On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > An untimely computer crash brought me to Ubuntu 11.04, which brought > me to LyX 2.0.0rc3. > > Ctrl+D says "successful DVD preview, but does nothing. The View menu > gives no ps2pdf choice, and when I click the "View other formats" > choice, nothing opens up, even though I configured PDF and DVI in > Tools->Preferences->Output->General on the PDF and DVI commands. > > Ctrl+D brings up an error dialog box saying "Could not display > \"/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.T11314/lyx_tmpbuf2/junk.dvi", the location is not a > directory. When I directly run that file (it exists) with xdvi, it > displays more or less correctly. > > What am I doing wrong? > Ubuntu ships the wrong version. See this recent discussion [1][2]. See these instructions [3] on how to push the update to your system (never tried it). Alternatively, Rainer and Rob have come up with a PPA containing LyX 2.0.0. Contact me off-list for the link.
Regards Liviu [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg169893.html [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg169963.html [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed
