I compiled lyx 1.4.4 from source in Dapper. I got the error below. This was fixed by moving ~/.lyx out of the way. I just thought I'd mention it in case anyone else had the same problem.
LyX: reconfiguring user directory Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py", line 759, in ? log = open(logfile, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'configure.log' if I manually run "/usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py", configure works, but does not fix ~/.lyx, so manually running configure was not enough to allow me to run lyx. -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia
