installing Lyx

Submitted by mepisq on Tue, 09/25/2007 - 14:21. Install Software
Posts: 4

Hello from a new user, quite capable with computers, but inexperienced in Linux.

I need to install LyX 1.5.1, which is my text processing workhorse. The built in repositories provide an old version (1.4.3) which cannot process newer files. I found a 1.5.1 .deb package, but it requires a libc6 >2.4 and latex-xft-fonts, which I could not find. If I can't install LyX I'll have to go with a different distribution.

What's my best course of action?
Thanks!

Not sure where your problem

Submitted by Jerry Bond on Tue, 09/25/2007 - 14:45.
Posts: 305

The dapper i386 version on this page:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.1/

installed without problem on 6.5 here. But it won't run b/c of this error:

Quote:

lyx: error while loading shared libraries: libAiksaurus-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Didn't chase that down, but since it is different from yours I am wondering what your details are.

Mine wouldn't install

Submitted by mepisq on Tue, 09/25/2007 - 14:47.
Posts: 4

Mine wouldn't install because of the dependencies (libc6; latex-xft-fonts). How do I get those?

This is what I get

Submitted by Jerry Bond on Tue, 09/25/2007 - 14:54.
Posts: 305

Quote:

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libaiksaurus-1.2-0c2a:
libaiksaurus-1.2-0c2a depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6); however:
Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.6-0ubuntu20.5.
libaiksaurus-1.2-0c2a depends on libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-12); however:
Version of libgcc1 on system is 1:4.0.3-1ubuntu5.
libaiksaurus-1.2-0c2a depends on libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-12); however:
Version of libstdc++6 on system is 4.0.3-1ubuntu5.
libaiksaurus-1.2-0c2a depends on libaiksaurus-1.2-data; however:
Package libaiksaurus-1.2-data is not installed.

I am not an expert here, but I go through them one at a time, using Google or Debian search (looking for a Dapper package for MEPIS 6.5). Other people on this forum know much more about this stuff than I...

mepisq, what version of

Submitted by johnboy68 on Wed, 09/26/2007 - 04:56.
Posts: 53

mepisq,

what version of MEPIS are you running?

I'm running the latest

Submitted by mepisq on Wed, 09/26/2007 - 07:47.
Posts: 4

I'm running the latest beta5.

I tried to get the packages from sid, but the upgraded libc6 threatened to break the system, so I stopped.

Have You INSTALLED Mepis?

Submitted by Jon Du Quesne on Wed, 09/26/2007 - 10:36.
Posts: 5513

Mepisq, have you INSTALLED the beta 5 of Mepis 7, or are you running from the Live CD. Because you're not going to be able to install additional software until after Mepis 7 has been installed on the hard drive.

Jon

The ability to comfortably use a computer is directly proportional to desire to listen, learn, and experiment, and is inversely proportional to the fear, anger, and stubbornness that you show.

Not only have I installed

Submitted by mepisq on Wed, 09/26/2007 - 13:57.
Posts: 4

Not only have I installed Mepis 7 beta 5, but indeed I have INSTALLED it. What prevented a successful LyX installation was, in fact, a package dependency problem. Do you Jon, have any suggestion?

Each one of these package

Submitted by EnigmaOne on Thu, 09/27/2007 - 10:22.
Posts: 1634

Each one of these package failures is due to the presence of an ubuntu package--which is an issue I've wrestled with before.

You can try to edit the dependency list, in the installation candidate, to get around some of those; however, I'm thinking that we're going to have to wait until all the ubuntu references have been purged from the distro before things like this go away for good.

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