Martin Görg wrote:
Hello there,
I'm a fan of LyX but sometimes it gets me going :)
I open the LyX User's Guide (or any other document) and klick on a
reference. The pop-up dialog is empty showing none of the existing
labels and when I click 'Update' LyX crashes with the message
"lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught".
I'm afraid something is messed up with my setup, although I specifically
followed the instructions on the WiKi. The packaged LyX of my Ubuntu
8.10 Intrepid is old. I want the great new intellisense stuff of 1.6.*.
Furthermore, the Wiki and other sources recommend texlive instead of the
default tetex or whatever is installed by default (anyway not the recent
2008 version). I closely followed the instructions from the official
texlive 2008 documentation to perform the network installation over
internet. Next, I wanted to install LyX. I did so using the packages
from getdeb from this link: http://www.getdeb.net/app/LyX. From there I
installed the lyx-common and lyx packages. Everything seemed smooth
until I ran into the described error.
Can someone help me, please? I'm a bit of a Linux newbie coming from
Windows. Ah, and I run Gnome. I remember reading somewhere that LyX is
best with KDE. Is that true (without getting into the Gnome vs. KDE topic)?
Intending no offense whatsoever...if you're new to Linux, then it may be
a good idea to stick with the official packages for your distro. I know
that means foregoing the advantages of coolprog new.0, but it also means
not running into weird problems.
And 1.6.1 is available in intrepid-backports:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid-backports/lyx.
rh
