README file for the sparc-solaris-8 binary distribution of LyX 1.2.0 ====================================================== 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. 5) This binary was compiled with gcc-2.95.3 and xforms-0.88.1. The xforms-0.89.6 library would allow the user of the speeder graphics functions, but the key will not work with Solaris and that version of xforms. Because the LyX makefiles are not compatible with standard Solaris make, gnumake was used to build the binary. The insets library was created with the gnu version of ar, because the Solaris ar seg-faults on that library. 6) For questions relating specifically to this binary, please write . General questions about LyX or this version of LyX should go to the users or developers lists. 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.