Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2010-03-22, Tim Wescott wrote:
I'm working hard at being a brand-new user, but I'm still a
user-wannabe, because things ain't working! I'm using Ubuntu 9.10,
brand shiny new installation of Lyx. I try to create a document from a
template (any template, but I'll use latex8 as an example)
Really *any*??
Just to sort out principal failure: Could you test with a new standard
document (Ctrl-N), type a simple sentence and view the PDF?
and I get the following:
The layout file requested by this document, latex8.layout, is not
usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required
by it is not available. See the Customization documentation for more
information. LyX will not be able to produce output.
This indicates that a latex document-class is missing.
I tried reconfigure -- no luck.
I tried running texhash -- no luck.
I verified that /usr/share/lyx/layouts is there, and that it has
latex8.layout (and all the others that didn't work) in it.
You will need to install more of texlive than just the basics (which are
auto-installed as a LyX dependency).
In your example, you should look for latex8.cls or latex8.sty. If it is
not on your system, try e.g. `apt-file find latex8.cls`` to see which
package you need to install. (Actually, I did not find a package that
ships latex8 for Debian, so this might even be a "download from CTAN and
install 'by hand'" documentclass, however, you might e.g. find the
seminar class in texlive-latex-recommended.)
Günter
Got it figured out -- thanks.
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