On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 11/02/2011 11:46 PM, bsquared wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote: >>> On 11/2/11 3:19 PM, bsquared wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I have used lyx on other distos with no problems, but >>>> I am having problems getting lyx configured on ArchLinux. >>>> >>>> [snip] >>>> >>>> This is redacted output: >>>> >>>> [code] >>>> LyX: reconfiguring user directory >>>> checking for a Latex2e program... >>>> +checking for "latex"... yes >>>> checking for a DVI postprocessing program... >>>> +checking for "pplatex"... no >>>> checking for pLaTeX, the Japanese LaTeX... >>>> +checking for "platex"... yes >>>> >>>> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt platex.fmt >>>> Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e) >>>> >>> This is the problem. LyX thinks you do not have LaTeX installed. I know we >>> have seen this before, but I do not remember what the problem was. Try >>> having a look at the config.log file and see why LyX is choking. You can >>> also post it here. Perhaps someone else will remember.... >>> >> Thank you. >> >> Are you referring to the the config.log created in the build process? >> > The file I'd like to see is configure.log, which should be in your LyX > user directory, by default $HOME/.lyx/. However.... > >> If so I did not build. I installed via pacman (ArchLinux package manager). >> If not where would I find this log? >> > we have seen this problem on Arch recently. Can you please run "python > --version" and find out what version that is? The previously reported > problems were due to this being Python 3.x, which is not backwards > compatible (why not!?) and will not properly run the configure script. > > If that is the problem, you can find some sort of solution, I think, in > this thread: > http://marc.info/?l=lyx-devel&m=131914585121454&w=2 > > Richard > >
configure.log : http://pastebin.com/DhMqGtS9 python --version Python 3.2.2 I have 2.x installed also as python2. python2 --version Python 2.7.2 I tried the configure script like this "python2 /usr/share/lyx/configure.py", but that does not work either. The link provided would possibly help if I were building LyX, but I don't really want to jump through those hoiops right now. I will report this as a bug to ArchLinux LyX package maintainer. Thanks for your help. -- Regards, -Brian
