problems buillding lyx on slackware 9.0
I am attempting to install lyx on a IBM thinkpad running slackware 9.0 linux. (This is the computer given to my to use by Acadia university. I don't think I am allowed to install say redhat (I was able to install lyx on my home computer which runs redhat. Also a few things on slactware 9.0 were removed to make space to be able to also boot windows :-( ). I was able to configure sucessfully using the --with-frontend=qt setting. (as root) (I am building lyx from ~rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3.) I as able to do a make (compile) sucessfully. (as root) I then ran src/lyx as rboland sucessfully except that in math mode mathematical symbols are not displayed properly. They do print properly though. In redhat I had to install a fonts file which was a .rpm file to get this to work. How do I get this file and install it using slackware 9.0? Note that when I ran the command: ldd `which lyx` | grep fontconfig I get the message: libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x40b05000) Upon exiting lyx I get the message: Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy. I am at a loss as to what this message means. I then attempted a make install. Mostly it seems to work but at the end I get ... test -f xfonts/fonts.dir || exit 0 ; \ /bin/sh ../config/mkinstalldirs /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts ; \ files=`sed -e 's/^[0-9]*$//' -e 's/^\([^ ]*\) .*$/\1/' xfonts/fonts.dir` ; \ for i in ${files} ; do \ ln -f -s `kpsewhich $i` /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts/$i ; \ done ; \ /usr/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 xfonts/fonts.dir /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts/fonts.dir ; \ /usr/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 xfonts/fonts.scale /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts/fonts.scale test -f xfonts/PSres.upr /usr/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 xfonts/PSres.upr /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts/PSres.upr make[3]: *** [install-xfonts] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3/lib' make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3/lib' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3/lib' Obviously, part of the problem here relates to my need to install some font, presumedly the same font I installed on redhat. I am assuming (with some lack of confidence) that installing this font will remove all these problems. I then attempted to run lyx (as rboland). I get the following messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3$ LyX Warning! Couldn't determine s ystem directory. Try the '-sysdir' command line parameter or set the e nvironment variable LYX_DIR_13x to the LyX system directory containing the file `chkconfig.ltx'. Using built-in default /usr/local/share/lyx but expect problems. LyX: reconfiguring user directory configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script LyX: Done! Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to open character set file Error: Textclass 'article' is missing a defaultstyle. Error reading `' (Check `article') Check your installation and try Options/Reconfigure... Operator[] called with empty n We failed to find the layout '' in the layout list. You MUST investiga te! lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting inst ructions in Help-Introduction and send us a bug report, if necessary. Thanks ! Bye. I then ran locate chkconfig.ltx from / . (after rebuilding the locate database). It was found only in ~rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3/lib/chkconfig.ltx. This suggests to me that chkconfig.ltx was supposed to be installed somewhere but wasn't. I next ran: lyx -sysdir=/home/rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3/lib This ran sucessfully except for the problems I had before. That is: 1) mathematical symbols such as \alpha, \gamma fail to display and instead alpha and gamma are displayed on the screen. The proper symbols are displayed when printing. 2) on exit I get the message: Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy. I would appreciate any help in getting this install to work as I will be using Lyx to create all my course materials and papers this semester. I am particularly interested in having the installation of Lyx on the laptop be as simple as possible so that the students in the courses that I am teaching are able to install lyx on their laptops (which are mostly running the exact same software). If I could build an automatically installing package that I could give them to run that would be great but I am not sure what is involved with doing this. Thanks in advance for your help. Ralph Boland
Re: problems buillding lyx on slackware 9.0
I then ran src/lyx as rboland sucessfully except that in math mode mathematical symbols are not displayed properly. They do print properly though. In redhat I had to install a fonts file which was a .rpm file to get this to work. You probably need to install latex-xft-fonts for the math to show up.. you can find the non-rpm version at: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/ I believe there are install instructions in the archive.. nirmal
problems buillding lyx on slackware 9.0
I am attempting to install lyx on a IBM thinkpad running slackware 9.0 linux. (This is the computer given to my to use by Acadia university. I don't think I am allowed to install say redhat (I was able to install lyx on my home computer which runs redhat. Also a few things on slactware 9.0 were removed to make space to be able to also boot windows :-( ). I was able to configure sucessfully using the --with-frontend=qt setting. (as root) (I am building lyx from ~rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3.) I as able to do a make (compile) sucessfully. (as root) I then ran src/lyx as rboland sucessfully except that in math mode mathematical symbols are not displayed properly. They do print properly though. In redhat I had to install a fonts file which was a .rpm file to get this to work. How do I get this file and install it using slackware 9.0? Note that when I ran the command: ldd `which lyx` | grep fontconfig I get the message: libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x40b05000) Upon exiting lyx I get the message: Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy. I am at a loss as to what this message means. I then attempted a make install. Mostly it seems to work but at the end I get ... test -f xfonts/fonts.dir || exit 0 ; \ /bin/sh ../config/mkinstalldirs /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts ; \ files=`sed -e 's/^[0-9]*$//' -e 's/^\([^ ]*\) .*$/\1/' xfonts/fonts.dir` ; \ for i in ${files} ; do \ ln -f -s `kpsewhich $i` /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts/$i ; \ done ; \ /usr/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 xfonts/fonts.dir /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts/fonts.dir ; \ /usr/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 xfonts/fonts.scale /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts/fonts.scale test -f xfonts/PSres.upr /usr/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 xfonts/PSres.upr /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts/PSres.upr make[3]: *** [install-xfonts] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3/lib' make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3/lib' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3/lib' Obviously, part of the problem here relates to my need to install some font, presumedly the same font I installed on redhat. I am assuming (with some lack of confidence) that installing this font will remove all these problems. I then attempted to run lyx (as rboland). I get the following messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3$ LyX Warning! Couldn't determine s ystem directory. Try the '-sysdir' command line parameter or set the e nvironment variable LYX_DIR_13x to the LyX system directory containing the file `chkconfig.ltx'. Using built-in default /usr/local/share/lyx but expect problems. LyX: reconfiguring user directory configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script LyX: Done! Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to open character set file Error: Textclass 'article' is missing a defaultstyle. Error reading `' (Check `article') Check your installation and try Options/Reconfigure... Operator[] called with empty n We failed to find the layout '' in the layout list. You MUST investiga te! lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting inst ructions in Help-Introduction and send us a bug report, if necessary. Thanks ! Bye. I then ran locate chkconfig.ltx from / . (after rebuilding the locate database). It was found only in ~rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3/lib/chkconfig.ltx. This suggests to me that chkconfig.ltx was supposed to be installed somewhere but wasn't. I next ran: lyx -sysdir=/home/rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3/lib This ran sucessfully except for the problems I had before. That is: 1) mathematical symbols such as \alpha, \gamma fail to display and instead alpha and gamma are displayed on the screen. The proper symbols are displayed when printing. 2) on exit I get the message: Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy. I would appreciate any help in getting this install to work as I will be using Lyx to create all my course materials and papers this semester. I am particularly interested in having the installation of Lyx on the laptop be as simple as possible so that the students in the courses that I am teaching are able to install lyx on their laptops (which are mostly running the exact same software). If I could build an automatically installing package that I could give them to run that would be great but I am not sure what is involved with doing this. Thanks in advance for your help. Ralph Boland
Re: problems buillding lyx on slackware 9.0
I then ran src/lyx as rboland sucessfully except that in math mode mathematical symbols are not displayed properly. They do print properly though. In redhat I had to install a fonts file which was a .rpm file to get this to work. You probably need to install latex-xft-fonts for the math to show up.. you can find the non-rpm version at: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/ I believe there are install instructions in the archive.. nirmal
problems buillding lyx on slackware 9.0
I am attempting to install lyx on a IBM thinkpad running slackware 9.0 linux. (This is the computer given to my to use by Acadia university. I don't think I am allowed to install say redhat (I was able to install lyx on my home computer which runs redhat. Also a few things on slactware 9.0 were removed to make space to be able to also boot windows :-( ). I was able to configure sucessfully using the --with-frontend=qt setting. (as root) (I am building lyx from ~rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3.) I as able to do a make (compile) sucessfully. (as root) I then ran src/lyx as rboland sucessfully except that in math mode mathematical symbols are not displayed properly. They do print properly though. In redhat I had to install a fonts file which was a .rpm file to get this to work. How do I get this file and install it using slackware 9.0? Note that when I ran the command: ldd `which lyx` | grep fontconfig I get the message: libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x40b05000) Upon exiting lyx I get the message: "Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy." I am at a loss as to what this message means. I then attempted a make install. Mostly it seems to work but at the end I get ... test -f xfonts/fonts.dir || exit 0 ; \ /bin/sh ../config/mkinstalldirs /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts ; \ files=`sed -e 's/^[0-9]*$//' -e 's/^\([^ ]*\) .*$/\1/' xfonts/fonts.dir` ; \ for i in ${files} ; do \ ln -f -s `kpsewhich $i` /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts/$i ; \ done ; \ /usr/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 xfonts/fonts.dir /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts/fonts.dir ; \ /usr/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 xfonts/fonts.scale /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts/fonts.scale test -f xfonts/PSres.upr && /usr/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 xfonts/PSres.upr /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts/PSres.upr make[3]: *** [install-xfonts] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3/lib' make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3/lib' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3/lib' Obviously, part of the problem here relates to my need to install some font, presumedly the same font I installed on redhat. I am assuming (with some lack of confidence) that installing this font will remove all these problems. I then attempted to run lyx (as rboland). I get the following messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3$ LyX Warning! Couldn't determine s ystem directory. Try the '-sysdir' command line parameter or set the e nvironment variable LYX_DIR_13x to the LyX system directory containing the file `chkconfig.ltx'. Using built-in default /usr/local/share/lyx but expect problems. LyX: reconfiguring user directory configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script LyX: Done! Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to find icon `' Unable to open character set file Error: Textclass 'article' is missing a defaultstyle. Error reading `' (Check `article') Check your installation and try Options/Reconfigure... Operator[] called with empty n We failed to find the layout '' in the layout list. You MUST investiga te! lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting inst ructions in Help->Introduction and send us a bug report, if necessary. Thanks ! Bye. I then ran locate chkconfig.ltx from / . (after rebuilding the locate database). It was found only in ~rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3/lib/chkconfig.ltx. This suggests to me that chkconfig.ltx was supposed to be installed somewhere but wasn't. I next ran: lyx -sysdir=/home/rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3/lib This ran sucessfully except for the problems I had before. That is: 1) mathematical symbols such as \alpha, \gamma fail to display and instead alpha and gamma are displayed on the screen. The proper symbols are displayed when printing. 2) on exit I get the message: "Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy." I would appreciate any help in getting this install to work as I will be using Lyx to create all my course materials and papers this semester. I am particularly interested in having the installation of Lyx on the laptop be as simple as possible so that the students in the courses that I am teaching are able to install lyx on their laptops (which are mostly running the exact same software). If I could build an automatically installing package that I could give them to run that would be great but I am not sure what is involved with doing this. Thanks in advance for your help. Ralph Boland
Re: problems buillding lyx on slackware 9.0
I then ran src/lyx as rboland sucessfully except that in math mode mathematical symbols are not displayed properly. They do print properly though. In redhat I had to install a fonts file which was a .rpm file to get this to work. You probably need to install latex-xft-fonts for the math to show up.. you can find the non-rpm version at: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/ I believe there are install instructions in the archive.. nirmal