Re: Ubuntu: keep lyx 2.2.3 and 2.3.1 in same system
On 4/11/18 4:35 am, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 10/13/18, Paul Johnson wrote: I have some projects based on LyX 2.2.3 that I want to work on and I don't want to update to new. However, I also have projects based on 2.3 and I can't edit those with old LyX. Liviu Andronic worked out a way for this to be possible a few years ago, but I cannot find documents about it. I wish I could have old and new lyx installed at same time, to easily run one or the other. I've tried to do this by installing 2.3.1 from the Ubuntu package and then compiling 2.2.3 from source and installing off the path, but then I found the 2 versions should not share a user configuration folder. After using 2.3.1 and allowing it to revise ~/.lyx, then lyx 2.2.3 cannot start. Error like this: I didn't continue doing the previous stable release packages as a separate install (like I did for 1.6 and 2.0) as it didn't seem like there was enough demand. I may reconsider this going forward. If you're building from source, it's very easy to achieve this, and you would only need to use this argument when configuring, e.g.: --with-version-suffix=2.2 This will take care of most things, like renaming the binary to 'lyx2.2', the share and home folders to 'lyx2.2', etc. It works surprisingly well. You should even be able to do make install, and in principle it shouldn't clash with the existing install from the PPA. Although it's necessarily more complicated, for inspiration you can always take a look at, e.g., the lyx2.0 packages. Just fetch e.g.: lyx2.0_2.0.8.1-2~trusty~ppa1.debian.tar.gz and inspect the 'debian/rules' file. It will list the config options. Regards, Liviu $ ./lyx Warning: Could not read configuration file Error while reading the configuration file preferences. Please check your installation. So obviously I need to be more graceful, separate config folders. I thought about building a new Debian package "lyx223". I'm pretty sure that's what I think Liviu did. For me that was a fail because the deb packaging code for the lyx project has a lot of hard coded folders like /usr/share/lyx, so it is not too easy to rebuild a package to use alternate folders. If you have advice about this, I would be glad to hear it. -- Paul E. Johnson http://pj.freefaculty.org Director, Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis http://crmda.ku.edu To write to me directly, please address me at pauljohn at ku.edu. And consider using GNU Stow. It makes it easy to manage installation and removal of compiled packages. Cheers, Alan -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan
Re: Ubuntu: keep lyx 2.2.3 and 2.3.1 in same system
On 10/13/18, Paul Johnson wrote: > I have some projects based on LyX 2.2.3 that I want to work on and I > don't want to update to new. However, I also have projects based on > 2.3 and I can't edit those with old LyX. > > Liviu Andronic worked out a way for this to be possible a few years > ago, but I cannot find documents about it. I wish I could have old and > new lyx installed at same time, to easily run one or the other. > I've tried to do this by installing 2.3.1 from the Ubuntu package and > then compiling 2.2.3 from source and installing off the path, but then > I found the 2 versions should not share a user configuration folder. > After using 2.3.1 and allowing it to revise ~/.lyx, then lyx 2.2.3 > cannot start. Error like this: > I didn't continue doing the previous stable release packages as a separate install (like I did for 1.6 and 2.0) as it didn't seem like there was enough demand. I may reconsider this going forward. If you're building from source, it's very easy to achieve this, and you would only need to use this argument when configuring, e.g.: --with-version-suffix=2.2 This will take care of most things, like renaming the binary to 'lyx2.2', the share and home folders to 'lyx2.2', etc. It works surprisingly well. You should even be able to do make install, and in principle it shouldn't clash with the existing install from the PPA. Although it's necessarily more complicated, for inspiration you can always take a look at, e.g., the lyx2.0 packages. Just fetch e.g.: lyx2.0_2.0.8.1-2~trusty~ppa1.debian.tar.gz and inspect the 'debian/rules' file. It will list the config options. Regards, Liviu > $ ./lyx > Warning: Could not read configuration file > > Error while reading the configuration file > preferences. > Please check your installation. > > So obviously I need to be more graceful, separate config folders. > > I thought about building a new Debian package "lyx223". I'm pretty > sure that's what I think Liviu did. For me that was a fail because > the deb packaging code for the lyx project has a lot of hard coded > folders like /usr/share/lyx, so it is not too easy to rebuild a > package to use alternate folders. > > If you have advice about this, I would be glad to hear it. > > -- > Paul E. Johnson http://pj.freefaculty.org > Director, Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis http://crmda.ku.edu > > To write to me directly, please address me at pauljohn at ku.edu. >
Re: Ubuntu: keep lyx 2.2.3 and 2.3.1 in same system
On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 01:55:09PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > 1. Start LyX 2.3 the usual way and start LyX 2.2.3 with >"/lyx -userdir ". +1 you could create an alias that makes this easy. Scott signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Ubuntu: keep lyx 2.2.3 and 2.3.1 in same system
On 10/13/2018 01:24 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: I have some projects based on LyX 2.2.3 that I want to work on and I don't want to update to new. However, I also have projects based on 2.3 and I can't edit those with old LyX. Liviu Andronic worked out a way for this to be possible a few years ago, but I cannot find documents about it. I wish I could have old and new lyx installed at same time, to easily run one or the other. I've tried to do this by installing 2.3.1 from the Ubuntu package and then compiling 2.2.3 from source and installing off the path, but then I found the 2 versions should not share a user configuration folder. After using 2.3.1 and allowing it to revise ~/.lyx, then lyx 2.2.3 cannot start. Error like this: $ ./lyx Warning: Could not read configuration file Error while reading the configuration file preferences. Please check your installation. So obviously I need to be more graceful, separate config folders. I thought about building a new Debian package "lyx223". I'm pretty sure that's what I think Liviu did. For me that was a fail because the deb packaging code for the lyx project has a lot of hard coded folders like /usr/share/lyx, so it is not too easy to rebuild a package to use alternate folders. If you have advice about this, I would be glad to hear it. Two thoughts (both untested): 1. Start LyX 2.3 the usual way and start LyX 2.2.3 with "/lyx -userdir ". 2. Create a new user on computer just for LyX 2.2.3, install 2.2.3 as that user (or manually move the ~/.lyx folder for 2.2.3 to that user) and log in as that user when using 2.2.3. Paul (the original one)
Ubuntu: keep lyx 2.2.3 and 2.3.1 in same system
I have some projects based on LyX 2.2.3 that I want to work on and I don't want to update to new. However, I also have projects based on 2.3 and I can't edit those with old LyX. Liviu Andronic worked out a way for this to be possible a few years ago, but I cannot find documents about it. I wish I could have old and new lyx installed at same time, to easily run one or the other. I've tried to do this by installing 2.3.1 from the Ubuntu package and then compiling 2.2.3 from source and installing off the path, but then I found the 2 versions should not share a user configuration folder. After using 2.3.1 and allowing it to revise ~/.lyx, then lyx 2.2.3 cannot start. Error like this: $ ./lyx Warning: Could not read configuration file Error while reading the configuration file preferences. Please check your installation. So obviously I need to be more graceful, separate config folders. I thought about building a new Debian package "lyx223". I'm pretty sure that's what I think Liviu did. For me that was a fail because the deb packaging code for the lyx project has a lot of hard coded folders like /usr/share/lyx, so it is not too easy to rebuild a package to use alternate folders. If you have advice about this, I would be glad to hear it. -- Paul E. Johnson http://pj.freefaculty.org Director, Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis http://crmda.ku.edu To write to me directly, please address me at pauljohn at ku.edu.
Zotero - LyX pipe. Ubuntu 13.10, LyX 2.0.7
I recently upgraded Firefox (only took me a couple of hours to repair most of the damages). Iin doing so l managed to lose my connection from Zotero to LyZ. Firefox seems to automatically use the Windows path even in a Linux installation I have reset the path to /home/john/.lyx/lyxpipe which is what it was in LyX and I am assuming that it is the same in the Zotero settings. Does this sound correct? At the moment when I sent a citation to LyX , I get nothing, no citation, no error message, no anything. The annoying thing is that JabRef will sent a citation with no problem with exactly the same path setting. Any suggestions? Thanks
Zotero - LyX pipe. Ubuntu 13.10, LyX 2.0.7
I recently upgraded Firefox (only took me a couple of hours to repair most of the damages). Iin doing so l managed to lose my connection from Zotero to LyZ. Firefox seems to automatically use the Windows path even in a Linux installation I have reset the path to /home/john/.lyx/lyxpipe which is what it was in LyX and I am assuming that it is the same in the Zotero settings. Does this sound correct? At the moment when I sent a citation to LyX , I get nothing, no citation, no error message, no anything. The annoying thing is that JabRef will sent a citation with no problem with exactly the same path setting. Any suggestions? Thanks
Zotero - LyX pipe. Ubuntu 13.10, LyX 2.0.7
I recently upgraded Firefox (only took me a couple of hours to repair most of the damages). Iin doing so l managed to lose my connection from Zotero to LyZ. Firefox seems to automatically use the Windows path even in a Linux installation I have reset the path to /home/john/.lyx/lyxpipe which is what it was in LyX and I am assuming that it is the same in the Zotero settings. Does this sound correct? At the moment when I sent a citation to LyX , I get nothing, no citation, no error message, no anything. The annoying thing is that JabRef will sent a citation with no problem with exactly the same path setting. Any suggestions? Thanks
Re: aspell on ubuntu with LyX
Stacia Hartleben wrote: Hey guys, I am running into difficulty getting aspell working under Xubuntu. I installed it but the spellcheck button is always grayed out...is there some sort of setting I can turn on to get it working? I couldn't find anything on the Wiki. Don't know about Xubuntu, but it works for me on Gutsy. Try 'which aspell' and maybe 'aspell --version' in a terminal to make sure it's installed correctly. Then check Tools - Preferences... - Language settings - Spellchecker - Spellchecker executable and make sure it's set to either 'aspell' or 'aspell (library)'. HTH, Paul
Re: aspell on ubuntu with LyX
On Jan 30, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Stacia Hartleben wrote: Hey guys, I am running into difficulty getting aspell working under Xubuntu. I installed it but the spellcheck button is always grayed out...is there some sort of setting I can turn on to get it working? I couldn't find anything on the Wiki. Don't know about Xubuntu, but it works for me on Gutsy. Gutsy is actually the name of the latest stable release (7.10) of the general OS underlying all of the various .*buntu incarnations. Chris Menzel Picking Nits since 1976 :-)
Re: aspell on ubuntu with LyX
Stacia Hartleben wrote: Hey guys, I am running into difficulty getting aspell working under Xubuntu. I installed it but the spellcheck button is always grayed out...is there some sort of setting I can turn on to get it working? I couldn't find anything on the Wiki. Don't know about Xubuntu, but it works for me on Gutsy. Try 'which aspell' and maybe 'aspell --version' in a terminal to make sure it's installed correctly. Then check Tools - Preferences... - Language settings - Spellchecker - Spellchecker executable and make sure it's set to either 'aspell' or 'aspell (library)'. HTH, Paul
Re: aspell on ubuntu with LyX
On Jan 30, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Stacia Hartleben wrote: Hey guys, I am running into difficulty getting aspell working under Xubuntu. I installed it but the spellcheck button is always grayed out...is there some sort of setting I can turn on to get it working? I couldn't find anything on the Wiki. Don't know about Xubuntu, but it works for me on Gutsy. Gutsy is actually the name of the latest stable release (7.10) of the general OS underlying all of the various .*buntu incarnations. Chris Menzel Picking Nits since 1976 :-)
Re: aspell on ubuntu with LyX
Stacia Hartleben wrote: Hey guys, I am running into difficulty getting aspell working under Xubuntu. I installed it but the spellcheck button is always grayed out...is there some sort of setting I can turn on to get it working? I couldn't find anything on the Wiki. Don't know about Xubuntu, but it works for me on Gutsy. Try 'which aspell' and maybe 'aspell --version' in a terminal to make sure it's installed correctly. Then check Tools -> Preferences... -> Language settings -> Spellchecker -> Spellchecker executable and make sure it's set to either 'aspell' or 'aspell (library)'. HTH, Paul
Re: aspell on ubuntu with LyX
On Jan 30, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Stacia Hartleben wrote: Hey guys, I am running into difficulty getting aspell working under Xubuntu. I installed it but the spellcheck button is always grayed out...is there some sort of setting I can turn on to get it working? I couldn't find anything on the Wiki. Don't know about Xubuntu, but it works for me on Gutsy. "Gutsy" is actually the name of the latest stable release (7.10) of the general OS underlying all of the various .*buntu incarnations. Chris Menzel "Picking Nits since 1976" :-)
aspell on ubuntu with LyX
Hey guys, I am running into difficulty getting aspell working under Xubuntu. I installed it but the spellcheck button is always grayed out...is there some sort of setting I can turn on to get it working? I couldn't find anything on the Wiki.
aspell on ubuntu with LyX
Hey guys, I am running into difficulty getting aspell working under Xubuntu. I installed it but the spellcheck button is always grayed out...is there some sort of setting I can turn on to get it working? I couldn't find anything on the Wiki.
aspell on ubuntu with LyX
Hey guys, I am running into difficulty getting aspell working under Xubuntu. I installed it but the spellcheck button is always grayed out...is there some sort of setting I can turn on to get it working? I couldn't find anything on the Wiki.
ubuntu and lyx
Can someone tell me which qt3 packages I have to install under ubuntu/debian to get lyx configured? -- Viele Grüße, Hartmut Hungerhilfe: http://www.thehungersite.com Kampagne gegen den Ausverkauf der Deutschen Bahn: http://www.bahn-fuer-alle.de Das heutige Motto: Try to value useful qualities in one who loves you.
Re: ubuntu and lyx
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:21:09PM +0200, Hartmut Haase wrote: Can someone tell me which qt3 packages I have to install under ubuntu/debian to get lyx configured? http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-usersm=115442632416905w=2 and related posts ... You would be better of running a native Debian ... Sv*hiding_under_some_economics_books*en -- If you won't forgive me the rest of my life Let me apologize while I'm still alive I know it's time to face all of my past mistakes [Less than Jake - Rest Of My Life]
ubuntu and lyx
Can someone tell me which qt3 packages I have to install under ubuntu/debian to get lyx configured? -- Viele Grüße, Hartmut Hungerhilfe: http://www.thehungersite.com Kampagne gegen den Ausverkauf der Deutschen Bahn: http://www.bahn-fuer-alle.de Das heutige Motto: Try to value useful qualities in one who loves you.
Re: ubuntu and lyx
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:21:09PM +0200, Hartmut Haase wrote: Can someone tell me which qt3 packages I have to install under ubuntu/debian to get lyx configured? http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-usersm=115442632416905w=2 and related posts ... You would be better of running a native Debian ... Sv*hiding_under_some_economics_books*en -- If you won't forgive me the rest of my life Let me apologize while I'm still alive I know it's time to face all of my past mistakes [Less than Jake - Rest Of My Life]
ubuntu and lyx
Can someone tell me which qt3 packages I have to install under ubuntu/debian to get lyx configured? -- Viele Grüße, Hartmut Hungerhilfe: http://www.thehungersite.com Kampagne gegen den Ausverkauf der Deutschen Bahn: http://www.bahn-fuer-alle.de Das heutige Motto: Try to value useful qualities in one who loves you.
Re: ubuntu and lyx
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:21:09PM +0200, Hartmut Haase wrote: > Can someone tell me which qt3 packages I have to install under ubuntu/debian > to get lyx configured? http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-users=115442632416905=2 and related posts ... You would be better of running a native Debian ... Sv*hiding_under_some_economics_books*en -- If you won't forgive me the rest of my life Let me apologize while I'm still alive I know it's time to face all of my past mistakes [Less than Jake - Rest Of My Life]
