> Pavel Sanda wrote: >>> On Saturday 18 October 2008 07:38:24 pm Pavel Sanda wrote: >>> If you were thinking of upgrading to the latest version of your distro, >>> this would be an excellent time to do so. I had horrid problems compiling >>> 1.5.x on Mandriva 2007, but on Mandriva 2008 it compiled effortlessly >>> because Mandriva 2008 had the necessary version of qt4. >>> >>> HTH >>> >> >> i fear this is more problematic case than qt4 things, the error logs >> indicated >> that also X window libraries are missing. >> >> > I'd guess that the problem is that the header files are missing. He was > compiling on Knoppix, which is of course a live CD, and I don't know what > package management is available there. So getting the headers may be > somewhat difficult.
ahh i missed that its knoppix. maybe its time to start thinking about knoppix-based CD with texlive & lyx 1.6 so people can use live system with lyx without any install needs... pavel
