On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 12:12:44PM +1000, Darren Freeman wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 15:19 +0200, Leuven, E. wrote: > > thanks for reminding people why they are not using linux anymore ... > > At least most Linux distros come with LyX ready to go. > > I solved the problem in this way. I asked YaST to install the version of > LyX that comes with SuSE 10.2, and it asked to install free-ttf-fonts, > which is a dependency. So I cancelled and just installed the fonts. > Problem solved. > > I mustn't have installed the bundled version of LyX because I knew I > would be compiling it myself. Otherwise this wouldn't have been an > issue. > > There is still the outstanding problem of getting the as-compiled LyX to > install fonts on SuSE, and I'll let the developers nut out why and how > to fix. I think a bug like this isn't reason enough to bash an operating > system. Most people will install a pre-compiled package anyway and the > fonts will go in automatically.
Not for Ubuntu, unfortunately. Stupid really as lots of people use it as it is supposed to be easy. > Thanks to Enrico for taking the time to point out where I was going > wrong. > > Have fun, > Darren - Martin
