Thanks Yann Collete and Michael Hanke, that worked perfectly. You learn something new every day :-) On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Michael Hanke wrote: > On Die, 10 Okt 2000 you wrote: > > But again xforms was compiled dynamically and I was shown the following > > message: > > src/lyx: error in loading shared libraries: libforms.so.0.88: cannot open > > shared object file: No such file or directory > > > Your easiest solution is to set an environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH:' > > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/your/xform/location > > for simplicity, you write a small shell script which sets this variable before > calling lyx. > > /Michael