Re: how to configure LyX
On Nov 24, 2006, at 11:34 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:51:23 -0800 Jens Noeckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, looks like your python isn't being recognized, even though it evidently exists. Under factory conditions, there is a python in / usr/ bin/python, but you probably installed another one (maybe MacPython). Hopefully this /usr/local/bin/python of yours is functional. Assuming it is, you could try the following command before invoking the LyX Install script: defaults write ~/.MacOSX/environment PATH $PATH This didn't work, maybe because I had a broken link in /usr/bin/python pointing to a non-existent link. When I got rid of the broken link and created a link to the right location, I was able to get the installer to run. I did get a red x next to preview, indicating that the right preview is not working? At any rate, I now have a working version of LyX. Thanks! Paul Hi, glad to hear it works - although the python issue is a bit mysterious... Just for completeness: I forgot to mention that the defaults command (which writes a file called .MacOSX/environment.plist) takes effect only after logging out and back in again. But that really only helps if you have set your path to point to a working python, and somehow you apparently have that now. Jens
Re: how to configure LyX
On Nov 24, 2006, at 11:34 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:51:23 -0800 Jens Noeckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, looks like your python isn't being recognized, even though it evidently exists. Under factory conditions, there is a python in / usr/ bin/python, but you probably installed another one (maybe MacPython). Hopefully this /usr/local/bin/python of yours is functional. Assuming it is, you could try the following command before invoking the LyX Install script: defaults write ~/.MacOSX/environment PATH $PATH This didn't work, maybe because I had a broken link in /usr/bin/python pointing to a non-existent link. When I got rid of the broken link and created a link to the right location, I was able to get the installer to run. I did get a red x next to preview, indicating that the right preview is not working? At any rate, I now have a working version of LyX. Thanks! Paul Hi, glad to hear it works - although the python issue is a bit mysterious... Just for completeness: I forgot to mention that the defaults command (which writes a file called .MacOSX/environment.plist) takes effect only after logging out and back in again. But that really only helps if you have set your path to point to a working python, and somehow you apparently have that now. Jens
Re: how to configure LyX
On Nov 24, 2006, at 11:34 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:51:23 -0800 Jens Noeckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul, looks like your python isn't being recognized, even though it evidently exists. Under factory conditions, there is a python in / usr/ bin/python, but you probably installed another one (maybe MacPython). Hopefully this /usr/local/bin/python of yours is functional. Assuming it is, you could try the following command before invoking the LyX Install script: defaults write ~/.MacOSX/environment PATH $PATH This didn't work, maybe because I had a broken link in /usr/bin/python pointing to a non-existent link. When I got rid of the broken link and created a link to the right location, I was able to get the installer to run. I did get a red x next to preview, indicating that the right preview is not working? At any rate, I now have a working version of LyX. Thanks! Paul Hi, glad to hear it works - although the python issue is a bit mysterious... Just for completeness: I forgot to mention that the "defaults" command (which writes a file called .MacOSX/environment.plist) takes effect only after logging out and back in again. But that really only helps if you have set your path to point to a working python, and somehow you apparently have that now. Jens
Re: how to configure LyX
On Nov 24, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: The LyX installation on a Mac OS running 3.9 is not configured properly, and I think to confiugre it should be easy. (I was not able to install LyX using the installer because of problems with the script; I started another thread on this problem, but no one can seem to answer it.) When I open up the view menu, I cannot update my file. That is, I cannot get LyX to convert it automatically to PDF of DVI. I have added the path to the preferences and reconfigured LyX, but that does not work. My latex binary is in: /usr/TeX/bin/powerpc-darwin/latex So I have added /usr/TeX/bin/powerpc-darwin: to the beginning of my path. I have then run the reconfigure commnd. But this does not seem to help. LyX cannot find latex and cannot find my classes. I have looked through the documentation and cannot find anything to help me. Hi, it's hard to say what's going on - maybe the following questions will help: since your path is not one of those listed under prerequisites at http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac#toc4 my first question would be if you have checked that pdflatex, ghostscript and imagemagick work properly outside of LyX. How did you install this TeX (manually or using some installer)? If you're sure that this is a kosher TeX installation, you could create a symbolic link as mentioned in the above link. Next, what version of LyX are you using? Your operating system is Panther, so the question arises if you had an older version of LyX installed previously. Did you run the install script for LyX? You said you added the binary path to the preferences - I'm assuming you mean the preferences in the LyX menu, under PATH prefix. Is that correct? To make sure people know which sh script you're talking about, it would probably be good to send the verbatim output from the Console or Terminal command line. Also, does View pdflatex produce any output starting with lyx in the /tmp/ directory. Is there a latex log file? Does exporting to latex or pdflatex work in the File menu? I'm sure the problem is fixable, but things are a bit too hazy at this point. Regards, Jens
Re: how to configure LyX
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:30:02 -0800 Jens Noeckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since your path is not one of those listed under prerequisites at http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac#toc4 my first question would be if you have checked that pdflatex, ghostscript and imagemagick work properly outside of LyX. How did you install this TeX (manually or using some installer)? If you're sure that this is a kosher TeX installation, you could create a symbolic link as mentioned in the above link. Okay, I didn't realize I needed ghostview and imagemagic. I am installing them right now. The version is 1.4.3. My TeX installation is kosher in that from the terminal I can type latex document and get a PDF document. I installed it with TeXLive, I believe. path to the preferences - I'm assuming you mean the preferences in the LyX menu, under PATH prefix. Is that correct? Yes, that is correct. To make sure people know which sh script you're talking about, it would probably be good to send the verbatim output from the Console or Terminal command line. I did this in a thread on 2006-11-23. The post is actually from Cynthia Johnson (whose computer I am trying to install this on). In brief, the .sh script stated that python was not found, though I have a working version of python in /usr/local/bin. Thanks for your response. I wanted to reply right away even before I downloaded ghostview because the easiest (and perhaps best) way to fix this problem is to fix the installer problem, if possible. Paul
Re: how to configure LyX
On Nov 24, 2006, at 3:56 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:30:02 -0800 Jens Noeckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since your path is not one of those listed under prerequisites at http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac#toc4 my first question would be if you have checked that pdflatex, ghostscript and imagemagick work properly outside of LyX. How did you install this TeX (manually or using some installer)? If you're sure that this is a kosher TeX installation, you could create a symbolic link as mentioned in the above link. Okay, I didn't realize I needed ghostview and imagemagic. I am installing them right now. The version is 1.4.3. My TeX installation is kosher in that from the terminal I can type latex document and get a PDF document. I installed it with TeXLive, I believe. path to the preferences - I'm assuming you mean the preferences in the LyX menu, under PATH prefix. Is that correct? Yes, that is correct. To make sure people know which sh script you're talking about, it would probably be good to send the verbatim output from the Console or Terminal command line. I did this in a thread on 2006-11-23. The post is actually from Cynthia Johnson (whose computer I am trying to install this on). In brief, the .sh script stated that python was not found, though I have a working version of python in /usr/local/bin. Thanks for your response. I wanted to reply right away even before I downloaded ghostview because the easiest (and perhaps best) way to fix this problem is to fix the installer problem, if possible. Paul Paul, looks like your python isn't being recognized, even though it evidently exists. Under factory conditions, there is a python in /usr/ bin/python, but you probably installed another one (maybe MacPython). Hopefully this /usr/local/bin/python of yours is functional. Assuming it is, you could try the following command before invoking the LyX Install script: defaults write ~/.MacOSX/environment PATH $PATH This will hopefully tell the installer what your shell path settings are, and that you want it to find /usr/local/bin/python as you do in the Terminal. That way you can (with luck) get the standard installation process to go through before trying LyX. Regards, Jens
Re: how to configure LyX
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:51:23 -0800 Jens Noeckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks again Jens. I will try this in a bit. In the mean time I wanted to report (in case this is valuable to anyone else), that I was able to reconfigure LyX with some success. What I did is create a soft link in /usr/local/bin to the my executable. I didn't think I had to do this because I added the path in the preferences in LyX, but adding the path didn't work. When I tried to view a document using pdflatex, I got a message stating that /tmp/xxxlyx/xxlyx/myfile.pdf could not be found. I went to the directory and found the file myfile.tex and typed pdflatex myfile.tex Some defaults had to run in pdflatex, as if pdflatex was a first run. Then the document was created. When I went back to LyX and tried to view the document in view, I had success. The only problem I have now is that if I modify the document, I cannot update it. I think this problem is different. On my linux machine you can update PDF documents in the PDF viewer, but I know you can't do this in Mac. Since Mac uses Adobe, the file cannot be updated. So I need to find another viewer like ghostview. I have ghostview installed, but it requires X11 (which is also installed), so I may have to use X11 as my viewer. I will let you know how the installation goes when I change that variable. I could also create a soft link to the place where python is expected, couldn't I? Paul On Nov 24, 2006, at 3:56 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:30:02 -0800 Jens Noeckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since your path is not one of those listed under prerequisites at http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac#toc4 my first question would be if you have checked that pdflatex, ghostscript and imagemagick work properly outside of LyX. How did you install this TeX (manually or using some installer)? If you're sure that this is a kosher TeX installation, you could create a symbolic link as mentioned in the above link. Okay, I didn't realize I needed ghostview and imagemagic. I am installing them right now. The version is 1.4.3. My TeX installation is kosher in that from the terminal I can type latex document and get a PDF document. I installed it with TeXLive, I believe. path to the preferences - I'm assuming you mean the preferences in the LyX menu, under PATH prefix. Is that correct? Yes, that is correct. To make sure people know which sh script you're talking about, it would probably be good to send the verbatim output from the Console or Terminal command line. I did this in a thread on 2006-11-23. The post is actually from Cynthia Johnson (whose computer I am trying to install this on). In brief, the .sh script stated that python was not found, though I have a working version of python in /usr/local/bin. Thanks for your response. I wanted to reply right away even before I downloaded ghostview because the easiest (and perhaps best) way to fix this problem is to fix the installer problem, if possible. Paul Paul, looks like your python isn't being recognized, even though it evidently exists. Under factory conditions, there is a python in /usr/ bin/python, but you probably installed another one (maybe MacPython). Hopefully this /usr/local/bin/python of yours is functional. Assuming it is, you could try the following command before invoking the LyX Install script: defaults write ~/.MacOSX/environment PATH $PATH This will hopefully tell the installer what your shell path settings are, and that you want it to find /usr/local/bin/python as you do in the Terminal. That way you can (with luck) get the standard installation process to go through before trying LyX. Regards, Jens
Re: how to configure LyX
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:51:23 -0800 Jens Noeckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, looks like your python isn't being recognized, even though it evidently exists. Under factory conditions, there is a python in /usr/ bin/python, but you probably installed another one (maybe MacPython). Hopefully this /usr/local/bin/python of yours is functional. Assuming it is, you could try the following command before invoking the LyX Install script: defaults write ~/.MacOSX/environment PATH $PATH This didn't work, maybe because I had a broken link in /usr/bin/python pointing to a non-existent link. When I got rid of the broken link and created a link to the right location, I was able to get the installer to run. I did get a red x next to preview, indicating that the right preview is not working? At any rate, I now have a working version of LyX. Thanks! Paul
Re: how to configure LyX
On Nov 24, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: The LyX installation on a Mac OS running 3.9 is not configured properly, and I think to confiugre it should be easy. (I was not able to install LyX using the installer because of problems with the script; I started another thread on this problem, but no one can seem to answer it.) When I open up the view menu, I cannot update my file. That is, I cannot get LyX to convert it automatically to PDF of DVI. I have added the path to the preferences and reconfigured LyX, but that does not work. My latex binary is in: /usr/TeX/bin/powerpc-darwin/latex So I have added /usr/TeX/bin/powerpc-darwin: to the beginning of my path. I have then run the reconfigure commnd. But this does not seem to help. LyX cannot find latex and cannot find my classes. I have looked through the documentation and cannot find anything to help me. Hi, it's hard to say what's going on - maybe the following questions will help: since your path is not one of those listed under prerequisites at http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac#toc4 my first question would be if you have checked that pdflatex, ghostscript and imagemagick work properly outside of LyX. How did you install this TeX (manually or using some installer)? If you're sure that this is a kosher TeX installation, you could create a symbolic link as mentioned in the above link. Next, what version of LyX are you using? Your operating system is Panther, so the question arises if you had an older version of LyX installed previously. Did you run the install script for LyX? You said you added the binary path to the preferences - I'm assuming you mean the preferences in the LyX menu, under PATH prefix. Is that correct? To make sure people know which sh script you're talking about, it would probably be good to send the verbatim output from the Console or Terminal command line. Also, does View pdflatex produce any output starting with lyx in the /tmp/ directory. Is there a latex log file? Does exporting to latex or pdflatex work in the File menu? I'm sure the problem is fixable, but things are a bit too hazy at this point. Regards, Jens
Re: how to configure LyX
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:30:02 -0800 Jens Noeckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since your path is not one of those listed under prerequisites at http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac#toc4 my first question would be if you have checked that pdflatex, ghostscript and imagemagick work properly outside of LyX. How did you install this TeX (manually or using some installer)? If you're sure that this is a kosher TeX installation, you could create a symbolic link as mentioned in the above link. Okay, I didn't realize I needed ghostview and imagemagic. I am installing them right now. The version is 1.4.3. My TeX installation is kosher in that from the terminal I can type latex document and get a PDF document. I installed it with TeXLive, I believe. path to the preferences - I'm assuming you mean the preferences in the LyX menu, under PATH prefix. Is that correct? Yes, that is correct. To make sure people know which sh script you're talking about, it would probably be good to send the verbatim output from the Console or Terminal command line. I did this in a thread on 2006-11-23. The post is actually from Cynthia Johnson (whose computer I am trying to install this on). In brief, the .sh script stated that python was not found, though I have a working version of python in /usr/local/bin. Thanks for your response. I wanted to reply right away even before I downloaded ghostview because the easiest (and perhaps best) way to fix this problem is to fix the installer problem, if possible. Paul
Re: how to configure LyX
On Nov 24, 2006, at 3:56 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:30:02 -0800 Jens Noeckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since your path is not one of those listed under prerequisites at http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac#toc4 my first question would be if you have checked that pdflatex, ghostscript and imagemagick work properly outside of LyX. How did you install this TeX (manually or using some installer)? If you're sure that this is a kosher TeX installation, you could create a symbolic link as mentioned in the above link. Okay, I didn't realize I needed ghostview and imagemagic. I am installing them right now. The version is 1.4.3. My TeX installation is kosher in that from the terminal I can type latex document and get a PDF document. I installed it with TeXLive, I believe. path to the preferences - I'm assuming you mean the preferences in the LyX menu, under PATH prefix. Is that correct? Yes, that is correct. To make sure people know which sh script you're talking about, it would probably be good to send the verbatim output from the Console or Terminal command line. I did this in a thread on 2006-11-23. The post is actually from Cynthia Johnson (whose computer I am trying to install this on). In brief, the .sh script stated that python was not found, though I have a working version of python in /usr/local/bin. Thanks for your response. I wanted to reply right away even before I downloaded ghostview because the easiest (and perhaps best) way to fix this problem is to fix the installer problem, if possible. Paul Paul, looks like your python isn't being recognized, even though it evidently exists. Under factory conditions, there is a python in /usr/ bin/python, but you probably installed another one (maybe MacPython). Hopefully this /usr/local/bin/python of yours is functional. Assuming it is, you could try the following command before invoking the LyX Install script: defaults write ~/.MacOSX/environment PATH $PATH This will hopefully tell the installer what your shell path settings are, and that you want it to find /usr/local/bin/python as you do in the Terminal. That way you can (with luck) get the standard installation process to go through before trying LyX. Regards, Jens
Re: how to configure LyX
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:51:23 -0800 Jens Noeckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks again Jens. I will try this in a bit. In the mean time I wanted to report (in case this is valuable to anyone else), that I was able to reconfigure LyX with some success. What I did is create a soft link in /usr/local/bin to the my executable. I didn't think I had to do this because I added the path in the preferences in LyX, but adding the path didn't work. When I tried to view a document using pdflatex, I got a message stating that /tmp/xxxlyx/xxlyx/myfile.pdf could not be found. I went to the directory and found the file myfile.tex and typed pdflatex myfile.tex Some defaults had to run in pdflatex, as if pdflatex was a first run. Then the document was created. When I went back to LyX and tried to view the document in view, I had success. The only problem I have now is that if I modify the document, I cannot update it. I think this problem is different. On my linux machine you can update PDF documents in the PDF viewer, but I know you can't do this in Mac. Since Mac uses Adobe, the file cannot be updated. So I need to find another viewer like ghostview. I have ghostview installed, but it requires X11 (which is also installed), so I may have to use X11 as my viewer. I will let you know how the installation goes when I change that variable. I could also create a soft link to the place where python is expected, couldn't I? Paul On Nov 24, 2006, at 3:56 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:30:02 -0800 Jens Noeckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since your path is not one of those listed under prerequisites at http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac#toc4 my first question would be if you have checked that pdflatex, ghostscript and imagemagick work properly outside of LyX. How did you install this TeX (manually or using some installer)? If you're sure that this is a kosher TeX installation, you could create a symbolic link as mentioned in the above link. Okay, I didn't realize I needed ghostview and imagemagic. I am installing them right now. The version is 1.4.3. My TeX installation is kosher in that from the terminal I can type latex document and get a PDF document. I installed it with TeXLive, I believe. path to the preferences - I'm assuming you mean the preferences in the LyX menu, under PATH prefix. Is that correct? Yes, that is correct. To make sure people know which sh script you're talking about, it would probably be good to send the verbatim output from the Console or Terminal command line. I did this in a thread on 2006-11-23. The post is actually from Cynthia Johnson (whose computer I am trying to install this on). In brief, the .sh script stated that python was not found, though I have a working version of python in /usr/local/bin. Thanks for your response. I wanted to reply right away even before I downloaded ghostview because the easiest (and perhaps best) way to fix this problem is to fix the installer problem, if possible. Paul Paul, looks like your python isn't being recognized, even though it evidently exists. Under factory conditions, there is a python in /usr/ bin/python, but you probably installed another one (maybe MacPython). Hopefully this /usr/local/bin/python of yours is functional. Assuming it is, you could try the following command before invoking the LyX Install script: defaults write ~/.MacOSX/environment PATH $PATH This will hopefully tell the installer what your shell path settings are, and that you want it to find /usr/local/bin/python as you do in the Terminal. That way you can (with luck) get the standard installation process to go through before trying LyX. Regards, Jens
Re: how to configure LyX
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:51:23 -0800 Jens Noeckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, looks like your python isn't being recognized, even though it evidently exists. Under factory conditions, there is a python in /usr/ bin/python, but you probably installed another one (maybe MacPython). Hopefully this /usr/local/bin/python of yours is functional. Assuming it is, you could try the following command before invoking the LyX Install script: defaults write ~/.MacOSX/environment PATH $PATH This didn't work, maybe because I had a broken link in /usr/bin/python pointing to a non-existent link. When I got rid of the broken link and created a link to the right location, I was able to get the installer to run. I did get a red x next to preview, indicating that the right preview is not working? At any rate, I now have a working version of LyX. Thanks! Paul
Re: how to configure LyX
On Nov 24, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: The LyX installation on a Mac OS running 3.9 is not configured properly, and I think to confiugre it should be easy. (I was not able to install LyX using the installer because of problems with the script; I started another thread on this problem, but no one can seem to answer it.) When I open up the view menu, I cannot update my file. That is, I cannot get LyX to convert it automatically to PDF of DVI. I have added the path to the preferences and reconfigured LyX, but that does not work. My latex binary is in: /usr/TeX/bin/powerpc-darwin/latex So I have added /usr/TeX/bin/powerpc-darwin: to the beginning of my path. I have then run the reconfigure commnd. But this does not seem to help. LyX cannot find latex and cannot find my classes. I have looked through the documentation and cannot find anything to help me. Hi, it's hard to say what's going on - maybe the following questions will help: since your path is not one of those listed under "prerequisites" at http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac#toc4 my first question would be if you have checked that pdflatex, ghostscript and imagemagick work properly outside of LyX. How did you install this TeX (manually or using some installer)? If you're sure that this is a kosher TeX installation, you could create a symbolic link as mentioned in the above link. Next, what version of LyX are you using? Your operating system is Panther, so the question arises if you had an older version of LyX installed previously. Did you run the install script for LyX? You said you added the binary path to the preferences - I'm assuming you mean the preferences in the LyX menu, under "PATH prefix". Is that correct? To make sure people know which sh script you're talking about, it would probably be good to send the verbatim output from the Console or Terminal command line. Also, does "View > pdflatex" produce any output starting with "lyx" in the /tmp/ directory. Is there a latex log file? Does exporting to latex or pdflatex work in the File menu? I'm sure the problem is fixable, but things are a bit too hazy at this point. Regards, Jens
Re: how to configure LyX
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:30:02 -0800 Jens Noeckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > since your path is not one of those listed under "prerequisites" at > http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac#toc4 > my first question would be if you have checked that pdflatex, > ghostscript and imagemagick work properly outside of LyX. How did you > > install this TeX (manually or using some installer)? If you're sure > that this is a kosher TeX installation, you could create a symbolic > link as mentioned in the above link. Okay, I didn't realize I needed ghostview and imagemagic. I am installing them right now. The version is 1.4.3. My TeX installation is "kosher" in that from the terminal I can type "latex " and get a PDF document. I installed it with TeXLive, I believe. > path to the preferences - I'm assuming you mean the preferences in > the LyX menu, under "PATH prefix". Is that correct? Yes, that is correct. > > To make sure people know which sh script you're talking about, it > would probably be good to send the verbatim output from the Console > or Terminal command line. I did this in a thread on 2006-11-23. The post is actually from Cynthia Johnson (whose computer I am trying to install this on). In brief, the .sh script stated that python was not found, though I have a working version of python in /usr/local/bin. Thanks for your response. I wanted to reply right away even before I downloaded ghostview because the easiest (and perhaps best) way to fix this problem is to fix the installer problem, if possible. Paul
Re: how to configure LyX
On Nov 24, 2006, at 3:56 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:30:02 -0800 Jens Noeckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: since your path is not one of those listed under "prerequisites" at http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac#toc4 my first question would be if you have checked that pdflatex, ghostscript and imagemagick work properly outside of LyX. How did you install this TeX (manually or using some installer)? If you're sure that this is a kosher TeX installation, you could create a symbolic link as mentioned in the above link. Okay, I didn't realize I needed ghostview and imagemagic. I am installing them right now. The version is 1.4.3. My TeX installation is "kosher" in that from the terminal I can type "latex " and get a PDF document. I installed it with TeXLive, I believe. path to the preferences - I'm assuming you mean the preferences in the LyX menu, under "PATH prefix". Is that correct? Yes, that is correct. To make sure people know which sh script you're talking about, it would probably be good to send the verbatim output from the Console or Terminal command line. I did this in a thread on 2006-11-23. The post is actually from Cynthia Johnson (whose computer I am trying to install this on). In brief, the .sh script stated that python was not found, though I have a working version of python in /usr/local/bin. Thanks for your response. I wanted to reply right away even before I downloaded ghostview because the easiest (and perhaps best) way to fix this problem is to fix the installer problem, if possible. Paul Paul, looks like your python isn't being recognized, even though it evidently exists. Under factory conditions, there is a python in /usr/ bin/python, but you probably installed another one (maybe MacPython). Hopefully this /usr/local/bin/python of yours is functional. Assuming it is, you could try the following command before invoking the LyX Install script: defaults write ~/.MacOSX/environment PATH $PATH This will hopefully tell the installer what your shell path settings are, and that you want it to find /usr/local/bin/python as you do in the Terminal. That way you can (with luck) get the standard installation process to go through before trying LyX. Regards, Jens
Re: how to configure LyX
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:51:23 -0800 Jens Noeckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks again Jens. I will try this in a bit. In the mean time I wanted to report (in case this is valuable to anyone else), that I was able to reconfigure LyX with some success. What I did is create a soft link in /usr/local/bin to the my executable. I didn't think I had to do this because I added the path in the preferences in LyX, but adding the path didn't work. When I tried to view a document using pdflatex, I got a message stating that /tmp/xxxlyx/xxlyx/myfile.pdf could not be found. I went to the directory and found the file myfile.tex and typed pdflatex myfile.tex Some defaults had to run in pdflatex, as if pdflatex was a first run. Then the document was created. When I went back to LyX and tried to view the document in view, I had success. The only problem I have now is that if I modify the document, I cannot update it. I think this problem is different. On my linux machine you can update PDF documents in the PDF viewer, but I know you can't do this in Mac. Since Mac uses Adobe, the file cannot be updated. So I need to find another viewer like ghostview. I have ghostview installed, but it requires X11 (which is also installed), so I may have to use X11 as my viewer. I will let you know how the installation goes when I change that variable. I could also create a soft link to the place where python is expected, couldn't I? Paul > > On Nov 24, 2006, at 3:56 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:30:02 -0800 > > Jens Noeckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >> since your path is not one of those listed under "prerequisites" at > >> http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac#toc4 > >> my first question would be if you have checked that pdflatex, > >> ghostscript and imagemagick work properly outside of LyX. How did > >you > > >> install this TeX (manually or using some installer)? If you're sure > >> that this is a kosher TeX installation, you could create a symbolic > >> link as mentioned in the above link. > > > > Okay, I didn't realize I needed ghostview and imagemagic. I am > > installing them right now. The version is 1.4.3. My TeX > > installation is > > "kosher" in that from the terminal I can type "latex " > > and get > > a PDF document. I installed it with TeXLive, I believe. > > > >> path to the preferences - I'm assuming you mean the preferences in > >> the LyX menu, under "PATH prefix". Is that correct? > > > > Yes, that is correct. > > > >> > >> To make sure people know which sh script you're talking about, it > >> would probably be good to send the verbatim output from the Console > >> or Terminal command line. > > > > I did this in a thread on 2006-11-23. The post is actually from > > Cynthia > > Johnson (whose computer I am trying to install this on). In brief, > > the .sh script stated that python was not found, though I have a > > working version of python in /usr/local/bin. > > > > Thanks for your response. I wanted to reply right away even before I > > downloaded ghostview because the easiest (and perhaps best) way to > > fix this problem is to fix the installer problem, if possible. > > > > Paul > > > > > > Paul, > > looks like your python isn't being recognized, even though it > evidently exists. Under factory conditions, there is a python in /usr/ > > bin/python, but you probably installed another one (maybe MacPython). > > Hopefully this /usr/local/bin/python of yours is functional. Assuming > > it is, you could try the following command before invoking the LyX > Install script: > > defaults write ~/.MacOSX/environment PATH $PATH > > This will hopefully tell the installer what your shell path settings > are, and that you want it to find /usr/local/bin/python as you do in > the Terminal. > > That way you can (with luck) get the standard installation process to > > go through before trying LyX. > > Regards, > Jens > >
Re: how to configure LyX
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:51:23 -0800 Jens Noeckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Paul, > > looks like your python isn't being recognized, even though it > evidently exists. Under factory conditions, there is a python in /usr/ > > bin/python, but you probably installed another one (maybe MacPython). > > Hopefully this /usr/local/bin/python of yours is functional. Assuming > > it is, you could try the following command before invoking the LyX > Install script: > > defaults write ~/.MacOSX/environment PATH $PATH This didn't work, maybe because I had a broken link in /usr/bin/python pointing to a non-existent link. When I got rid of the broken link and created a link to the right location, I was able to get the installer to run. I did get a red x next to preview, indicating that the right preview is not working? At any rate, I now have a working version of LyX. Thanks! Paul
