and did ./lyx from there > and tried it for few mins. > After that I closed it and in evening opened 1.6.5, but to my horror I > found that many layouts were missing, including that of beamer. Instead > of acrobat reader, pdf was shown in envince. > > I want my original layouts and settings back. What should I do now? > I am assuming that you ran 2.0 beta2 as user, which means that LyX tried to upgrade your profile settings in ~/.lyx. I am not sure why the layouts would go missing (are they global layouts shipped with LyX or custom, local ones?), but you may try to move ~/.lyx to ~/.lyx.bak and start LyX with a fresh profile; then you would need to reset all your preferences.
To avoid such experiences in the future try: - ./configure --with-version-suffix=-svn --enable-build-type=release - sudo ./lyx The first will allow you to configure and install SVN LyX alongside the stable version; then the two use different profile dirs and happily coexist. The second would avoid messing with your stable config. Regards Liviu > Thanks. > With warm regards, > -Payal > -- > > > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
