On 8/5/05, Derek Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just upgraded my machine from Redhat 9 to Fedora Core 4. Since the > upgrade (which I saw inclued a tetex upgrade), LyX 1.3.6 does not > recognize any Tex document classes: 'The document uses a missing TeX > class "article". LyX will not be able to produce output'. I found > previous messages on the archives with similar troubles and tried those > solutions (in particular > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg40759.html and > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg39463.html ), > but they did not work for me. My TeX classes are present: they are > found by LyX in View->TeX Information ->LaTeX classes ->article.cls (for > example), and they are also found by doing > $ kpsewhich tex article.cls > /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls > > I have run texhash and LyX->Edit->Reconfigure, deleted my ~/.lyx > directory and restarted, even reinstalled LyX just to be sure, to no > avail. > > When I do LyX->Help->LaTeX Configuration, Section 1 says that "The LaTeX > version that LyX will use is: ???" And every item in the document is > followed by a "Found: ???". So LyX can't find LaTeX just because I > upgraded my OS? To be fair, I never bothered to check what this file > said before the upgrade, as everything worked fine. > > I am now out of ideas, and any you have would be much appreciated. > Reinstalling teTeX seems a bit extreme, since everything is here already.
Derek: try to use the latex command (from the command line) on a LaTeX document to check whether the problem comes exclusively from the LaTeX side. Paul
