Rich Shepard wrote:
On Sun, 7 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote:
I read the instructions in the INSTALL file, and after running
./configure
corrected for one error message by installing a KDE Development package
from Xandros Networks (for gcc, etc.). But I'm still hung up on the
frontend. I've been trying to use Qt, running "./configure
--with-qt3-dir=/usr/share/qt3" and other variants of that (I have a Qt
under /usr/share/themes; I tried that but don't think it's what I need),
but continue to get these last two lines of my console output:
Ah! My apologies, John. I provided generic instructions, but not the
lyx-specific one.
checking what frontend should be used for the GUI... none
configure: error: "Please select a frontend using --with-frontend"
Do this:
./configure --with-frontend=qt
It should find your qt install directory without problem, but the
configuration step needs to know if you want the qt front end or the
xforms
front end. Personally, I was glad to get rid of xforms.
Rich
Rich,
I'm now happily opening 1.4.1... thanks to your patience and some help
from one of my Xandros Forum friends. What I hadn't understood was that
pointing LyX to the qt directory requires BOTH the --with-frontend=qt
statement AND a separate --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt3 statement (if I'm
remembering the format correctly).
So it was:
./configure --with-frontend=qt --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt3
that finally worked. A "make" and "make install" put my new LyX in
/usr/local/bin and a quick edit of my desktop icon has that opening
instead of 1.3.4 (which remains in /usr/bin).
I apologize to the list for taking up this space on an issue most of you
already understood... but a quick look at the INSTALL file should make
it easy to understand my confusion. A simple example, added to that
file, would have made everything clear.
Thanks again, Rich, for your patience. I think I finally have it, and
the Tutorial and Introduction look great without any additional font
fiddling.
