LyX can not find refstyle.sty

I couldn't find a way to make LyX find refstyle.

How to reproduce:

1 - Install the texlive and lyx packages

2 - Load the bug.lyx file (or any other file that makes it add \usepackage{refstyle} to the generated TeX file).

3 - Press Ctrl+R to compile the file.

4 - You will get an error saying that refstyle.sty could not be found.

You can however use LyX to produce a .tex file, and the run pdflatex from the terminal and it will work.

Since it loaded inputenc, the package just before refstyle, from /gnu/store/wy5865kh09qak63rpq3v47wnxv2gj1y0-texlive-union-49435/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty, and /gnu/store/wy5865kh09qak63rpq3v47wnxv2gj1y0-texlive-union-49435/ does not contain refstyle, I think that the problem is that LyX uses the pdflatex from this textlive-union instead of the one from the full texlive.

LyX has a reconfigure option (Tools -> Reconfigure) but it does not seem to help.

Hi Xavier,

thanks for the report!

The problem is that Lyx is configured to use the texlive-union that was

provided during the build. It should prefer an optional TeX Live

installation that the user provides. Perhaps we can make it

(optionally?) look up the TeX Live tools on PATH before falling back to

its texlive-union.

Investigating this might be a good starting point.

--

Ricardo

Hi Ricardo,

LyX seems to build and run fine without this texlive-union. The texlive stuff is only required when one wants to compile a lyx document to a pdf. I'd therefore expect it to not be a dependency (but maybe a recommended package).

And removing this texlive-union fixes my problem: Now, if texlive is installed in the profile, it finds it and all its components.

(Note: I use "./pre-inst-env guix environment --pure --container --share=$XAUTHORITY --share=/tmp/.X11-unix --ad-hoc lyx bash coreutils evince -- env XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY DISPLAY=$DISPLAY lyx2.3" to run lyx so that it reconfigures at startup)

Xavier

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019, at 9:30 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:

I just made some changes to the Lyx package. Can you test it out now to

see if it works as expected?

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 04:23:18PM +0000, Xavier Montillet wrote:

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Efraim, thanks for those changes, they fixed some bugs.

However, I still see many errors related to ".sty" files (refstyle, hyperref, enumitem, etc.), and ".cls" files (scrbook, scrartcl, etc.) not found when I try to open and view (Ctrl+R) the documents listed in LyX Help menu, and my own documents. When I install LyX, I would expect those help documents to work without errors.

It seems that this issue is not caused by any behavior of LyX, since

merely adding LyX to a profile breaks the existing texlive installation:

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~/tmp$ cat test.tex

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}

\usepackage{url}

\begin{document}

\end{document}

~/tmp$ guix environment --pure --ad-hoc texlive -- pdflatex test.tex

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019) (preloaded format=pdflatex)

restricted \write18 enabled.

entering extended mode

(./test.tex

LaTeX2e <2018-12-01>

(/gnu/store/wyp70a5a4spmj1g2wvm27d5968sssvwq-texlive-texmf-20190410/share/texmf

-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls

Document Class: article 2018/09/03 v1.4i Standard LaTeX document class

(/gnu/store/wyp70a5a4spmj1g2wvm27d5968sssvwq-texlive-texmf-20190410/share/texmf

-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))

(/gnu/store/wyp70a5a4spmj1g2wvm27d5968sssvwq-texlive-texmf-20190410/share/texmf

-dist/tex/latex/url/url.sty)

No file test.aux.

(./test.aux) )

No pages of output.

Transcript written on test.log.

~/tmp$ guix environment --pure --ad-hoc texlive lyx -- pdflatex test.tex

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019) (preloaded format=pdflatex)

restricted \write18 enabled.

entering extended mode

(./test.tex

LaTeX2e <2018-12-01>

(/gnu/store/xq0b0mgz5h6invz9fh13n29mb2jfdb0s-texlive-union-51265/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls

Document Class: article 2018/09/03 v1.4i Standard LaTeX document class

(/gnu/store/xq0b0mgz5h6invz9fh13n29mb2jfdb0s-texlive-union-51265/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))

! LaTeX Error: File `url.sty' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,

or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)

Enter file name:

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Regards,

Jakub K?dzio?ka