Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien] -SOLVED
On 26 Mar 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-03-26, Anthony Campbell wrote: For some reason, though, I had to copy the resultant lyx executable to ~/bin myself; neither make install nor the deb file put an executable in place. By default, the prefix is /usr/local, so probably the executable ended up in /usr/local/bin (if you did not give another option to ./configure). Or you configured --with-version-suffix and this is appended to lyx. Günter Yes, I think that was it. Incidentally, I've now discovered why I was needing to put the path to Qt4 on the laptop. I didn't have the pkg-config package installed. Now that I have, lyx finds the library automatically. Perhaps it would be worth including a note about this in the INSTALL file? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)
Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien] -SOLVED
On 26 Mar 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-03-26, Anthony Campbell wrote: For some reason, though, I had to copy the resultant lyx executable to ~/bin myself; neither make install nor the deb file put an executable in place. By default, the prefix is /usr/local, so probably the executable ended up in /usr/local/bin (if you did not give another option to ./configure). Or you configured --with-version-suffix and this is appended to lyx. Günter Yes, I think that was it. Incidentally, I've now discovered why I was needing to put the path to Qt4 on the laptop. I didn't have the pkg-config package installed. Now that I have, lyx finds the library automatically. Perhaps it would be worth including a note about this in the INSTALL file? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)
Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien] -SOLVED
On 26 Mar 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2009-03-26, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > For some reason, though, I had to copy the resultant lyx executable to > > ~/bin myself; neither make install nor the deb file put an executable in > > place. > > By default, the prefix is /usr/local, so probably the executable ended up in > /usr/local/bin (if you did not give another option to ./configure). > Or you configured --with-version-suffix and this is appended to "lyx". > > Günter > Yes, I think that was it. Incidentally, I've now discovered why I was needing to put the path to Qt4 on the laptop. I didn't have the pkg-config package installed. Now that I have, lyx finds the library automatically. Perhaps it would be worth including a note about this in the INSTALL file? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)
Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien] -SOLVED
On 25 Mar 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 25 Mar 2009, rgheck wrote: Hard to know. The first thing I'd do is check to make sure libqt4-dev is installed, and find out where it is installed. Anyway, if you want to post the config.log, I can have a look. rh libqt4-dev is installed. There doesn't seem to be one file; there are several in /usr/share/lintian/overrides. Pointing configure to this doesn't help. Here is config.log. It seems to have found several files but at the end it fails. I had to cut some of it because the server rejected it initially as too big, but I hopeI've kept the important bits, which seem to come at the end. Anthony I did a reinstall of qt4 and this time it created a directory in /usr/share. I pointed the lyx configure file to that and it worked. For some reason, though, I had to copy the resultant lyx executable to ~/bin myself; neither make install nor the deb file put an executable in place. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)
Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien] -SOLVED
On 2009-03-26, Anthony Campbell wrote: For some reason, though, I had to copy the resultant lyx executable to ~/bin myself; neither make install nor the deb file put an executable in place. By default, the prefix is /usr/local, so probably the executable ended up in /usr/local/bin (if you did not give another option to ./configure). Or you configured --with-version-suffix and this is appended to lyx. Günter
Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien] -SOLVED
On 25 Mar 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 25 Mar 2009, rgheck wrote: Hard to know. The first thing I'd do is check to make sure libqt4-dev is installed, and find out where it is installed. Anyway, if you want to post the config.log, I can have a look. rh libqt4-dev is installed. There doesn't seem to be one file; there are several in /usr/share/lintian/overrides. Pointing configure to this doesn't help. Here is config.log. It seems to have found several files but at the end it fails. I had to cut some of it because the server rejected it initially as too big, but I hopeI've kept the important bits, which seem to come at the end. Anthony I did a reinstall of qt4 and this time it created a directory in /usr/share. I pointed the lyx configure file to that and it worked. For some reason, though, I had to copy the resultant lyx executable to ~/bin myself; neither make install nor the deb file put an executable in place. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)
Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien] -SOLVED
On 2009-03-26, Anthony Campbell wrote: For some reason, though, I had to copy the resultant lyx executable to ~/bin myself; neither make install nor the deb file put an executable in place. By default, the prefix is /usr/local, so probably the executable ended up in /usr/local/bin (if you did not give another option to ./configure). Or you configured --with-version-suffix and this is appended to lyx. Günter
Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien] -SOLVED
On 25 Mar 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 25 Mar 2009, rgheck wrote: > > > Hard to know. The first thing I'd do is check to make sure libqt4-dev is > > installed, and find out where it is installed. Anyway, if you want to > > post the config.log, I can have a look. > > > > rh > > > libqt4-dev is installed. There doesn't seem to be one file; there are > several in /usr/share/lintian/overrides. Pointing configure to this > doesn't help. Here is config.log. It seems to have found several files > but at the end it fails. > > I had to cut some of it because the server rejected it initially as too > big, but I hopeI've kept the important bits, which seem to come at the > end. > > Anthony > I did a reinstall of qt4 and this time it created a directory in /usr/share. I pointed the lyx configure file to that and it worked. For some reason, though, I had to copy the resultant lyx executable to ~/bin myself; neither make install nor the deb file put an executable in place. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)
Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien] -SOLVED
On 2009-03-26, Anthony Campbell wrote: > For some reason, though, I had to copy the resultant lyx executable to > ~/bin myself; neither make install nor the deb file put an executable in > place. By default, the prefix is /usr/local, so probably the executable ended up in /usr/local/bin (if you did not give another option to ./configure). Or you configured --with-version-suffix and this is appended to "lyx". Günter
