Since more than a year I have watched the list and the discussion concerning
the problem that LyX renders graphics only sporadically on fast computers - I
still have the problem and tried the sporadic tips to solve the problem -
without success for SuSE 7.3 and SuSE 8.0. I have tried to update from 1.1.6
to 1.2.1, but was unable to compile the sources - because of the cc1plus
error. Now I have succeeded in part and feel that there might be somebody out
there knowing the ultimate solution. Here is what I did:
When I asked to check the dependencies, the output was:
# rpm -Uvh lyx-1.2.1-1rh8-xforms089.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
tetex-xdvi is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1
tetex-latex is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1
libstdc++.so.5 is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1
libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1
perl(Cwd) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1
perl(File::Basename) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1
perl(FileHandle) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1
perl(lib) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1
perl(strict) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1
perl(vars) is needed by lyx-1.2.1-1
So I installed 1.2.1 from the binary rpm using --nodeps and supplied both
libstdc++.so.5.0.0 and libgcc_s.so.1 in /usr/lib (moreover, a symbolic link
to libstdc++.so.5 was generated and ldconfig was run).
Now LyX 1.2.1 works fine (even xdvi and PDF output), but I do not even see
graphics sporadically any more. Instead I get an error message in each
graphics box telling me that the conversion into a display format failed. In
fact, the message is in German and reads "Fehler bei der Konvertierung in ein
darstellbares Format"
Norbert
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Dr. Norbert Stribeck University of Hamburg voice +49-40-42838-3615
- polymer physicist - Institute TMC fax +49-40-42838-6008
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