My problems are lyx-specific. I was able to get kile to work with latex
after I set an input variable, TEXINPUTS, with all of the directories
used, in my experience, with latex. When I try to use a REVTeX4
template, I receive the following error:

The layout file requested by this document,
revtex4.layout,
is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX
class or style file required by it is not
available. See the Customization documentation
for more information.
LyX will not be able to produce output.

The file then opens, and I can edit it. I just can't generate any output
from it. 

Art Edwards

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On Wed, Nov 11, 2015, at 07:52 AM, Bernhard Linseisen wrote:
> 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
> >