Help with LyX, anyone?

[kleeman]

1.4.3 does actually support Figure floats. I use it all the time. Might be worth having a good read of the users manual which is accessible from the menu (Notice how politely I didn't say RTFM )

[elfstone214]

1.4.3 does actually support Figure floats. I use it all the time. Might be worth having a good read of the users manual which is accessible from the menu (Notice how politely I didn't say RTFM )

either way I still cannot install the class in either one right now

I am positive that it is not Lyx anyway. I can open my thesis.lyx but I cannot build it because it is missing the class ... it has to be a latex related issue. I have two folders for "texmf", one is simply /usr/share/texmfm and the other is /usr/share/texmf-tetex

when I run texhash now it updates /var/libs/ls-R and when I open it my class folder is not in there. I don't understand in which folder it is looking in. This is driving me "INSANE" to put it mildly.

[kleeman]

If you export it to latex does it compile then using the latex command? i.e. does a latex file using your class work? If not then something has gone wrong in your latex installation of the class files.

[parktownprawn]

Try putting the packages in

/usr/local/share/texmf/

What is the output of

sudo texhash

What happens if you just try running latex on your thesis (in tex format) ?

[elfstone214]

I don't have a /usr/local/share/texmf/ folder but I do have /usr/share/texmf/

I put them there and "texhash", reconfigured, and nothing. I think texhash is not looking in the right locations. I have tried adding other classes without success either. I did add the "beamer-class" using sudo apt-get install beamer-class, and that worked beautifully.

I exported it as latex (plain) and ran "latex thesis.tex", it ran although there were some errors and it still produced a dvi file which I opened. The dvi file looks ok but missing a lot of the formatting (which I need) and figures do not show up.

[kleeman]

Try this (and give us the output at each stage!!!):

sudo mkdir /usr/local/share/texmf/

sudo cp ****.tar.gz /usr/local/share/texmf/


(where ****.tar.gz is the name of your package of style files)

sudo su
cd /usr/local/share/texmf/
tar zxvf ****.tar.gz
texhash

[elfstone214]

kleeman, I did your steps and everything went smooth (no errors)

opened lyx, reconfigure, closed, reopened lyx, and it still does not show up. When I open my thesis.lyx it says the gatech-thesis class is unknown, then it opens the file and gives another error message about the gatech-thesis.layout being unknown too.

Later on, I am going to try and see if I can replicate what the "beamer-class" did and where it installed itself and see if that works with my class.

[kleeman]

Did you create a layout file for lyx and put it in $HOME/.lyx/layouts ???
See my howto in post #2 at the top of the thread for specific instructions.
Lyx needs that layout file to see the class.

They give you a sample file with the lines

#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass[funkyarticle]{article (funky)}

# Input general definitions
Input stdclass.inc

you need to change funkyarticle to gatech-thesis here
and funky to gatech

Hopefully the after reconfiguring lyx will see the gatech class.

[elfstone214]

kleeman that did it! I had put the layout in the wrong folder. But it is now all working!!

Thanks a lot man and to everyone who helped! I am now fully up and running on Linux

[kleeman]

No worries. Good luck with your thesis!