> I know that this sounds like a troll question,
Somewhat. Yes ;-)
> but I ma being serious. I am currently running a w2k setup, and most
>of the software I use daily is for windoze. However, I have used lyx
>before, and I think that it really makes word look like a toy, so I'd
>really like to be able to use it. I read a page about a port on windows,
>and even tried it , and while it worked sort of OK, I could see that it
>was a port, and it wasn't "just right' - sometimes I'd get errors from
>the X-server etc.
>
> My question is this : how difficult would it be for a linux newbie (not
> an idiot though, i've installed linux before) to set up Lyx on, say,
> RedHat 7.1?
wget ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.1.6fix3/lyx-1.1.6fix3-1.i386.rpm
wget ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.1.6fix3/tetex-lyx-1.1.6fix3-1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh lyx-1.1.6fix3-1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh tetex-lyx-1.1.6fix3-1.i386.rpm
> Or would it be better to stick with CygWin?
If Linux is an option for you I don't think so. Some of the new features
like the converter stuff need external programs which are unlikely to find
in a standard W2000 setup.
Andre'
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