On Saturday 18 October 2008 07:38:24 pm Pavel Sanda wrote: > > ~ > > the thing is that as I read online in order to install qt 4 you need > > libqt4-core and then to install libqt4-core you need ... so you will > > be dealing with an apparently endless dependency > > ~ > > There should be a way to deal with this, right? What is it? > > isn't this the job of your linux distro to care about the dependencies? > pavel
Oh not that again! Let's try to help this guy. Albretcht: Look through the LyX-Users archives for a thread with subject "Why oh why did you drop xforms?" It's a long and sometimes contentious thread, but it shows a solution to the problem. Be aware that after a botched compile attempt where dependencies aren't met, you need to remove the tree and re-untar the tarball. That was the main piece of information I didn't have at first. In August 2008 I tried again, and that time I had to use rpm with the dreaded --nodeps in order to get it to work. If you were thinking of upgrading to the latest version of your distro, this would be an excellent time to do so. I had horrid problems compiling 1.5.x on Mandriva 2007, but on Mandriva 2008 it compiled effortlessly because Mandriva 2008 had the necessary version of qt4. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US
