Authoring tool lyx is missing document classes

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Krzysztof Mitko <kmitko at mm.st> wrote:
> W dniu 17.09.2012 17:12, Kevin O'Gorman pisze:
>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Krzysztof Mitko <kmitko at mm.st> wrote:
>>> You'll find almost every latex class in the ubuntu repository (package
>>> texlive-full is the complete distribution).
>>
>> Then I'm baffled.  I installed texlive and lyx.  The lyx
>> Document->Settings->Document Class menu shows all sorts of classes,
>> all of them marked "unavailable".
>>
>> Where are the class files?  That is where can I get them, and where
>> should I put them?  Or is there something else blocking this?
>
> I installed lyx and it had all the classes just after first run. I am
> not sure why they're not available on your system. Just a guess - maybe
> you should run Tools->Reconfigure to let lyx search for a latex packages?
>

Tools -> Reconfigure goes through a great many things, almost all of
them annotated with "no".  At the end, only 3 classes appear available
in Document->Settings, all of them DocBook.

I think I'm going to uninstall, then download source and see how that goes....

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman

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