José Abílio Oliveira Matos wrote: > This shows that python wasn't properly installed.
Yes, I suspected this too. > > juergen@eddy:~> python -V > > Python 2.0 > > Just for backward compatibility I am using python 1.5.2 Actually, it should be python 2.1. See below. > > juergen@eddy:~> getopt --version > > getopt (enhanced) 1.1.2 > > I have this too. So the problem appears to be in the python installation. > IIRC you are using suse, which version? > Where does the python package comes from? SuSE 7.3 (python 2.1). I discovered that there was a second (incomplete?) python version installed (hell knows why). After deleting that, lyx2lyx imports my 1.2.x files. A remaining issue on opening a new file is: "Cannot open ~/.lyx/templates/defaults.lyx" Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/juergen/lyx-qt/lib/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx", line 180, in ? main(sys.argv) File "/home/juergen/lyx-qt/lib/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx", line 157, in main parse_options(argv) File "/home/juergen/lyx-qt/lib/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx", line 99, in parse_options opt.input = open(args[0]) IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/juergen/uni/promotion/newfile3.lyx' (newfile3.lyx does indeed not exist, but I want a new file) Many thanks, Jürgen.