Re: Is uninstalling required ?

2007-11-22 Thread Herve Autret
Hello I 've written Conversely, sh -c latex file.tex runs, as the command is search inside the string itself. Although this is true, it is not the reason why lyx didn't compile my imported LaTeX. First, I relied on the ps command in trying to figure out what was happening. But ps does not

Re: Is uninstalling required ?

2007-11-22 Thread Herve Autret
Hello I 've written Conversely, sh -c latex file.tex runs, as the command is search inside the string itself. Although this is true, it is not the reason why lyx didn't compile my imported LaTeX. First, I relied on the ps command in trying to figure out what was happening. But ps does not

Re: Is uninstalling required ?

2007-11-22 Thread Herve Autret
Hello I 've written Conversely, sh -c "latex file.tex" runs, as the command is search inside the string itself. Although this is true, it is not the reason why lyx didn't compile my imported LaTeX. First, I relied on the ps command in trying to figure out what was happening. But ps does

Re: Is uninstalling required ?

2007-11-21 Thread autreh
Hello Richard and all Lyx users, Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know what's going wrong here ? No, I'm not sure. I haven't seen this problem before. But if latexdoc.tex exists, then latex should simply compile it when invoked in that way. So it sounds as if there's a

Re: Is uninstalling required ?

2007-11-21 Thread Herve Autret
Hello, I've mistyped : On a Mandriva, sh behaves the same way : sh -c find -name toto runs a quite different way from this sh -c find -name toto Sorry about typing in hurry. -- herve

Re: Is uninstalling required ?

2007-11-21 Thread autreh
Hello Richard and all Lyx users, Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know what's going wrong here ? No, I'm not sure. I haven't seen this problem before. But if latexdoc.tex exists, then latex should simply compile it when invoked in that way. So it sounds as if there's a

Re: Is uninstalling required ?

2007-11-21 Thread Herve Autret
Hello, I've mistyped : On a Mandriva, sh behaves the same way : sh -c find -name toto runs a quite different way from this sh -c find -name toto Sorry about typing in hurry. -- herve

Re: Is uninstalling required ?

2007-11-21 Thread autreh
Hello Richard and all Lyx users, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anybody know what's going wrong here ? > No, I'm not sure. I haven't seen this problem before. But if > latexdoc.tex exists, then latex should simply compile it when invoked in > that way. So it sounds as if

Re: Is uninstalling required ?

2007-11-21 Thread Herve Autret
Hello, I've mistyped : On a Mandriva, sh behaves the same way : sh -c "find -name toto" runs a quite different way from this sh -c find -name toto Sorry about typing in hurry. -- herve

Is uninstalling required ?

2007-11-20 Thread Herve Autret
Hi there, I'm new again in LyX, currently 1.5.1 under Linux. I've been trying using it years ago, but I gave up because of difficulties in maintaining documents, especially when formulas had to be edited, as far as I can remember. Importing to and from LaTeX was quite poor, too. I've tried

Re: Is uninstalling required ?

2007-11-20 Thread Herve Autret
Hi, I wrote : should I type make uninstall in Lyx-1.5.1 before make install in 1.5.2, or just make install in the most recent source tree ? I've uninstalled 1.5.1 (in case of...) and installed 1.5.2. LyX-1.5.2 can't compile tex files, either. It hooks in an endless waiting, as it forks(?)

Re: Is uninstalling required ?

2007-11-20 Thread Richard Heck
Herve Autret wrote: Hi, I wrote : should I type make uninstall in Lyx-1.5.1 before make install in 1.5.2, or just make install in the most recent source tree ? I've uninstalled 1.5.1 (in case of...) and installed 1.5.2. Always a good idea. I've seen problems from this. LyX-1.5.2 can't

Is uninstalling required ?

2007-11-20 Thread Herve Autret
Hi there, I'm new again in LyX, currently 1.5.1 under Linux. I've been trying using it years ago, but I gave up because of difficulties in maintaining documents, especially when formulas had to be edited, as far as I can remember. Importing to and from LaTeX was quite poor, too. I've tried

Re: Is uninstalling required ?

2007-11-20 Thread Herve Autret
Hi, I wrote : should I type make uninstall in Lyx-1.5.1 before make install in 1.5.2, or just make install in the most recent source tree ? I've uninstalled 1.5.1 (in case of...) and installed 1.5.2. LyX-1.5.2 can't compile tex files, either. It hooks in an endless waiting, as it forks(?)

Re: Is uninstalling required ?

2007-11-20 Thread Richard Heck
Herve Autret wrote: Hi, I wrote : should I type make uninstall in Lyx-1.5.1 before make install in 1.5.2, or just make install in the most recent source tree ? I've uninstalled 1.5.1 (in case of...) and installed 1.5.2. Always a good idea. I've seen problems from this. LyX-1.5.2 can't

Is uninstalling required ?

2007-11-20 Thread Herve Autret
Hi there, I'm new again in LyX, currently 1.5.1 under Linux. I've been trying using it years ago, but I gave up because of difficulties in maintaining documents, especially when formulas had to be edited, as far as I can remember. Importing to and from LaTeX was quite poor, too. I've tried

Re: Is uninstalling required ?

2007-11-20 Thread Herve Autret
Hi, I wrote : should I type make uninstall in Lyx-1.5.1 before make install in 1.5.2, or just make install in the most recent source tree ? I've uninstalled 1.5.1 (in case of...) and installed 1.5.2. LyX-1.5.2 can't compile tex files, either. It hooks in an endless waiting, as it forks(?)

Re: Is uninstalling required ?

2007-11-20 Thread Richard Heck
Herve Autret wrote: Hi, I wrote : should I type make uninstall in Lyx-1.5.1 before make install in 1.5.2, or just make install in the most recent source tree ? I've uninstalled 1.5.1 (in case of...) and installed 1.5.2. Always a good idea. I've seen problems from this. LyX-1.5.2 can't