> > Could you give a quick install instruction set from a .tar.gz. I'm using > Ubuntu and I've never compiled from source. I've read through the install > instructions and I think I have everything needed for the install, but I'm > not sure what the next steps are.
Sure. I didn't have much difficulty installing 1.5.0beta1 on this machine as it pretty much went according to the instructions in "install" file in the archive. If you are installing an older version, I found that I had to type export=QTDIR /usr/share/qt3/ before compiling. DON'T do this if you ARE installing 1.5.x I'll presume that you are installing 1.50beta1 to Ubuntu. Simply use whatever archiving program is setup on your program to extract the .tar.gz file into your. Then from the command line, cd into that directory. Ideally when building a program on Ubuntu, you would have to type: ./configure make sudo make install As LyX is a large program that makes use of many different packages, there might be a bit of extra complication in the case of building Lyx. When you first type ./configure, the build tools will check your system for all of the prerequisites of that program. Don't be put off if it stops at this stage. Just make a note of what it says that it needs and try to find it in the Ubuntu package manager. So for example, if ./configure stops with a message like "unable to find libQT4" search the packages for libqt4 and install anything that looks useful. When building from source, it's often "-dev" versions of packages that the compiler is looking for. You can't really go wrong; worst case is that you'll install something that wasn't really essential. I did: ./configure --with-version-suffix to give this version a unique name and set of install directories so that it wouldn't overwrite another version of Lyx. This means that the name of the LyX executable is "lyx-1.5.0beta1". I can type that to launch it or assign a KDE quick start icon to that command. If you get stuck, post back here. -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk - about me, music, geek sitcom etc. http://www.unmusic.co.uk/amhs/ - alt.music.home-studio
