No, that has 192 files in it.

On 14-03-27 09:02 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
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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





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