Hi Jacob,
That seems to be the general fix! It now all appears to be working
correctly. I must say that I really do appreciate the help I have
gotten from you guys.
When I just now tried to create a .pdf file of this large
document I have been working on, I got another error about a missing
.sty file so I used the same procedure and successfully also installed
that missing .sty file. My .pdf file was then generated correctly.
Thanks again!!
Jim
On 14-04-01 01:10 PM, Jacob Bishop wrote:
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:56 PM, James A.R. Koehler
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thanks Jacob,
You're welcome. I'm glad to help.
I am also using Mint 16 Petra but with MATE. On my main
machine, which is the 64-bit version of Mint16, I installed all
the texlive packages (I have a fairly high-speed link and lots of
HD space), I opened Lyx, ran Tools > Reconfigure, closed Lyx and
reopened it. I then opened a fairly large document I'd created a
few years ago using the then current version of Lyx and it seemed
to open in the editor nicely. When I tried to view the document
in dvi, I got an error message saying "Latex error: File
'wrapfig.sty not found".
From time to time, I discover that there's a LaTeX package out there
I'd like to use. Sometimes, I discover it from a suggestion or through
a search, but then I have the problem that I don't know how best to
install it. I could manually download the files from CTAN and put them
in the right place, but that gets cumbersome, and there's usually an
easier way. In fact, there's usually some texlive .deb package already
in the repositories waiting for me to install it. The problem is I
don't know which package to install in order to get the LaTeX packages
I want. Fortunately, there's a debian utility called apt-file. It can
be installed the typical way (e.g., $sudo apt-get install apt-file).
Once installed (after running $sudo apt-file update), you can run a
command like $apt-file search wrapfig.sty
I did just that, and it returned the following:
texlive-latex-extra:
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/wrapfig/wrapfig.sty
which tells me that if I want to use wrapfig.sty, I need to have the
package texlive-latex-extra installed. So, what I would suggest is
that you install that package, reconfigure LyX, restart LyX, and then
try to compile your document. I do hope this helps.
I notice that all the sub-directories under the .lyx directory
my home directory are still all empty. Surely this is not normal?
I don't really think that's a problem. Someone may correct me if I'm
wrong, but I believe that directory is only for local customizations
to your LyX install, and it's perfectly fine for it to be empty. Can
you now open and compile the help manuals? Please report back.
Jacob
