On Tuesday 23 January 2007 1:40:34 pm Guy Hindell wrote: > I need to get lyx1.4.2 running on redhat el3 (don't ask why). Having > fetched the sources (I couldn't find an rpm ready to go) and sorted out > the dependencies (qt etc.) I went for a "configure; make" and the build > ran off without a hitch. > > But... > > on running up the binary something fails as LyX prepares it's > configuration... > > +checking for "sgml2lyx"... yes > checking for SGML-tools 2.x (DocBook) or db2x scripts... > +checking for "sgmltools"... no > +checking for "db2dvi"... yes > Checking whether TeX allows spaces in file names... > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/home/devuser/public/lyx-1.4.2/lib/configure.py", line 705, in ? > checkTeXAllowSpaces() > File "/home/devuser/public/lyx-1.4.2/lib/configure.py", line 635, in > checkTeXAllowSpaces > if 'working' in latex_out: > TypeError: 'in <string>' requires character as left operand > LyX: Done! > LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file `'. Exiting. > > Can anyone help me out with this?
What is the python version that runs with EL-3? I suspect this is the problem. :-( > guy -- José Abílio
