On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Marco Costanzo wrote: > Hi Lyxers... > Does anybody use lyx on a RH 8.0? > I have some installation problems and maybe someone knows some hacks to solve > them.
Disclaimer: use these at your own risk. Don't even bother to ask me anything if they don't work for you, I know next to nothing about building rpms. I built xforms 1.0 and lyx 1.2.2, and using the amazing checkinstall (http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/index.php), I made rpms out of them. This was on a stock redhat 8.0 box. If you want them, you can get the rpms from http://www-hep.colorado.edu/~fperez/pub/. I also put there the rpm for checkinstall itself, in case this most amazing little tool interests you. I have found it incredibly useful (it will build an rpm out of a 'make install' process by trapping all system calls, so you can then put the rpm and later remove it cleanly or distribute it to other machines). Here's a quick readme I put up in the lyx directory: Disclaimer: use these at your own risk. Don't even bother to ask me anything if they don't work for you, I know next to nothing about building rpms. Installation: 1. Download the xforms and the lyx rpms from this directory. 2. Install the xforms rpm _first_ 3. Run ldconfig to update your libraries cache 4. Install the lyx rpm 5. Open lyx, you should see 1.2.2 on the splash screen. Note that I didn't build dependency information into these rpms. You are free to remove the xforms package, and RPM will not complain about broken dependencies. Lyx will just stop working. Cheers, f.
