LyX can't build PDFs / missing begin document
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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lyx (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Reconfigure results in:
```
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/
ret = checkLatexConfi
File "/usr/share/
for line in open(file, 'r', encoding=
File "/usr/lib/
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa9 in position 845: invalid start byte
support/
```
Running 'python3 -tt "/usr/share/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: lyx 2.3.4.2-2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-26-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Wed Apr 29 10:50:55 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-08 (2182 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Linux Mint 16 "petra" - Release amd64 20131126
SourcePackage: lyx
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-25 (4 days ago)
Exporting to xetex format then running xelatex on the resulting *.tex file results in a successful PDF build.