On Tuesday 09 September 2003 9:17 am, Andrew Criswell wrote: > Hello All: > > I was able to successfully install and use lyx 1.3.1 on Mandrake 9.0 using > the command, > > rpm -ivh --nodeps lyx-1.3.1-1mdk9-qt.i586.rpm > > However, if I try to install lyx 1.3.2 using the command > > rpm -ivh --nodeps lyx-1.3.2-1mdk91-qt.i586.rpm > > it seems to go smoothly but when I attempt to open the progam, i get a > complaint,
I'm not an expert but I think it only goes smoothly because you used --nodeps ... if you don't I suspect you'll have lots of dependencies which aren;t fulfilled. nodeps is very dangerous. I think you're trying to use a version for mandrake 9.1 on a mandrake 9.0 machine, and that the compilers and libraries are incompatible. Your options are - move to mandrake 9.1 (it's much nicer than 9.0, but that's lots of work). - compile lyx for mandrake 9.0 (this probably sounds a nightmare but is not too bad - I expect there are instructions on www.lyx.org) - try and find lyx-13.2 rpms for mdk9.0 (I had a quick look but couldn't see any). Good luck (and never, ever use rpm with nodeps unless you really know what you're doing!) Ed
