app-office/lyx-1.6.9 complains about missing article.layout upon first startup: The layout file requested by this document, article.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. installing dev-texlive/texlive-latex and starting lyx again made it not give this startup error, but after I removed dev-texlive/texlive-latex again I could not make the error reappear. I can produce a similar error when going to Help->User's Guide The layout file requested by this document, scrbook.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. $ emerge --info lyx Portage 2.1.9.45 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.13-r2, 2.6.36-gentoo-r8 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r8-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E8600_@_3.33GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.2 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 02 May 2011 12:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p8 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r2, 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.0 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5, 4.5.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.38 sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.38 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* 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simply run tools->reconfigure. better now?
no response -> close?
(In reply to comment #1) > simply run tools->reconfigure. better now? The system reconfiguration has failed. Default textclass is used but LyX may not be able to work properly. Please reconfigure again if needed. is what it says when I do that.
do you have enabled latex use flag, ie installed texlive?
i reread your initial message, so no you dont have latex installed. then its true what lyx says. you will be able to edit file, but you can not typeset which is natural when you dont want latex installed.
Hadn't noticed the latex use flag on lyx before. IIUYC then without it Lyx isn't very useful.
you may want only edit file without pulling the whole tex tree. on the other hand you are right that latex should be recommended by default.
(In reply to comment #7) > you may want only edit file without pulling the whole tex tree. on the other > hand you are right that latex should be recommended by default. 2.0.1 now has +latex so that should fix the "by default lyx is almost useless" problem
