Subject: Re: LyX-1.3.0 (pkgsrc/print/lyx) no longer useable!
To: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
From: Sung Nae Cho <sucho2@vt.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/04/2003 15:56:00
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 3:50 pm, Miguel Mendez wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:30:32 -0500
> Sung Nae Cho <sucho2@vt.edu> wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> > Am I the only one having this problem with Lyx-1.3.0?  I compile
> > Lyx-1.3.0 from pkgsrc and it installs.  But, when I try to open my
> > files, it no longer opens.  It abruptly fails by giving error that it
> > couldn't run the conversion script!  Maybe due to sudden change to
> > teTeX2 with lyx-1.3.0?  Thank you.
>
> Looks like the conversion script needs python, which isn't a dependency
> of either Lyx or teTeX. Installing lang/python22 and doing `ln -s
> python2.2 python' in /usr/pkg/bin has fixed it for me.
>
> Cheers,

Good evening, Mr. Mendez.

Thank you for the info.  Hopefully that will fix the problem on my home 
computer.  And, maybe a good idea to add python in pkgsrc/print/lyx as 
dependency.

Yours sincerely,
S. N. Cho,
Tuesday, Mar. 04, 2003.

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Sung N. Cho
Department of Physics
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Computational Nanoscience Lab, 222 Robeson Hall
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435
United States of America

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