David Soukal wrote: >> CVSROOT=pserver:anoncvs AT anoncvs.us.lyx.org:/var/cvs/lyx >> export CVSROOT >> cvs login >> (the password is lyx) >> cvs checkout -d your_dir_name lyx-devel
> Thank you Angus, this works perfect! I have the sources now! > However, later I ran into the following two problems: > 1) tex2lyx won't compile, if fails with the following error Fixed an hour or so ago by Jean-Marc. There may be some delay before the updated code propagates through to the anoncvs mirror. > 2) I configured lyx with --prefix=/home/david/temp/lyx-install to have > LyX installed in my local working directory, but when I tried to run > LyX, I got this error: > Unable to determine the system directory having searched > /home/david/temp/lyx-install/share/lyx/ > Try the '-sysdir' command line parameter or set the environment variable > LYX_DIR_14x to the LyX system directory containing the file > `chkconfig.ltx'. You don't need to install it to use it. Personally, I have a symlink $HOME/bin/qlyxcvs that points to $HOME/lyx/devel/build/src/lyx-qt . Works like a charm. You'll be unable to run "make install" successfully until the tex2lyx problem is resolved. -- Angus