README file for the binary distribution of LyX 1.0.1 for Sun-Solaris ==================================================================== This binary distribution was built on Sun-Solaris 2.5.1 and should run on Sun-Solaris 2.6 too. It is built from lyx-1.0.1. Please read the file README for general information on LyX. To use this binary distribution of LyX, please follow these steps: 1) Unpack the distribution in the directory /usr/local (if you unpack it in a different place, please read the note below) # cd /usr/local ; gunzip -c /tmp/lyx-1.0.1.Solaris.tar.gz | tar xf - You need at least gunzip to unpack the tar file and two additional shared libraries (for XForms 0.88 and Xpm 4.10), because of this version of lyx is dynamically linked against two libraries commonly not installed on Solaris systems: + libforms.so (XForms library) + libXpm.so (XPixmap library) If you miss one of them ask your sys-admin if it is installed elsewhere or download the additionally tar file SolarisTools.tar.Z, unpack it in your home and add the directory to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH or ask the sys-admin to install them in /usr/openwin/lib. 2) Configure LyX for you system by executing cd share/lyx ; ./configure Note that LyX depends on a recent and working LaTeX-Installation. Ask your sys-admin where it is installed and to install it if not already done. 3) Make sure that the directory bin/ is in your path. For example, if you unpacked the distribution in /usr/local, your PATH environment variable should contain "/usr/local/bin". 4) If you want to use reLyX, the LaTeX-to-LyX translator, you will have to edit the first line of the script, which should read #!/usr/local/bin/perl if you have perl installed as /usr/local/bin/perl. Note that reLyX requires at least perl version 5.002. That's it. Happy LyXing! Stephan Witt If you did not unpack the distribution in /usr/local ---------------------------------------------------- LyX can perfectly work in this situation, except for one thing: as distributed, LyX expects to find its internationalization files in the directory /usr/local/share/locale. If you unpacked the distribution in directory /foo, you should set the environment variable LYX_LOCALEDIR to point to /foo/share/locale as follows: LYX_LOCALEDIR=/foo/share/locale (if you use sh or bash as shell) or setenv LYX_LOCALEDIR /foo/share/locale (for csh or tcsh) Note that, if if you do not have any interest in having LyX display its messages in other languages than english, you can safely skip this step. If you are the sys-admin and have to install SolarisTools.tar.Z --------------------------------------------------------------- SolarisTools.tar.Z contains gzip,gunzip and the two additional shared libraries used by LyX. The following steps assumes the presence of SolarisTools.tar.Z in /tmp. 1) Check the contents of the tar file. # uncompress -c /tmp/SolarisTools.tar | tar tf - gzip gunzip lib/libforms.so.0.88 lib/libforms.so lib/libXpm.so.4.10 lib/libXpm.so # 2) Extract gzip,gunzip from the tar file. You have to decide were to place this stuff. The rehash command is handy if you're using a csh and want to use gzip or gunzip in the same session. # cd /usr/local/bin or # cd /usr/bin # uncompress -c /tmp/SolarisTools.tar | tar xvf - gzip gunzip x gzip, 72692 bytes, 142 tape blocks gunzip linked to gzip # rehash # 3) Extract the libs from the tar file. # cd /usr/openwin # uncompress -c /tmp/SolarisTools.tar | tar xvf - lib x lib/libforms.so.0.88, 799676 bytes, 1562 tape blocks x lib/libforms.so symbolic link to libforms.so.0.88 x lib/libXpm.so.4.10, 87528 bytes, 171 tape blocks x lib/libXpm.so symbolic link to libXpm.so.4.10 # If you are the sys-admin and have to install LaTeX -------------------------------------------------- Sorry, I can't give you any assistance here. You have to look for help in the WWW/Usenet.