On Dienstag, 15. Juli 2008 03:12 Ravi Desai wrote: > 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 :) . I don't know lyx so i can't give you the one and only hint.-) Control the commands which be behind the buttons and try to run them in a konsole. I'm a little bit surprised that lyx want to read from /tmp. Could it be that this is a temporary run command what you use? If you run latex (or pdflatex) in a konsole the default is that the output will be in the same directory as the tex files. See you, Attila