The following files are available: lyx-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm ...................... For Redhat 6.2 and xforms-0.88 lyx-1.2.0-1rh73-xforms089.i386.rpm ........ For Redhat 7.3 and xforms-0.89 lyx-1.2.0-1suse8.i386.rpm ................. For SuSE 8.0 (and xforms-0.89) Note that Redhat-6.2 uses broken compilers (egcs) and must be updated to at least gcc-2.95.1 to work with LyX. Use the following RPMs from rpmfind (in directory ftp://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/contrib/libc6/i386) gcc-2.95.1-3.i386.rpm gcc-c++-2.95.1-3.i386.rpm Or you can regenerate the RPM for your system using the SRPM: ftp://contrib.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/SRPMS/gcc-2.95.1-3.src.rpm 1) Read the xforms-README file for important information about xforms and LyX. 2) The default installation prefix is `/usr'. If you want to change this, just specify a different prefix using the `--prefix' flag to rpm. For example, rpm -Uvh --prefix /opt lyx-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm installs with /opt prefix. 3) The tex related files are installed in a place that tetex can find them on a default RedHat or SuSE system. If you have a different TeX distribution or teTeX is installed by hand (without RPM) you may need to move some files around and run "texhash" In some cases, you may need to install using the `--nodeps' option, like rpm -Uvh --nodeps lyx-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm 4) My system is a RedHat Linux/GNU 6.2. If you have problems running the binary rpm (e.g. you have an older RH system with older C library), then you should have no problem compiling from the src.rpm. To do this, do rpm --rebuild lyx-1.2.0-1.src.rpm cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 rpm -Uvh lyx-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm (or perhaps in the last step you need to use the `--nodeps' and/or the `--oldpackage' options; see 3) above). Note that building lyx requires about 35M free space on your disk. ---Kayvan A. Sylvan The SuSE rpm and srpm are just slightly modified to fit the different naming conventions for the latex packages on SuSE systems. The rpm should work on SuSE-7.x systems as well, if not, rebuild the SuSE SRPM package. ---Moritz Moeller-Herrmann Thanks to: * Mate Wierdl who did the initial work on the RPMS * Milos Komarcevic for the RH 7.3 RPM.