Hi! Thanks a lot, Bob.
You wrote: > > This doesn't have to do with qt4. For some reason, the lyx2lyx program is > > apparently not being copied to its installed location. I'd have a look at > > /usr/local/share/lyx and see what you have there. Is something preventing > > the copy? > Actually after the installation failure, there is no "lyx" directory left in the /usr/local/share. > > > The other thing that strikes me is the fact that you have a space in the > > path to the sources" "My Downloads". It's possible that make is choking > on > > that. Try moving the tree somewhere else, with no spaces. > Yes. After moving the tree somewhere else, the installation has succeeded. > > This may be a stupid comment, but I'll make it anyway. > > You are running 'make install' as root right? Or in Ubuntu, I guess > that would be 'sudo make install'. > Actually, it is me who has failed to mention that I was making a root install. Your comment is not stupid at all, Bob. Anyhow thanks a lot for your kind help. with all regards Ven. Pandita
