On Thursday 22 August 2002 01:58, Pierre Marc Dumuid wrote: > I'm having trouble getting lyx 1.2.1 working, > > I'm generally an rpm person as I get scared of building binaries, > (having to find the libraries etc, and knowing how to configure stuff) > > I downloaded the rpm's for lyx 1.2.1, but it all seems different from > the release of lyx 1.2.0. > > With the release of lyx 1.2.0, two options where given for RH users, > those with RH7.2 and those with 7.3, and two files where supplied: > > lyx-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm > lyx-1.2.0-1rh73-xforms089.i386.rpm. > > I upgraded to RH7.3, and hence installed > lyx-1.2.0-1rh73-xforms089.i386.rpm. > > (I think I had to install xforms-0.89-1.i386.rpm with it)
Yes, that is true. > When trying to update to the 1.2.1 version of lyx, there is only one rpm > on the ftp site: > > lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm > > and when I did sudo rpm -ih lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm, I got: > > error: failed dependencies: > libforms.so.0.88 is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 > libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1 Kayvan is using xforms 0.88. > It seems as if the rpm was compiled using the old xforms (.88) > I don't know why libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is there. I've got: > > libstdc++-2.96-112 and libstdc++-3.1-7 > > which provide me with libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so. > > I've also tried to compile the srpm, but I didn't know where to get this > file, (I found a .src.rpm, but not a .srpm, are they the same??) When I > tried doing Yes, they are the same, at the time I write that I didn't have the name at hand. Also sometimes the directories where those files are stored are called SRPM, so the confusion. > sudo rpm --rebuild lyx-1.2.1-1.src.rpm > > I got the following response: > > lyx-1.2.1-1.src.rpm: No such file or directory I don't use sudo, how about su -c rpm --rebuild lyx-1.2.1-1.src.rpm Notice that you should be in the directory where the file is or else give the full path to it. > Could someone help me out, (or could RPM's be released similar to > lyx-1.2.0-1rh73-xforms089.i386.rpm). I f needed I can built such beast (I will eventually to distribute it for the faculty) :-) > Thanks, > Pierre > > Jos� Ab�lio Oliveira Matos wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 August 2002 14:59, Robert Spee wrote: > >>I picked the xforms 1.0rc file, but when compiling that, my computer > >>crashes. > >> > >>I will use 0.89, but I don't know how to build Lyx form source rpm. Can > >>anyone give me the commandline options I have to use? > > > > rpm --rebuild lyx-1.2.1.srpm > > > > where lyx-1.2.1.srpm is the name of the source rpm. > > > >>Thanx > >> > >>Robert -- Jos� Ab�lio
