Paul A. Rubin wrote: > As usual, everything worked fine after a restart. I shall now stop > replying to myself for a while.
I'm reading, but I've nothing very useful to say. Instead, let me recap: It seems that the problems lie only with the Installer rather than with LyX itself and the only real problem in the Installer is that running the configure script can fail. Uwe's installer circumvents this problem by not running configure at all. Instead he simply adds a preferences file to the system resource directory. If we could get the configure script to run then my approach is preferable because the system preferences file will never be found if a user preference file exists already. However, we can't always get the configure script to run, for reasons unfathomable. I'm at a loss. Sorry. I think that the only robust solution will be to adopt Jean-Marc's suggestion to have a preferences in the system directory and to have lyxrc.defaults and preferences in the user directory. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/50158 part of a thread that you yourself started: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/50113 That's for someone else to implement though. -- Angus
