On Saturday 08 February 2003 06:22 am, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: > I tried posting this to the list yesterday but it never appeared in the > list(?). If any of you are lyx users you may appreciate the Qt frontend in > place of the ugly/clunky xforms frontend. An individual in the lyx-users > list has produced a Mandrake 9.0 Lyx rpm with the Qt frontend instead of > the default xforms frontend. It is very nice. > > It is available at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/bin/lyx/1.3.0 > > It is a major pain to build lyx with the Qt frontend. Many have tried and > failed. This one works nicely if you have kde 3.0.3 and its qt3.x > installed. You should be able to install and use it by using --nodeps (I > did). It will likely complain about needing qt if you don't use nodeps, > even though you have it installed. A quirk associated with the needs of > building the lyx Qt frontend. > > praedor
Yes it works rather well, but use rpm -i once to make sure that you don't have other unmet needs like tetex-xdvi or tetex-latex, then use the --nodeps. Civileme
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