Thanks for the prompt replies. I'll try during the weekend. mario
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 19:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, mario wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > my first post > > > > I am trying to install Lyx on Fedora Core2. Something is missing (see > > below) > > Pls, advise a newbie. > > Thanks Regards mario > > _______________________________________________ > > When ./configure, I get the foll0wing msg: > > > > Configuration > > Host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu > > Special build flags: included-libsigc > > C Compiler: gcc > > C Compiler flags: -g -O2 > > C++ Compiler: g++ (3.3.3) > > C++ Compiler flags: -O -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions > > Linker flags: > > Frontend: xforms > > libXpm version: 4.11 > > libforms version: > > LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin > > LyX files dir: /usr/local/share/lyx > > > > **** The following problems have been detected by configure. > > **** Please check the messages below before running 'make'. > > **** (see the section 'Problems' in the INSTALL file) > > > > ** Cannot find libforms or libxforms. Please check that the xforms > > library > > is correctly installed on your system. > > > > ** Cannot find forms.h. Please check that the forms library > > is correctly installed on your system. > > > > > > > > > > Hey Mario, > > configure complains that it can't find forms.h, which is the header file > of the xforms libarary, the default gui for lyx. So you either have to > install the xform-library and probably its developer-package or you can > compile xforms from source. xforms-1.0 should be available from the > lyx-site. > > Another possibility is compiling the qt-frontend. Just and > > --with-frontend=qt > > to ./configure. If it complains (i.e. about missing moc) you should > install the qt-devel package. > > Questions? > > Michael > >
