On Thursday 22 May 2008 02:26, Tim Brown wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 May 2008 13:54:19 John Chajecki wrote:
> > 1. The OpenVAS client seems to clash with with Cygwin and refuses to
> > launch when Cygwin is active. We have installed OpenVAS client 1.0.3 on
> > Windows.
>
> Not sure about that, I would wait and see what other people say on the
> subject. Jan is often a good bet since he builds the Windows client.
I've heard about this type of problem once, quite a long time ago.
IIRC, the Cygwin versions clashed somehow.
Is this a general problem of two cygwin applications on the same machine
or more a specfic problem of the OpenVAS build method?
> > 2. We downloaded the manua but we can't read it. It seems to be written
> > with something called LyX. We have downloaded LyX and we now have a
> > pretty LyX associated with users-manual.lyx but when we click on it
> > nothing appeared to happen. About 5 minutes later however, a web browser
> > like window suddenly opened up on the desktop with the manual displayed.
> > I realise this may be a LyX issue, but why can't the manuals be written
> > in a common file format like html or PDF rather than some obscure format
> > that no one has heard of (yes - I have asked around!)?
In fact the PDF manual should open up if you click the respective menu item
in the OpenVAS-Client GUI.
> The markup format we use for the manual is LaTeX. This is a pretty common,
> open format which is heavily within the science and technology community.
> Having said that, it's main use here is to allow the generation of HTML and
> PDFs from a single source. Maybe it would be worth updating the relevant
> packages to generate one of those formats as part of the distribution
> process. I think it's a fair point that end users shouldn't have to rely
> on having LyX (or another LaTeX editor) installed to use OpenVAS. Thoughts
> anyone?
Well, currently LyX is only needed for modifying the manual. Just reading,
a PDF viewer is sufficient.
Best
Jan
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