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I posted this in the texlive forum but got no responses so I'm going to try here (sorry!).


I've downloaded and burnt texlive but I don't have root access on my server. Is it still possible to get it to work? Can I put tex somewhere else and set PATH? Without root access can I do *anything* about ...

I've downloaded texlive but I don't have root access on my server. Is it still possible to get it to work? Can I put tex somewhere else and set PATH?

At the moment I'm using mimeTeX but it's not a particularly good replacement.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Bugger. I didn't realise it was out-of-date.

I've got SSH access and I've uploaded the teTeX packages but I can't install them to /usr/local because I don't have permissions. Could they go elsewhere?

They run linux, the CentOS distro.

Don't worry, this question isn't going to be as stupid as you think!

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I've attached a minimal test case that won't preview, export or print to this post. I've changed the .lyx to .txt

Thank you for any help you can offer.

I would post the error message if there were one! Unfortunately it's just that nothing at all happens.

I have created a document in LyX but I cannot get it to export at all, in any format.

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