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On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:50 PM, James A.R. Koehler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I did that and it just recreates all those same empty directories. > Actually the layouts directories that matter are (usually) in /usr/share/lyx/layouts . Is that empty, too? Liviu > Jim > > > > > On 14-03-27 07:02 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> >> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:17 PM, James A.R. Koehler >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Yes, I tried that and got exactly the same result. Last night, >>> I >>> installed the Windows version of Lyx on a WIndows XP virtual machine and >>> it >>> all installed and ran correctly. However, I do not want to use it that >>> way; >>> I want to run the Linux version. I need to edit some material I wrote a >>> few >>> years ago so this is very frustrating. >>> >>> The .lyx/layouts directory is completely empty and, indeed, so are >>> all >>> the other sub-directories under .lyx >>> >> Then you can simply try to mv ~/.lyx ~/.lyx.bak and then restart LyX. >> >> Liviu >> >> >>> Jim >>> >>> >>> >>> On 14-03-26 11:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:00 PM, James A.R. Koehler >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I have installed Lyx (several times!) on two Mint16 machines; one a >>>>> 32-bit >>>>> version and the other 64-bit. Mint is based on Ubuntu 13. In both >>>>> cases, >>>>> when installing either from a download from the Lyx site or via the >>>>> .deb >>>>> repository, it installs without any classes or layouts; i.e., it is not >>>>> very >>>>> >>>> Have you tried installing from the PPA? >>>> >>>> https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release >>>> >>>> >>>> Liviu >>>> >>>>> useful. If I try to read the User Manual, it comes up with an error >>>>> saying >>>>> it cannot find the appropriate class to display the data. Catch 22. >>>>> >>>>> In previous installations on earlier distributions of Linux in other >>>>> years, >>>>> the installation was seamless and problem free. Help! >>>>> >>>>> Jim >>>>> >>>> >> >> > -- 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
