Dear Art,

I do not know about your experience with Lyx and TeX, so please forgive
me for pointing out in very basic form.
Just to be sure: Was it a .tex-file you tried to "compile" with Lyx or
did you try to open a .dvi-file and convert it to a .pdf-file?

I do not know too much about Lyx, but from my knowledge with Kile and
TeXniCenter I think they are not the best tools to open dvi-files. If
you really have a .dvi-file which you want to export to a .pdf, try on
your terminal/console with "dvipdf inputfilename.dvi
outputfilename.pdf" (without the quotation marks, of course).

Cheers,
Bernhard


On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 18:00 -0700, Arthur H. Edwards wrote:
> I'm running SL6 on a 64-bit machine. I have sudo privileges. Lyx is
> installed, but it seems to have no latex configuration. It is not
> finding .cls or .sty files when I try to build andyting from dvi to
> pdf.
> However, when I look at tex information under tools, it gives a list
> that includes all of the .cls and .sty files it says are missing. 
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Art Edwards
>