README file for the binary distribution of LyX 1.0.4 ====================================================== 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) 2) Configure LyX for you system by executing cd share/lyx ; ./configure 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 ! 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. NB - Versions of IRIX less than 6.5 will only work with this binary distribution if you set the environment variable _RLD_ARGS to -ignore_unresolved, in an identical way to that described above for LYX_LOCALEDIR. This is a version with static linking against Xforms. It should therefore work on most SGI systems, as I believe Xpm is installed on most SGI's by default. A binary which has dynamic linking against XForms should be available from ftp://ftp.lyx.org This distribution created by Steve Holden . Please contact me if you have any problems.