José Matos wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 1:40:34 pm Guy Hindell wrote:
I need to get lyx1.4.2 running on redhat el3 (don't ask why). Having
fetched the sources (I couldn't find an rpm ready to go) and sorted out
the dependencies (qt etc.) I went for a "configure; make" and the build
ran off without a hitch.
But...
on running up the binary something fails as LyX prepares it's
configuration...
+checking for "sgml2lyx"... yes
checking for SGML-tools 2.x (DocBook) or db2x scripts...
+checking for "sgmltools"... no
+checking for "db2dvi"... yes
Checking whether TeX allows spaces in file names...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/devuser/public/lyx-1.4.2/lib/configure.py", line 705, in ?
checkTeXAllowSpaces()
File "/home/devuser/public/lyx-1.4.2/lib/configure.py", line 635, in
checkTeXAllowSpaces
if 'working' in latex_out:
TypeError: 'in <string>' requires character as left operand
LyX: Done!
LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file `'. Exiting.
Can anyone help me out with this?
What is the python version that runs with EL-3?
I suspect this is the problem. :-(
guy
It's 2.2.3. However, happily I just tried a build of LyX 1.4.3 (I
probably should have started with that anyhow) and that runs up OK even
with that older python version.
cheers
guy
