> William> In fact, it loks like I have NO XForms installed. > > William> What is the package / RPM which provides XForms ? Is this > William> package free ( GPL ) ? > > William> I use a Mandrake 8.1, Do you think It is normal that > William> Mandrake installs Lyx without installing XForms too, since > William> Lyx crashes without It ? ( I didn't used options like --force > William> or --nodeps ). > > Actually, xforms (for now) only exists in binary form, and linux > distribution maintainers do not want to include it for this reason.
They are probably right ;-) what a pity lyx depends on this kind of binary package ;-(( > Therefore mandrake chose to provide a binary rpm which is statcally > linked with xforms (which is why you do not have xforms installed). > Unfortunately, they chose a version of xforms compiled against > glibc2.0, which crashes quite reliably in some cases (tryig to show an > error message) when used with glibc2.[12]. This has been a known > problem for some years, but I do not know of a place to report bugs > for mandrake :( OK, I know Mandrake maintainers and will forward this to them. ( I already supposed this could be Mandrake Problem ). > William> Do you know of other packages Not in RPM dependencies for > William> lyx , that I shoud install to get Lyx working Better ? > Try to pick an xforms rpm from ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib and a lyx > rpm from ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.1.6fix4/. The ones for redhat 7.x > should work. OK, I will try this. -- cordialement, William WAISSE fpr = 9CCD 7DA2 7050 8805 F471 03D1 DF76 B78C 690B 4E07 -- Computers are like air conditionners. They work better when you close windows. Brains R like books, they only work when they R open -- Visitez donc mon site perso (version 0.4 du 29/05/2001) : http://www.neofutur.net -- Vous habitez dans l'Essonne et vous aimez les Pingouins ??? visitez donc la GAULE(=LUG91) : http://www.gaule.org -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS/E/MU d- s: a- C++++ UL+++ P+ L++++ E--- W++ N o-- K- w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE-- Y++ PGP++ t+ 5 X++ R++ tv- b+++ DI- D G e++ h* r++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
