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



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