Patrick Dupre wrote: > ! Package babel Error: Unknown option `french'. Either you misspelled it > (babel) or the language definition file french.ldf was not > found . > > > However, the file french.ldf is really available in > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/frenchle/french.ldf > (texlive-frenchle) > > In fedora 18 this file is not provided, only frenchb.ldf is available! > > Is it a fedora20 or lyx issue?
Certainly not a LyX issue. Make sure that you have installed all necessary texlive-lang-* packages. As of TeXLive 2003, these are not installed anymore by default on some distros. Regards, Jürgen