Thanks Scott, it was solved. My path had a relative reference to the location of Maple (in my user folder) instead of the absolute path.
Now it works like a charm. Regards. ------------------------------------------------- Julio Rojas [email protected] On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Julio Rojas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So, two things: something called "mint" is not found, nor is maple. > > Nevertheless, if I run Maple from the command line it runs perfectly. > > mint appears to be a part of Maple: > http://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/Maple/view.aspx?path=mint > > Judging from LyX's code (see MathExtern.cpp), LyX is just using mint > to make sure that the string is correct syntax: > > lyxerr << "checking expr: '" << expr << "'" << endl; > string out = captureOutput("mint -i 1 -S -s -q -q", expr + ';'); > if (out.empty()) > break; // expression syntax is ok > > > > Are > > there two PATH variables, one for the terminal and one for the Ubuntu > > graphic environment? May be this is the problem. > > There should be only one PATH. It is inherited from the parent > process. It is possible that the parents have different paths. To > check this you could start LyX from the same terminal that you ran > maple from (which you said succeeded), as opposed to starting LyX from > a menu which would lead to a different parent. > > I don't think I'm going to be of much help since I only use Maxima. > > Good luck, > > Scott >
