On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 01:48 PM, Ronald Florence wrote:
> I'm new to fink and the fink list, have read the cautions about not > asking questions related to MacOS 10.2, and hope this question is not > out of bounds. > > First, my thanks for everyone who worked on this excellent tool. This > is my first Mac after 14 years with SunOS and Solaris, and the ease of > use of this package is remarkable. > > But ... I'm having a devilish time installing LyX on a 10.2 system. > The xforms package, which is required, bombs in unpacking. I read one > WWW page that recommended editing the info file to comment out the > http entry and uncomment the ftp entry -- which points it directly to > the xforms home page. Should unpack fine if you are running the unstable tree and have run "fink selfupdate-cvs" recently. > > > I'm desperate for LyX on this box, and would welcome suggestions. > Thanks, If I remember correctly, lyx has gcc3 problems.. it needs to be fixed/ported to gcc3. Your solaris boxes are not running gcc3 yet. :) -Ben ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
