Fwd: Mac Install Problems

[Ian Stevenson]

Dear Bennett,

I hope the following may be helpful help but I suspect not as clear as you would like.

OK ... but what precisely is the bug? What goes wrong with the conversion from the old preferences file to the new? When I try it here, the conversion from 1.3.5 to 1.3.7 goes smoothly, so if there is a problem with the installer script I need more information.

~/.lyx/preferences
~/Library/Application Support/Lyx/preferences
/Applications/Lyx.App/Contents/Resources/lyx/preferences

I do not recall installing 1.3.5 so I think this is a fresh install, I can only assume the 1.3.7 creates the ~/.lyx directory You'll have to be a bit more specific as there are at least 3 files called "preferences" these are:

Could you send me the following:

(a) your 1.3.5 preferences file,
(b) the 1.3.7 preferences file that the lyx installer produces, and

I deleted the following:
~/.lyx/preferences
~/Library/Application Support/Lyx/preferences

I have no way of knowing which is now in my "trash" folder

(c) the 1.3.7 preferences file that works?

The only file that remains is: /Applications/Lyx.App/Contents/ Resources/lyx/preferences attached below for your reference.

preferences
Description: Binary data

I hope this helps,
Ian

Bennett

On 03/02/2006, at 8:04 PM, Patrick De Visschere wrote:

Ian,

I had similar problems and solved it by removing all the preference-files (old and new). From 1.3.5 on the preferences have been moved from ~/.lyx/ to ~/ Library/Application Support/lyx/ When upgrading the lyx installer moves the files but apparently something goes wrong causing lyx to look in the wrong places. I upgraded from 1.3.5 to 1.3.7 and got your problem, although tetex and all classes were present as before. I'm not sure but it is possible that the paths in the preferences-dialog were empty; maybe supplying the missing paths may also help.