Problem converting older files with lyx2lyx

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

On the Mac (deduced from the icloud address)

	find /Applications/LyX.app/ -name lyx2lyx -type f

tells us

	/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx

Try the complete path/file name on the old file and see what that says.


Looks a little like a TeX installation issue, just to be sure, you did
install TeX, right?


I use Homebrew, which has three versions ((annually) updated)

	 brew install mactex
	 brew install mactex-no-gui
	 brew install basictex

I use the latter, and apply a small modification to the default

	 TEXDIR=$(dirname $(kpsewhich texmf.cnf))
	 TEXPARENT=$(dirname $(dirname $(kpsewhich texmf.cnf)))
	 perl -i -p -e 's+\$SELFAUTOPARENT/+/$TEXPARENT/+' $TEXDIR/texmf.cnf

As I have multiple systems I can update the packages missing after an
update of basictex easily with something like

	 tlmgr install $(ssh -C USER at HOST tlmgr list --only-installed \
		| awk '{gsub(":","",$2);print $2}'

and so don't need to have the complete installation.


I also like long error lines and do so something like this

	 brew install gsed

	 for i in error_line max_print_line half_error_line
	 do
		 gsed -i "/$i/d" $TEXDIR/texmf.cnf
	 done
	 cat >> $TEXDIR/texmf.cnf <<EOF
	 error_line=254
	 half_error_line=238
	 max_print_line=1000000
EOF

The EOF must be at the beginning of the line


On 12/10/2022 00:04, ahostmadsen--- via lyx-users wrote:
> Thanks, you mean running lyx2lyx from the terminal? Then I get “command
> not found"
> 
> When I run reconfigure, I get the message:
> 
> The system reconfiguration has failed.
> Default textclass is used but LyX may
> not be able to work properly.
> Please reconfigure again if needed.
> 
> Perhaps I totally need to remove LyX from my computer, and then
> re-install?  As said in the previous email, I already have upgraded
> LyX to the latest version, with no effect.
> 

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