I have spent all afternoon trying to update my version of lyx. Or rather, my computer has spent all afternoon. The file I tried to download was about 4 megs, and it should have been done by the time I got back to the library. For some reason, it was only half done. So I read a few short stories and came back to my computer. Somehow, lynx had started downloading the file again.
The file I was trying to download was lyx-1.1.5fix2tar.gz. I found this in the stable directory. When I looked for the file on my hard drive, it was nowhere to be found. I then tried Netscape. I went to the bin directory and tried downloading the lyx-1.1.5fix2-1.5scr.rmp. Instead of downloading a separate file, it started to download code to my browser window. So I quit out of this and tried downloading the ppc rpm. (Not sure of the full file name.) I went back in the living room and read a few more short stories. When I came back, the file had finished downloading (I guess?), and there was a little window starting the file name. I pressed okay. I still couldn't find the file, so I thought there was some error when downloading it. So I repeated the download. Same result. I did a find / -name *lyx* just to make sure the file wasn't put in a strange place. Anybody know what's going on? If I have to download the file from my shell (bash), could someone give me explicit instructions on how to do this? Thanks Paul On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:53:10AM +0200, Thomas Steffen wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: time for a version change? > From: Thomas Steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 26 Sep 2001 10:53:10 +0200 > User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Copyleft) > > Paul Tremblay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My version of lyx is 1.1.4fix3, which came with my SuSE distribution. > > Should I update? > > Yes, 1.1.5fix2 is quite a bit better. 1.1.6fix3... well, I just can't > decide whether it is actually an improvement. > > Beware however that both are not backward compatible. Most documents > will work, but there are subtle problems with minor data loss. Tables > from 1.1.6 are not backward compatible at all. > > > I have a ppc, so I might have to download the source and compile the > > binary. > > It should be enough to get the source rpm. > > > However, I am more concerned at having to possible download > > libraries and compile them as well. > > xforms and xpm are required in binary and headers (development), other > than that there should be no problem. > > Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- > Umweltfreundlich, da aus recycleten Buchstaben. -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *[EMAIL PROTECTED]* ************************
