On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:29 PM, rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Soe Naung wrote: >> >> Hi! all >> >> I have been unable to install the 1.6 RC1 on my Ubuntu Hardy box. Actually >> I >> can ./configure and make but "make install" keeps failing with the >> following >> log. >> >> make install-data-hook >> make[4]: Entering directory `/home/pan/My >> Downloads/lyx-1.6.0rc1/lib/lyx2lyx' >> chmod 755 /usr/local/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx >> chmod: changing permissions of `/usr/local/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx': No >> such file or directory >> make[4]: *** [install-data-hook] Error 1 >> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/pan/My >> Downloads/lyx-1.6.0rc1/lib/lyx2lyx' >> make[3]: *** [install-data-am] Error 2 >> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/pan/My >> Downloads/lyx-1.6.0rc1/lib/lyx2lyx' >> make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2 >> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pan/My >> Downloads/lyx-1.6.0rc1/lib/lyx2lyx' >> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pan/My Downloads/lyx-1.6.0rc1/lib' >> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 >> >> Is it a bug of the LyX itself? I have been suspicious of my qt4 libraries, >> so I have taken their Debian versions and tried >> again but am still failing. >> >> > > This doesn't have to do with qt4. For some reason, the lyx2lyx program is > apparently not being copied to its installed location. I'd have a look at > /usr/local/share/lyx and see what you have there. Is something preventing > the copy? > > The other thing that strikes me is the fact that you have a space in the > path to the sources" "My Downloads". It's possible that make is choking on > that. Try moving the tree somewhere else, with no spaces. > > rh > >
This may be a stupid comment, but I'll make it anyway. You are running 'make install' as root right? Or in Ubuntu, I guess that would be 'sudo make install'. /Bob
