On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 02:15:11 PM ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: > How come I do not see the menus in Lyx 2 (RC3) under Ubuntu 11.04 > (32 bits)? All the icons are there, but not the usual menus. > EK
Hi Ehud, I had 2.0RC3 on Ubuntu 11.04, and the menus showed. But... The RC3 that came with Ubuntu had several other problems on my box, and the LyX-users people clued me in that RC3 was defective. I went onto the LyX website, downloaded source for 2.0.0, compiled it, and it worked perfectly. Because of all sorts of wierd dependencies, most about Qt4, as expected, you're going to require many tries to compile it, and because each compile leaves leftovers that can screw up the next compile, I figured my best bet was to make a compile script so I could do it again and again on a clean tree. Here's the script: ================ #!/bin/bash rm -rf lyx-2.0.0 tar xJvf lyx-2.0.0.tar.xz cd lyx-2.0.0 ./configure --with-version-suffix=200 --enable-build-type=release -- with-qt4-dir=/usr/lib/qt4 ================ Once I got the preceding to work, make was simply a half hour compile. I then ran src/lyx to make sure it was OK, and then did make install. Now here's the thing. At one point, after it just kept crying about Qt4 and some other dependencies, I just did a Hail Mary and installed almost every package having to do with Qt4. One of them must have done the trick, because it compiled. Ugly, but it worked. So in summary, my experience with LyX-2.0.0RC3 on Ubuntu 11.04 was different from yours in that I had menus, but probably just as negative. RC3 was junk and should be replaced on the principle of quality. I installed LyX-2.0.0 from source, and LyX is now doing every single thing my business needs it to do. HTH StevET Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
