I am attempting to install lyx on a IBM thinkpad running
slackware 9.0 linux. (This is the computer given to my to use by Acadia university.
I don't think I am allowed to install say redhat (I was able to install lyx on
my home computer which runs redhat. Also a few things on slactware 9.0 were
removed to make space to be able to also boot windows :-( ).
I was able to configure sucessfully using the --with-frontend=qt setting. (as root)
(I am building lyx from ~rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3.)
I as able to do a make (compile) sucessfully. (as root)
I then ran src/lyx as rboland sucessfully except that in math mode mathematical
symbols are not displayed properly. They do print properly though.
In redhat I had to install a fonts file which was a .rpm file to get this to work.
How do I get this file and install it using slackware 9.0?
Note that when I ran the command:
ldd `which lyx` | grep fontconfig
I get the message:
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x40b05000)Upon exiting lyx I get the message:
"Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy."
I am at a loss as to what this message means.
I then attempted a make install. Mostly it seems to work but at the end I get
...
test -f xfonts/fonts.dir || exit 0 ; \
/bin/sh ../config/mkinstalldirs /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts ; \
files=`sed -e 's/^[0-9]*$//' -e 's/^\([^ ]*\) .*$/\1/' xfonts/fonts.dir` ; \
for i in ${files} ; do \
ln -f -s `kpsewhich $i` /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts/$i ; \
done ; \
/usr/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 xfonts/fonts.dir /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts/fonts.dir ; \
/usr/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 xfonts/fonts.scale /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts/fonts.scale
test -f xfonts/PSres.upr && /usr/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 xfonts/PSres.upr /usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts/PSres.upr
make[3]: *** [install-xfonts] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3/lib'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3/lib'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3/lib'
Obviously, part of the problem here relates to my need to install some font, presumedly
the same font I installed on redhat. I am assuming (with some lack of confidence)
that installing this font will remove all these problems.
I then attempted to run lyx (as rboland). I get the following messages:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3$ LyX Warning! Couldn't determine s
ystem directory. Try the '-sysdir' command line parameter or set the e
nvironment variable LYX_DIR_13x to the LyX system directory containing
the file `chkconfig.ltx'.
Using built-in default /usr/local/share/lyx but expect problems.
LyX: reconfiguring user directory
configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script
LyX: Done!
Unable to find icon `'
Unable to find icon `'
Unable to find icon `'
Unable to find icon `'
Unable to find icon `'
Unable to find icon `'
Unable to find icon `'
Unable to find icon `'
Unable to find icon `'
Unable to find icon `'
Unable to find icon `'
Unable to find icon `'
Unable to find icon `'
Unable to find icon `'
Unable to find icon `'
Unable to open character set file
Error: Textclass 'article' is missing a defaultstyle.
Error reading `'
(Check `article')
Check your installation and try Options/Reconfigure...
Operator[] called with empty n
We failed to find the layout '' in the layout list. You MUST investiga te!
lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught
Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting inst ructions in Help->Introduction and send us a bug report, if necessary. Thanks !
Bye.
I then ran locate chkconfig.ltx from / . (after rebuilding the locate database).
It was found only in ~rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3/lib/chkconfig.ltx.
This suggests to me that chkconfig.ltx was supposed to be installed somewhere
but wasn't.
I next ran:
lyx -sysdir=/home/rboland/Lyx/lyx-1.3.3/lib
This ran sucessfully except for the problems I had before. That is:
1) mathematical symbols such as \alpha, \gamma fail to display and instead alpha and gamma are
displayed on the screen. The proper symbols are displayed when printing.
2) on exit I get the message:
"Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy."
I would appreciate any help in getting this install to work
as I will be using Lyx to create all my course materials
and papers this semester.
I am particularly interested in having the installation of Lyx
on the laptop be as simple as possible so that the students
in the courses that I am teaching are able to install lyx on their
laptops (which are mostly running the exact same software).
If I could build an automatically installing package
that I could give them to run that would be great
but I am not sure what is involved with doing this.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Ralph Boland
