> >I'm having trouble installing Lyx 1.2.3 > > > >When I do ./configure it fails to find libforms of xforms. > > > >I have tried the xforms rpms from the contrib section of the ftp site > > versions 0.88 and 0.89 and libforms version 1RC5 all with no luck. At the > > moment I have libforms installed and it's in /usr/lib. > > > >I have tried to run ./configure --with-extra-lib=/usr/X11R6/lib/ > > > >but I still get the error message: > > > > **** The following problems have been detected by configure. > > **** Please check the messages below before running 'make'. > > **** (see the section 'Problems' in the INSTALL file) > > > > ** Cannot find libforms or libxforms. Please check that the xforms > > library is correctly installed on your system. > > I used xforms from http://world.std.com/~xforms/ . You find the current > version 1.0 for linux i386 under > ftp://ncmir.ucsd.edu/pub/xforms/linux-i386 . Look that no old version is > installed and try to install the new version (read installation > instructions). Afterwards do a "make clean" and a new "./configure" for > Lyx 1.2.3. This helped me, when I got the same error message (using Suse > 8.0).
hmmm got the latest xforms release and installed it, also the xmlib. But now I can compile and make Lyx, but when I try to run it I get this.... -------> /usr/local/bin/lyx: error while loading shared libraries: libforms.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory <------- libforms.so.1 is in /usr/local/lib/. What is the shared object file that it can't find? This has got me stumped. I installed Lyx 1.2.2. on an identical system before using xforms .89 I think without any problems. Cheers Chris -------------------------------------------------------
