Am Sonntag, 18. Februar 2007 04:40 schrieb John McCabe-Dansted: > I compiled lyx 1.4.4 from source in Dapper. I got the error below. > This was fixed by moving ~/.lyx out of the way. I just thought I'd > mention it in case anyone else had the same problem. > > LyX: reconfiguring user directory > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py", line 759, in ? > log = open(logfile, 'w') > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'configure.log' > > if I manually run "/usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py", configure > works, but does not fix ~/.lyx, so manually running configure was not > enough to allow me to run lyx.
You have to run it from the directory where the lyxrc.defaults files should be placed, e.g. from ~/.lyx. Georg
