LyX on Mac OS X Loin

[Taimur]

Hi All,

I installed LyX on my MacBook Air.
When I run LyX a window pops up,
saying that "LyX will only have
minimal functionality because no
textclasses have been found.
You can either try to reconfigure LyX
normally, try to reconfigure without
checking your LaTeX installation, or continue."

Whatever option I choose, View (pdf view)
option remains off, i.e., I cannot convert my
LyX file to pdf
after TeXing it. I reinstalled LyX but of no use.
What should I do?

[Anders Ekberg]

Have you installed TeX?

Anders

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Post by Taimur
Hi All,
I installed LyX on my MacBook Air.
When I run LyX a window pops up,
saying that "LyX will only have
minimal functionality because no
textclasses have been found.
You can either try to reconfigure LyX
normally, try to reconfigure without
checking your LaTeX installation, or continue."
Whatever option I choose, View (pdf view)
option remains off, i.e., I cannot convert my
LyX file to pdf
after TeXing it. I reinstalled LyX but of no use.
What should I do?

[Taimur]

Hi Anders,

Yes, I did.
When I select New File, error pops up saying
"The layout file:article could not be found.
A default textclass with default layouts will be used.
LyX will not be able to produce correct output".

I cannot figure out what should I do.

Thanks for your reply.

[Anders Ekberg]

If reconfigure dies not help, try open a terminal and issue the command
sudo texhash
(You will need to give admin password)

Anders

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Post by Taimur
Hi Anders,
Yes, I did.
When I select New File, error pops up saying
"The layout file:article could not be found.
A default textclass with default layouts will be used.
LyX will not be able to produce correct output".
I cannot figure out what should I do.
Thanks for your reply.

[Steve Burnham]

I assume you are using MacTeX? What version? It really sounds like
something is messed up with the install. Have you tried uninstalling and
then reinstalling everything with the latest versions?

-Steve

Post by Taimur
Hi Anders,
Yes, I did.
When I select New File, error pops up saying
"The layout file:article could not be found.
A default textclass with default layouts will be used.
LyX will not be able to produce correct output".
I cannot figure out what should I do.
Thanks for your reply.