Hi,
First I would say that I have used Suse for the last five years, so my
knowledge of mandrake is a bit limited.
I think it is quicker for you to roll out your own compilation of LyX than try
to find a rpm you can use. You will need to decide if you want a xform or a
qt frontend. If you do not know which one you want, xforms probably is the
answer. You can always reconsider :)
Anyway whatever you decide you need the libraries and the development
libraries installed on your PC before you can commence the compilation.
For xform this means installing:
xforms-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
libforms1-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
libforms1-devel-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
When these are installed and you have down loaded the lyx-sourcecode, follow
the instruction in the INSTALL file the comes with the lyx-source:.
The first part of the INSTALL file:
<<
Here the four steps are:
0) Linux users beware: if compiling the Qt frontend, you need
qt and qt-devel packages of the same version to compile LyX.
1) ./configure
configures LyX to your system. By default, LyX configures
the xforms frontend, use --with-frontend=qt to build a Qt
version. You may have to set
--with-qt-dir=<path-to-your-qt-installation> to succeed.
2) make
compiles the program.
3) src/lyx
runs the program so you can check it out.
4) make install
will install it. You can use "make install-strip" instead
if you want a smaller binary.
>>
I hope this helps. If you get any errors, feel free to ask more question and
we'll answer them as best as we can.
Ingar
