Hi all, I just compiled the latest 1.5 branch on Mandrake 10.1. I only had to specify the nonstandard qt4 directory as Mandrake 10.1 doesn't ship with it.
After successfully building and installing, I was greeted with the following error dialogue when starting LyX: --------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<-------- Unable to determine the system directory having searched /usr/local/share/lyx/./ Use the '-sysdir' command line parameter or set the environment variable LYX_DIR_15x to the LyX system directory containing the file `chkconfig.ltx'. --------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<-------- It turns out that /usr/local/share/lyx was created with ownership root.root and mode 700. I found that the subdirectories also had modes of 700, while the files were 644 as expected. (Except for the scripts which had execute permission, also as expected.) After adding group/all read+execute permissions to the directories in the tree, LyX worked as normal. Have fun, Darren
