I don't know about lyx, but I don't think texlive is the problem. I use it with texmaker and it works well. Try installing texmaker :)

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Ravi Desai <ravster3@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
  I have installed lyx, and texlive (from community). I am now (I had tetex earlier and it was working fine) unable to view my documents by clicking View -> DVI or View -> PDF or by clicking the PDF, DVI, and PS buttons on the toolbar.
  I keep getting the error dialog box "File does not exist: /tmp/lyx_tmpdir[random letters and numbers]/lyx_tmpbuf0/foo.dvi" or "blah: blah/foo.pdf" or "blah: /blah/foo.ps".
  Does anyone know how I may solve this problem? I could go back to tetex, but I'd feel more satisfied with finding a solution to the problem, so here I am :) .

Thank you
ravster.




--
Gustavo Andrés Gómez Farhat