On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:51:23 -0800 Jens Noeckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks again Jens. I will try this in a bit. In the mean time I wanted to report (in case this is valuable to anyone else), that I was able to reconfigure LyX with some success. What I did is create a soft link in /usr/local/bin to the my executable. I didn't think I had to do this because I added the path in the preferences in LyX, but adding the path didn't work. When I tried to view a document using pdflatex, I got a message stating that /tmp/xxxlyx/xxlyx/myfile.pdf could not be found. I went to the directory and found the file myfile.tex and typed pdflatex myfile.tex Some defaults had to run in pdflatex, as if pdflatex was a first run. Then the document was created. When I went back to LyX and tried to view the document in view, I had success. The only problem I have now is that if I modify the document, I cannot update it. I think this problem is different. On my linux machine you can update PDF documents in the PDF viewer, but I know you can't do this in Mac. Since Mac uses Adobe, the file cannot be updated. So I need to find another viewer like ghostview. I have ghostview installed, but it requires X11 (which is also installed), so I may have to use X11 as my viewer. I will let you know how the installation goes when I change that variable. I could also create a soft link to the place where python is expected, couldn't I? Paul > > On Nov 24, 2006, at 3:56 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:30:02 -0800 > > Jens Noeckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >> since your path is not one of those listed under "prerequisites" at > >> http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac#toc4 > >> my first question would be if you have checked that pdflatex, > >> ghostscript and imagemagick work properly outside of LyX. How did > >you > > >> install this TeX (manually or using some installer)? If you're sure > >> that this is a kosher TeX installation, you could create a symbolic > >> link as mentioned in the above link. > > > > Okay, I didn't realize I needed ghostview and imagemagic. I am > > installing them right now. The version is 1.4.3. My TeX > > installation is > > "kosher" in that from the terminal I can type "latex <document>" > > and get > > a PDF document. I installed it with TeXLive, I believe. > > > >> path to the preferences - I'm assuming you mean the preferences in > >> the LyX menu, under "PATH prefix". Is that correct? > > > > Yes, that is correct. > > > >> > >> To make sure people know which sh script you're talking about, it > >> would probably be good to send the verbatim output from the Console > >> or Terminal command line. > > > > I did this in a thread on 2006-11-23. The post is actually from > > Cynthia > > Johnson (whose computer I am trying to install this on). In brief, > > the .sh script stated that python was not found, though I have a > > working version of python in /usr/local/bin. > > > > Thanks for your response. I wanted to reply right away even before I > > downloaded ghostview because the easiest (and perhaps best) way to > > fix this problem is to fix the installer problem, if possible. > > > > Paul > > > > > > Paul, > > looks like your python isn't being recognized, even though it > evidently exists. Under factory conditions, there is a python in /usr/ > > bin/python, but you probably installed another one (maybe MacPython). > > Hopefully this /usr/local/bin/python of yours is functional. Assuming > > it is, you could try the following command before invoking the LyX > Install script: > > defaults write ~/.MacOSX/environment PATH $PATH > > This will hopefully tell the installer what your shell path settings > are, and that you want it to find /usr/local/bin/python as you do in > the Terminal. > > That way you can (with luck) get the standard installation process to > > go through before trying LyX. > > Regards, > Jens > >
