Why does lyx not find an installed .sty?

[Axel Dessecker]

Am Sonntag, 22. Januar 2023, 16:41:33 CET schrieb Rich Shepard:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2023, Rich Shepard wrote:
> >> What would be the option/action of tlmgr? Looking at the man page I'm not
> >> sure what command to use.
> > 
> > I also ran 'su -c texhash' and that didn't let the letter compile.
> 
> Installed here are:
> texlive-2021.210418-x86_64-1slint
> texlive-extra-2020.200608-x86_64-1_SBo
> 
> and LyX has been working as it should ... except for this scrpage2.sty
> issue.
> 
> Searching the web for a solution I tried running (as root) 'tlmgr update
> --all' only to be shown, 'bash: tlmgr: command not found'. But, tlmgr is
> present as a perl script in /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl.
> 
> Since I've not dug into the TeXLive details I don't understand why the
> script is not found and question whether the update --all action to tlmgr
> would make scrpage2.sty visible to LyX.
> 
> Looking forward to learning,
> 
> Rich

Rich,

scrpage2.sty has been deprecated for nine years or so. If it's in your 
preamble, just delete it or try the replacement suggested at 
https://sourceforge.net/p/koma-script/wiki-en/Error_scrpage2/

Good luck,
Axel