Hi, i think the main problem is that SuSE has different names for the rpm packages than Red Hat has. So ensure that you have a running tex/latex environment and then run: rpm -ivh --upgrade --nodeps *.rpm
If this doesn't help you can add the option --force Bye Joe -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Michael Abshoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2002 09:24 An: Bruce Sass Cc: M. B. Schiekel; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Lyx-1.2.1 with SuSE-8.1 Bruce Sass wrote: >On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, M. B. Schiekel wrote: > > > >>Hallo everybody, >> >>beg your pardon for 2 beginner questions. >>Now that I went from my stable SuSE-7.3, Lyx-1.6.1 to SuSE-8.1 >>I'm encountering many problems - here are 2 Lyx questions. >> >>1. SuSE-8.1 comes with Lyx-1.2.0 - and Lyx installs and runs. >>Next I installed (rpm --upgrade) from the lyx-server: >>Lyx-1.2.1-1rh8-xforms089.i386.rpm . >> >> > ^^^ > > >>Then I got the following ' failed dependencies': >> tetex-xdvi, tetex-latex, >> You should know that SuSE 8.1 doesn't install anything TeX-related even when you choose all software-packets during the installation. That means that you should install - pdf_te - psutils - dvitools with yast2. Than there shouldn't be any problems installing a lyx-binary compiled for SuSE. If you want to compile lyx you have to install the package xformsd. Let me know if you need any additional help. Michael >> perl(Cwd), perl(File::Basename), perl (FileHandle), >> perl(lib), perl (strict), perl(vars). >>So what to do? >> >> > >find a lyx-1.2.1 built for suse, >the rh8 indicates a RedHat package? > >build it yourself > > >- Bruce > > -- Michael Abshoff - MRB - Universität Dortmund - Telefon 755-3463 (intern) Where do you want to RTFM today?
