Re: Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-09 Thread John B. Egger
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 be

Re: Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-07 Thread Rich Shepard
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, ru

Re: Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-07 Thread John B. Egger
Michael Abshoff wrote: Rich, I'm using Xandros 3.0 and have become spoiled by Xandros Networks, where applications are offered that the company has already checked for dependencies (and included them when necessary and safe). I read the instructions in the INSTALL file, and after running ./c

Re: Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-07 Thread Michael Abshoff
> Rich, I'm using Xandros 3.0 and have become spoiled by Xandros Networks, > where applications are offered that the company has already checked for > dependencies (and included them when necessary and safe). > > I read the instructions in the INSTALL file, and after running > ./configure correcte

Re: Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-07 Thread John B. Egger
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: I downloaded 1.4.1 and extracted the tar.gz but the rest of the install process looks a bit complicated. John, The process is a simple, five-step one: 1.) tar xzvf 2.) cd filename-a.b.c 3.) ./configure (You can check o

Re: Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 6 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: I downloaded 1.4.1 and extracted the tar.gz but the rest of the install process looks a bit complicated. John, The process is a simple, five-step one: 1.) tar xzvf 2.) cd filename-a.b.c 3.) ./configure (You can check options and the default

Re: Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-06 Thread John B. Egger
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: My Linux installation is LyX 1.3.4. John, Perhaps you meant that your LyX version is 1.3.4. That's very old. Get the 1.4.1 version; there may well be a ready-to-install version for your flavor of linux distribution. Here's

Re: Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 6 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: My Linux installation is LyX 1.3.4. John, Perhaps you meant that your LyX version is 1.3.4. That's very old. Get the 1.4.1 version; there may well be a ready-to-install version for your flavor of linux distribution. Here's my rank-beginner's quest

Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-06 Thread John B. Egger
My Linux installation is LyX 1.3.4. Here's my rank-beginner's question: How do I get the text I'm typing to show spaces and punctuation marks? I'm following the Tutorial, and only seeing Whynospacesinmytestfile? (except that the ? is an omega, and so forth). When I view it with the DVI viewer i