On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote: > On 03/08/2014 11:14 AM, stefano franchi wrote: >> >> On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: >>> >>> 2014-03-08 16:00 GMT+01:00 stefano franchi: >>> >>>> I am trying to convert to 2.1 the test document we will use for the >>>> lyx<-->word tests, and I am stuck on biblatex. >>>> The biblatex module we have for 2.0.* loads natbib: >>>> >>>> Format 11 >>>> >>>> # this is biblatex actually >>>> Provides natbib 1 >>>> >>>> >>>> Lyx 2.1 complains that the natbib module cannot be found. >>> >>> >>> I also use this module and do not have this problem. Maybe your >>> installation >>> is not complete. You should have a module natbib.module in LyX's system >>> layouts/ folder. Maybe this is missing at your side? If not, we need >>> probably a bit more info. >>> >> I probably screwed up the install. How do you make a completely >> parallel installation of Lyx 2.1 that won't touch the existing 2.0 >> version either in the local dirs (the ~/.lyx folder) and in the global >> tree (all the stuff installed under /usr)? > > > If you're just testing, you don't need to install 2.1 at all. You can just > run it from where you compile it. As for the userdir, just run it as: > /path/to/2.1/src/lyx -userdir /home/you/lyx21/ > or whatever.
That's exactly what I was doing. And it fails as described. I also just discovered it cannot find the memoir class, even though the "Tex information" shows it is there. Stefano -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org