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: > 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: > > > > Hi Xavier, > > > > thanks for the report! > > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > > LyX has a reconfigure option (Tools -> Reconfigure) but it does not > > > seem to help. > > > > Investigating this might be a good starting point. > > > > -- > > Ricardo > > > > > > > -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted