Hi Thomas !
In the meanwhile I found ths xforms-library on one of my CD's (Nr. 4)
and successfully installed it with yast1 into my system.
I can start LyX now, BUT: When I open my thesis-file (which is a bit
huge: 160 pages, at least 25 eps-graphics inside,...) lyx - and even the
KDE-(XWindow)System CRASHES after 10 to 20 seconds while lyx is still
loading my document (you know: all that stuff of rendering the eps-files
etc...) ! :-(
This_didn't_happen_on_my_former_system using the same lyx-Version
(1.1.4fix3) - OK, it sometimes crashed when I hit the backspace-key to
often) BUT NEVER while it was loading my document - everything was fine,
even with the dvi and PostScript-Output. I have pratically no chance at
the moment to do something, to correct something, e.g. not displaying my
eps-files on screen or something like this, because it crashes too fast
after startup.
What could be wrong now ??
I don't really understand this problem, because I thought reinstalling
the same version should not cause any troubles.
At least for me it is the same version (because of the version-name) but
in fact the former one was from the ftp-site of sylvan (compiled
apparently for a RED-Hat-System I used before on my machine) and know I
installed the "same" version of the Suse-CD on a SUSE-System ...
Do you have any ideas, suggestions ??
yours, Richard
PS: Allan Rae in a former mail was unfortunately right: never change
before important deadlines, but apparently I had to much confidence to
Linux&Co and too less experience, I thaught upgrading the system and
installing the same version of lyx would be no problem - never trust in
computers and it's sciences .... :-(
Thomas Huld wrote:
>
> > 1. When I typed "ldconfig -p | grep forms" my system told me:
> >
> > ==> bash: ldconfig: command not found
> >
> It's probably in /sbin and you may not have that in your path.
>
> /sbin/ldconfig -p
>
> should work, but I guess it's not really relevant now. I would
> be very surprised if it showed that libforms was there after all.
>
> > 4. rpm -q -a | grep xforms
> >
> > ==> no output on the console at all (??) :-(
>
> rpm -q -a lists all the installed packages, so the string "xforms"
> was not in any of them.
>
> > so I guess I don't even have some xforms installed (but shouldn't Yast
> > install automatically all things necessary for running lyx ??); at
> > least the necessary xforms-library should be somewhere on the CD's ...
> > but WHERE ? I'll try to find it out.
> >
> >
> I agree. In the archive I have seen on the net xforms was part of
> SuSE 6.4 so it would be strange if it wasn't in 7.0.
>
> I can't seem to find 7.0 anywhere on the net.
>
> I would guess that it would be on the first CD-ROM.
>
> >
> > so, what do you think are the next steps to do ?
> Mount your SuSE CD-ROM. Mandrake does that automatically now
> when you stuff it in. I don't know about SuSE. Maybe you must
> mount it manually.
>
> Go to the CD-ROM base directory, probably /mnt/cdrom.
>
> Try
>
> find . -name "*forms*" -print
>
> If that gives you the path to a file name something like
>
> xforms-0.89.<some_funny_version_number_etc>.rpm
>
> then you can try to install it, with rpm -i (as root of course).
>
> If necessary, repeat with the other CD-ROMS.
>
> If it's really not there, you will have to install xforms manually
> and compile lyx from scratch. That's a very useful exercise if you
> are not used to such stuff :-).
>
> I've noticed that my own Mandrake system has lyx but not xforms. In this
> case they compiled lyx statically against xforms, so it's not needed
> at runtime. I *could* be that the SuSE people wanted to do the same
> but screwed up somehow.
>
> Let me know how you get on.
>
> Thomas
>
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