Am Dienstag, 14. September 2004 18:25 schrieb Jianwei Huang: > Hi, > > My administrator has installed lyx (1.3.1) on my Linux > machine (Red Hat Enterprise 9.0). Since I do not have > the root privilege, I wonder if there are good ways > for me to:
You should upgrade to 1.3.4 or even 1.3.5cvs > (1) Creat a local texmf so that I can add some > additional latex packages for use with lyx (and > general latex use as well). I hope that I do not have > to change the texmf.cnf, since the computer is used by > multiple users. This is easy (assuming you use tetex, I don't know if/how it works with other tex distributions): create ~/texmf and fill it with appropriate content. Then run texconfig rehash as normal user, and it will update the file search database in ~/texmf. > (2) Not bother the administrator every time I want to > upgrade to a higher version of lyx. Can I just compile > a local version of lyx coexisting with the older > version installed by the root? If so, is there a step > by step instruction for that ? (I am pretty new to > Linux). just build lyx with configure --prefix=/my/dir make make install and add /my/dir/bin to your path. If this dir comes before /usr/bin etc. your lyx will be used instead of the system version Georg
