Re: Installing LyX on Slackware 9.1

[Paul Jahshan]

Thanks a million, Johann,

Everything worked perfectly (I wanted the qt fronted, much better for my 
taste)!

Cheers!
Paul
Johann Haarhoff wrote:

I installed lyx1.3.3 on slack 9.1 a few days ago. (i assume you want the
xforms frontend)
install tex (/cdrom/slackware/t/tetex--.tar.gz I think)
Install xpm, then xforms
goto the lyx source dir, then:
./configure --frontend=xforms  (qt for qt frontend)
make
make install (or checkinstall)
checkinstall is probably one of the best apps for slack, it is in
/cdrom/slackware/extras/checkinstall. It builds a slackpack from your
source dir and installs it. This makes it easy to just do a removepkg
lyx, if and when you upgrade.
troubleshooting:

If you are building xforms and xpm from source make sure that the
install to the correct directory (usually /usr/lib), run ldconfig after
installing them.
make sure that the correct version of xforms is present, i've had
issues with that in the past.
Hope this helps

Johann Haarhoff

 

Paul Jahshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/31/03 06:26AM >>>
       

Hi all,

I was trying to install LyX 1.3.3 on Slackware 9.1 but I either got 
error messages about missing class files not in the right place or 
getting a below-average GUI. I know it should work because I did the 
same install on the same machine a few weeks ago and it all worked 
properly, but I had to re-format and re-install everything again.
I have LyX as tar.gz, xforms, and xpm. Any idea why I can't seem to get

what I once had? Any specific order to install the three files above?

Many thanks,
Paul
 

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